The past decade has seen an unprecedented level of concern and action focused on improving the quality of American health care. Catalyzed in part by two Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports—To Err Is ...

Performance measurement systems are embedded within a web of institutional forces that shape their design, implementation and evolution. Regulatory requirements, professional norms and cultural ...

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CANNES, France—Relo Metrics and VideoAmp have officially launched Total Sports Performance, a measurement and attribution solution for the sports media ecosystem. Total Sports Performance delivers the ...

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Quality measurement is an important tool for incentivizing improvement in the quality of health care. Most quality measurement efforts do not explicitly target health equity. Although some measurement ...

The proliferation of diabetes quality measures in the US since the mid-1990s has increased the burden of measurement without commensurate improvements in the quality of care or health outcomes.

Analytics, at its core, is leveraging data for measuring and improving business outcomes. Management guru Peter Drucker once said, “What gets measured gets managed.” Basically, effectively measuring ...