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  2. Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set - Wikipedia

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    As stated in a 2006 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, "HEDIS measures focus largely on processes of care"; [14] the strengths of process measures include the facts that they "reflect care that patients actually receive," thereby leading to "buy-in from providers," and that they are "directly actionable for quality improvement activities" [14 ...

  3. Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership - Wikipedia

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    Their purpose is to engage clinicians in systematic evaluation of their clinical practice against standards (often set by NICE), and to encourage improvement in the quality of care. This programme is gradually being extended to other areas of healthcare, working with clinical, patient and professional advisory groups.

  4. Healthcare in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The dashboard captures the access, quality and cost of care; overall population health; and health system dynamics (e.g., workforce, innovation, health information technology). Included measures align with other system performance measuring activities including the HHS Strategic Plan, [ 166 ] the Government Performance and Results Act , Healthy ...

  5. Healthcare Quality Improvement Act - Wikipedia

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    The Healthcare Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA) of the United States was introduced by Congressman Ron Wyden from Oregon. ( Title 42 of the United States Code , Sections 11101 - 11152) It followed a federal antitrust suit by a surgeon against an Astoria hospital and members of its clinic in which he claimed antitrust actions were ...

  6. OECD Better Life Index - Wikipedia

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    The platform consists of a dashboard, that provides data and insights into key indicators - measuring areas such as wellbeing, environmental quality, quality of public services and security - alongside an interactive tool Your Better Life Index (BLI), [3] which encourages citizens to create their own indexes by ranking each of the indicators ...

  7. Health care reform - Wikipedia

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    The five control knobs for health-sector reform. In "Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity," [2] Marc Roberts, William Hsiao, Peter Berman, and Michael Reich of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health aim to provide decision-makers with tools and frameworks for health care system reform.

  8. Health equity - Wikipedia

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    Poor health outcomes appear to be an effect of economic inequality across a population. Nations and regions with greater economic inequality show poorer outcomes in life expectancy, [31]: Figure 1.1 mental health, [31]: Figure 5.1 drug abuse, [31]: Figure 5.3 obesity, [31]: Figure 7.1 educational performance, teenage birthrates, and ill health due to violence.

  9. Office for Health Improvement and Disparities - Wikipedia

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    The Office focuses on reducing the burdens of preventable illness and disease, and of health inequalities, on society and the healthcare system. [3] It explores how incentives and rewards can encourage healthier behaviour, with an explicit focus on the work of the Health Promotion Board in Singapore.