For a financial performance measure to be good, it should generally rise when good things happen and decline when bad things happen. And it should motivate high-quality decision-making. This may seem ...

We discuss our concerns about tying physician performance to CG-CAHPS scores and suggest an alternative approach to facilitate translation of service excellence into clinical practice. The Affordable ...

Performance measures must align with portfolio use and features. Avoid Sharpe and similar ratios due to flaws; consider alternatives like trimmed alpha, median returns, and value at risk. CAGR is ...

Hybrid? Fully remote? Never left? Regardless of how your team operates now or in the future, the pandemic changed how companies need to manage their people. There is this common notion: What is focal ...

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 ...

Take advantage of MethodTimer.Fody to measure the execution speed of your APIs and keep your ASP.NET Core applications running smoothly. In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, let’s not kid ...

Performance measurement – if done right – can be a core activity to move the health care system to higher value for the American public, while rewarding health professionals and health care ...

Measuring the performance of real-time digital signal processing code is essential. But whether you're using a simulator or hardware, it can be a headache to get accurate, repeatable performance ...

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 ...

Using the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS), the National Committee for Quality Assurance partners with more than 90% of the nation’s managed care organizations to collect, audit ...

The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) have provided an update to their clinical performance and quality measures for adults with heart failure (HF) to bring ...

It’s difficult to accurately measure the performance of maintenance workers because there are so many variables. Consider what happens if you reduce performance measurement to merely counting ...