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Dr Christine K. Cassel Talks Evolution of Standardized Healthcare Quality Measures
Since the National Quality Forum (NQF)'s birth in 1999, there have been 2 significant changes in the use of standardized healthcare quality measures, explains Christine K. Cassel, MD, president and chief executive officer of NQF.
Since the National Quality Forum (NQF)’s birth in 1999, there have been 2 significant changes in the use of standardized healthcare quality measures: increased demand for information by all parties in the health system and growth in payment as it pertains to measurements and value, explains Christine K. Cassel, MD, president and chief executive officer of NQF.
However, the challenge that comes with the proliferation of measures is that care no longer simply entails hospitals and doctors; Dr Cassel adds that care is a whole range of differing systems that makes evaluating each system and communicating from one part to the next even more so difficult.
“One of the things NQF has been devoting a lot of effort to is what we call alignment, bringing all of these measures together to make it possible to collect the data once, report the data once and use it for multiple purposes,” Dr Cassel says.
Dr Kathryn Lindley on Pregnancy-Related Cardiovascular Care Gaps and Training Initiatives
December 8th 2023Cardiologists need skills in risk assessment, contraception counseling, and hypertension management for pregnant patients, according to Kathryn Lindley, MD, FACC, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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Oncology Onward: A Conversation With Thyme Care CEO and Cofounder Robin Shah
October 2nd 2023Robin Shah, CEO of Thyme Care, which he founded in 2020 with Bobby Green, MD, president and chief medical officer, joins hosts Emeline Aviki, MD, MBA, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, to discuss his evolution as an entrepreneur in oncology care innovation and his goal of positively changing how patients experience the cancer system.
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Recent T1D Research Contradicts Common Assumptions About Patients
November 15th 2023Michael Fang, PhD, researcher and assistant professor in the division of Cardiovascular and Clinical Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University, discussed recent findings in the type 1 diabetes (T1D) space that may alter the way providers address diabetes diagnoses.
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