The Nielsen Company has entered into an alliance with Carrier IQ to measure the performance of mobile services, networks, and devices. Together, the partners say they will deliver critical insights ...

The quality care opportunities model can lead to increased utility and validity of current measurement tools and more accurate assessment of physician performance. Accurately measuring the quality of ...

Quality measures showed large, though mixed, differences between Medicare fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage programs. Medicare Advantage plans scored substantially better (4-16 percentage points; ...

Over the past several decades, an appealing idea rapidly gained popularity: The government could advance a health care system that rewarded the quality of care rather than the volume of care. Medicare ...

The American health care system, including the cancer care system, is under pressure to improve patient outcomes and lower the cost of care. Government payers have articulated an interest in ...

The committee’s selection of performance measures began with identifying leading performance measure sets 1 and classifying these measures within nationally endorsed frameworks for quality assessment ...

Many companies have successfully transformed their manufacturing, R&D, and other business functions, improving their performance while stripping out cost. Yet far fewer have optimized their service ...

Alexandra Twin has 15+ years of experience as an editor and writer, covering financial news for public and private companies. Amanda Jackson has expertise in personal finance, investing, and social ...

In business, measurement is half-way to performance improvement. Assessing supplier performance is a difficult task. This article overviews price, cost and quality supplier performance measurement ...