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Enhancing Quality Improvement Adoption in US Nursing Homes 

Briggs Healthcare

To begin seeking ways to address these issues, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) conducted a 90-day innovation project to identify key activities to increase adoption of effective quality improvement practices in US nursing homes.

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Bill Smith: The Motorola Engineer who invented Six Sigma

Life Qi

In this article we are going to look at Bill Smith, another Quality Improvement (QI) hero – and sometimes known as the ‘father of Six Sigma’.

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NCQA Launches Virtual Care Accreditation Pilot

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has initiated the Virtual Care Accreditation Pilot program, a significant step in developing a quality improvement framework for organizations offering care through telehealth or digital platforms.

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NCQA Launches Virtual Care Accreditation Program

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has introduced a groundbreaking new program designed to evaluate and accredit organizations offering virtual care services.

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What We Learned from Our Virtual Care Accreditation Pilot

NCQA

NCQA’s Virtual Care Accreditation program provides a quality improvement framework for organizations that deliver primary care and/or urgent care through virtual modalities. In the program pilot, 18 organizations offered valuable input into the program’s development. Milibeth C.,

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NCQA Launches Race and Ethnicity Stratification Learning Network

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) today launched the Race and Ethnicity Stratification Learning Network, a free, interactive, online tool that offers data and best practices to help health plans improve how they collect race and ethnicity data on their enrollees.

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How to Improve Your VBP Scores and Boost Medicare Payments

Home Health Care

Since CMS standardized it in 2018, Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement program, or QAPI, has served as a guiding light for home-based care providers. The program is the process by which a home-based care provider measures its quality metrics.