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Managed Care
September 1999 |
Headlines on Deadline... Healthcare industry news briefs.   |
Managed Care
June 2001 |
'Quality of care' in eye of beholder The AMA, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance have crafted a common set of performance measures for management of adult diabetes... |
Managed Care
April 2001
Michael Levin-Epstein |
PPO Performance Hard To Gauge; Comparisons to HMOs Not Reliable It's long been said that PPOs, by their varied nature, can't be held to the same quality yardsticks as HMOs. Yet, in time, something will have to suffice... |
Managed Care
October 2000 |
For Most States, Medical Error Reporting Is Uncertain Science Other industries have figured out how to collect, analyze, and use error data to prevent catastrophes and drive continuous-quality-improvement programs. Health care is only now beginning that process... |
Managed Care
August 2002 |
NCQA: Law Prevents Weighing Racial, Ethnic Care Disparities Public policy must change before the National Committee for Quality Improvement can insist that health plans collect and report data that can be used to highlight disparities in care among racial and ethnic groups, according to an NCQA spokesman. |
Managed Care
September 2007
Martin Sipkoff |
Go Carefully When Measuring Quality Gauging and rewarding good work in health care is a noble goal with potentially negative consequences. |
Managed Care
April 2000 |
With AMAP Gone, Quality Judgments In Hands of Others When the American Medical Association shut down its physician accreditation program, AMAP, last month, several physician leaders expressed concern that the profession had lost its best chance to demonstrate efficient, high-quality care.... |
T.H.E. Journal
June 2000 |
Education Schools Join in Commitment to Technology Equipping teachers with the skills necessary to prepare their students for technology jobs is a key component of President Clinton's efforts to bridge the Digital Divide.... |
Managed Care
July 2003
MargaretAnn Cross |
Money Pit: Is Accreditation Always Worth the Cost? Some plans swear by the benefits of obtaining an "excellent." Others say that customers care much more about cost. |
Managed Care
November 1999
Margaret E. O'Kane |
Quality-Measurement Organizations Look Beyond HMO and POS Plans Now that the hard part -- forging quality-measurement systems for HMOs and point-of-service plans -- has been done, the next step is to adapt these programs to the rest of the health care industry.... |
Managed Care
December 2007 |
Strong Support for Transparency, But Small Effect Expected on Costs Three quarters of health care leaders believe increased transparency -- the public reporting of quality and pricing by name of hospital, physician practice, or health care provider -- is essential to improve the performance of the United States' health care system, according to a survey. |
Managed Care
November 1999 |
NCQA-AMA Plan Would Reduce Paper Duplication ...NCQA will allow health plans to use data from AMA's American Medical Accreditation Program to satisfy NCQA's credentialing standards.... |
Managed Care
September 1999 |
Physicians Seen As Next in Line For NCQA Review The National Committee for Quality Assurance says it will begin an accreditation program for medical groups two years from now.... |
Inc.
January 2007
Patricia Seybold |
Ask Patricia Seybold Is it a good idea to set up a customer forum on a company website? |
Insurance & Technology
April 2, 2004
Anthony O'Donnell |
Jopp Moves to URAC While at the Health Insurance Association of America, CIO Devin Jopp saw his position shift from an information capacity to a more operational capacity, as exemplified by his secondary role as COO of the HIAA's business programs. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2006 |
Design software released for microwave antenna, radar, and radome test MI Technologies released version 3.3 of its MI-3000 data acquisition and analysis software. New features enhance microwave antenna, radar, and radome test and measurement acquisition, plotting, and data-file analysis. |
Managed Care
February 2004 |
Headlines On Deadline ... Developing quality benchmarks for consumer-directed health plans will be the mission of a committee launched by the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission, which is still primarily known by its original acronym, URAC. |
Managed Care
May 2003
Martin Sipkoff |
Working Together on the Medical Side Partly because of employers' demands, health plans are starting to cooperate in ways that improve care. |
Search Engine Watch
November 1, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Web Analytics, Demystified Measurement is a crucial part of a successful search marketing campaign, but understanding and using web analytics tools can be daunting. A new book demystifies the process, showing you how to implement your own effective measurement strategies. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Sep/Oct 2009
Andrew Dick |
Understanding Federal Healthcare Laws Commercial real estate professionals who work with medical office development must be aware of the federal healthcare fraud and abuse laws. |
Insurance & Technology
June 14, 2005
Wendy Toth |
CIGNA Takes Bite Out of Claims CIGNA Dental has teamed with Post-N-Track Corp. to provide a new Web solution for the submission of claims. |
InternetNews
December 22, 2003
Pamela Parker |
NetRatings Goes Down Under to Expand Site Analytics NetRatings is acquiring RedSheriff of Australia for more than $12 million. NetRatings made its name in panel-based Web audience measurement, but the technique often disagrees with site-based Internet audience measurement methods like RedSheriff's. Now, NetRatings may be able to reconcile the results. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 18, 2014
Carmen Nobel |
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care? A collaboration between Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School seeks to promote already proven innovations that could increase the quality and lower the cost of health care. |
Managed Care
January 2004
Martin Sipkoff |
Transparency Called Key To Uniting Cost Control, Quality Improvement NCQA President Margaret O'Kane and a panel of clinically oriented administrators call for emphasis on making the best care financially attractive to physicians, plans, and employers. |
Inc.
July 2008
Jason Del Rey |
Creating Customer Hangouts You can set up an online customer community on the cheap with standalone applications, hosted software, and a savvy tech team. |
Managed Care
April 2002 |
NCQA To Judge Plans on Drug Monitoring Health plans could soon be required to develop systems to prevent drug interactions, as well as systems to monitor drug recalls and FDA alerts, under proposed accreditation standards issued recently by the National Committee for Quality Assurance... |
National Defense
July 2008
Alan L. Gropman |
Out-of-Control Healthcare Spending Straining Budget Controlling costs and expanding access are perhaps the greatest challenges facing the U.S. healthcare industry in the first quarter of the 21st century. |
Bank Systems & Technology
August 12, 2009
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Retail Payments Risk Forum Collaborates to Fight Payments Fraud The Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank's anti-fraud cooperative is designed to bring together thought leaders in the payments space to improve security. |
Nursing Management
October 2011
Edna Cadmus |
Your role in redesigning healthcare We need to rethink how we provide care and to understand the interconnectedness and the structure of healthcare by looking at it as a whole vs. the sum of its parts. As leaders we need to view the evidence as we rethink healthcare together. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2010
Tom Gardner |
Hey, Financial Service Firms: What Are You Hiding? Banks, brokerages, and mutual funds are called out for keeping their clients in the dark. |
JavaWorld
February 2001
Jean-Pierre Dube |
Printing in Java, Part 4 In Part 4 of the 'Printing in Java' series, you will begin coding the print framework. The author explains the foundation of the print framework and presents the code for the measurement system, the document class, the page class, and the print object class... |
Managed Care
May 2001
John Carroll |
Two Accrediting Organizations Prepare To Issue DM Standards It's probable that one will become the dominant judge: NCQA or URAC. After it happens, will vendors undergo less scrutiny by individual plans? |
Entrepreneur
June 2005
Gwen Moran |
Traffic Signals Marketers can certainly get confused by all the web-traffic measurement lingo. New guidelines could give a clearer measure of web traffic. |
