Data quality in the modern economy, where data-driving action is critical to business success, can no longer be perceived as mere tech detail. Business leaders increasingly use data to make strategic ...

The evolution of health care quality metrics over the preceding decades illustrates an enduring commitment toward enhancing patient outcomes, refining the structure of health care delivery, and ...

In modern organizations, data is everywhere. Dashboards update in real time. Reports are automated. Leadership teams review KPIs weekly. Yet despite all this visibility, business operations often ...

Ensuring excellent quality and outcomes is the essential goal of medical care. To achieve it, a multitude of quality metrics have been added to clinicians’ work. They include things such as ...

When you’re ready to scale your company, bringing the right people on board is critical to success. Because there’s usually such a razor-thin margin of error in ...

Agile metrics are essential for tracking speed, efficiency and quality in software development. We all know that what gets measured gets improved. However, Agile metrics are often misunderstood, ...

The system at one of UTMB Health's hospitals encouraged behavioral change among providers that led to reduced infections and ...

Gastroenterologists and endoscopists are beginning to focus more on quality metrics to provide evidence-based treatment for patients. “From a quality standpoint, measuring outcomes is important ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

It’s no secret that today’s healthcare system revolves around metrics. Specifically, quality metrics are increasingly used to ...