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Dec 7, 2017

People like to say things like "If you've seen one healthcare system, then you've seen one healthcare system" or "every community is different". That may be true on some level, but these are really just  excuses to keep doing things the same old way.  In fact, most communities are exactly the same when it comes to...


Nov 30, 2017

On this episode, Rick Moore, CIO at NCQA, joins us for a discussion about what's next for digital quality measurement. Rick likes to call this Digital Quality Measures 2.0 and you can see it coming to life in NCQA's eMeasure Certification (eMC) program.  The program aims to take burden away from health plans and...


Oct 26, 2017

They say that civilization advances by extending the number of important things we can do without thinking about them. To me, that's the promise of technology and it's particularly true when it comes to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Still, not everyone sees it that way. Some worry that they'll be...


Oct 10, 2017

On this episode, we talk with John D'Amore. John is Founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer at Diameter Health and has been working on Quality Measures in healthcare since the early 2000s. Yup, pre-EMR quality measures!

John takes us on a fascinating journey from paper based quality measurement (see RHQDAPU... at...


Sep 28, 2017

Quality...

What does that mean in healthcare? How can it be measured? Is it the same for everyone? Who gets to decide?

These are just a few of the incredibly difficult questions that the healthcare industry is grappling with as we enter the age of value-based care. The decisions we make about quality in the coming years...