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October 29, 2012 | Program Result
B Lab expanded and improved the rating system it uses to certify B corporations, particularly in the areas of health and safety issues. B corporations have charters that require them to conduct business in a socially responsible manner.
September 4, 2012 | Program Result
Researchers for the Pacific Business Group on Health worked to develop an evidence-based method to score physicians on the quality of health care they provide and to develop a mechanism by which physicians could correct data on their performance.
September 28, 2011 | Program Result
The High-Value Health Care Project, an initiative of the Quality Alliance Steering Committee, promoted a comprehensive, uniform national approach to measuring the performance of the health care system, to foster transparency and improve quality.
December 12, 2011 | Program Result
Most of the seven health care organizations in this RWJF national program made "tremendous progress" in improving the quality of their care, however none reached the goal of organizational transformation to a fundamentally new health care model.
May 23, 2011 | Program Result
The Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project is a coalition of more than 50 leading employer, consumer and labor organizations that seeks to give consumers and health care purchasers a greater voice in deliberations over performance measures.
March 22, 2010 | Program Result
The National Qualify Forum (NQF) led an initiative with the goals of establishing performance and reporting mechanisms in ambulatory care, and identifying national priorities for health and health care.
March 21, 2009 | Program Result
Researchers conducted preliminary work to develop a standardized set of EHR-based quality performance measures.
July 1, 2006 | Program Result
The Dartmouth College Department of Economics and the Social Policy and Health Economics Research and Evaluation Institute (SPHERE) collaborated to develop more accurate measures of physician performance.
May 1, 2005 | Program Result
Kaiser Permanente's Institute for Health Policy held a conference to discuss how measures of clinical quality could be reorganized to improve quality of care by aligning the needs of health care purchasers with health care providers and insurers.
January 1, 2004 | Program Result
The Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project seeks to make information from standardized measures readily available to employers, consumers and other purchasers of health care so that they can select high-quality providers and treatments.