The Crushing Cost Of Tracking Healthcare Quality

One Hospital’s Story.

As the United States shifts from prioritizing fee-for-service reimbursement to value-based care, measuring the quality of care is becoming increasingly important.

However, within our complex healthcare system, tracking quality is no easy feat.

The following article by Forbes calls for standardization in quality metrics. It describes how claims data, chart-abstracted data, and patient survey data are used to analyze quality, but how difficult, time-consuming, and costly it is for hospitals to make sense of the results from these different sources.

Learn more here.