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When Quality Metrics Harm Quality
To improve accountability in healthcare, physicians are continually tasked with checklists to ensure quality. But where is that leading to?
With the mantra of value-based care, providers are increasingly being tasked with checklists that ensure quality care is being delivered to the patient. As the movement toward linking reimbursement with value gains momentum, experts worry that this increased administrative burden on providers might harm, not improve, healthcare quality.
In the current issue of JAMA, David Blumenthal, MD, MPP; and J. Michael McGinnis, MD, MPP, write, "The budding enthusiasm for performance measurement, however, has begun to create serious problems for public health and for health care. Not only are many measures imperfect, but they are proliferating at an astonishing rate, increasing the burden and blurring the ability to focus on issues most important to better health and health care."
Read an associated blog on The Incidental Economist here: http://bit.ly/1AluBNP
Examining Low-Value Cancer Care Trends Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 25th 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the April 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on the rates of low-value cancer care services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Oncology Onward: A Conversation With Penn Medicine's Dr Justin Bekelman
December 19th 2023Justin Bekelman, MD, director of the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, sat with our hosts Emeline Aviki, MD, MBA, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, for our final episode of 2023 to discuss the importance of collaboration between academic medicine and community oncology and testing innovative cancer care delivery in these settings.
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