The National Committee for Quality Assurance's The State of Health Care Quality: 2006
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Data brief (Commonwealth Fund)
- Author(s):
- Schoenbaum, Stephen C., author Holmgren, Alyssa L., author
- Contributor(s):
- Commonwealth Fund. Commission on a High Performance Health System. Commonwealth Fund.
- Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, November 2006
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Health Benefit Plans, Employee Quality Indicators, Health Care Quality of Health Care -- trends Diffusion of Innovation Forecasting Health Maintenance Organizations Preferred Provider Organizations Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- The National Committee for Quality Assurance's 2006 report on the performance of U.S. health plans found overall improvement in HEDIS clinical quality measures for those plans that collect and publicly report performance data. Improvements, moreover, were broad-based. There are several lessons for those pursuing high performance of the U.S. health system as a whole. Most importantly, the results show there is hope; performance on some HEDIS measures is now approaching 100 percent. Diffusion of measurement has been slow, but steady. The nation needs more and better measures of performance, mechanisms for setting standards of performance, and tools, such as performance-based contracts, for ensuring that improvement occurs.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (5 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101309057 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101309057