quality-improvement

In the Southeast, 70% of nearly a half-million patients whose doctors participate in a South Carolina-based quality-improvement network had reduced their high blood pressure to medically recommended levels.

A Long-Awaited Advance in the War on Blood Pressure Ron Winslow 2011

Egan , a blood-pressure expert at Medical University of South Carolina, in Charleston, and senior medical director of the multi-state quality-improvement network that is attacking the problem.

A Long-Awaited Advance in the War on Blood Pressure Ron Winslow 2011

The insurance industry's lobbyists have tried to get the insurance commissioners to let them count just about all of their administrative functions as quality-improvement activities.

Wendell Potter: Thank You, UnitedHealth Group. Your Jaw-Dropping Profit Announcement May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered. Wendell Potter 2010

The insurance industry's lobbyists have tried to get the insurance commissioners to let them count just about all of their administrative functions as quality-improvement activities.

Wendell Potter: Thank You, UnitedHealth Group. Your Jaw-Dropping Profit Announcement May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered. Wendell Potter 2010

The researchers said the checklist program was the only large-scale quality-improvement initiative in the area during the study period, making it likely that it was responsible for much if not all of the observed benefit.

Simple hospital checklist may save lives 2011

It would also help pioneer new payment and quality-improvement methods that could set the standard for private plans and use its lower administrative costs and bargaining power to better control health care costs.

Wonk Room » Media Buys What The Health Insurance Industry Is Selling 2009

The insurance industry's lobbyists have tried to get the insurance commissioners to let them count just about all of their administrative functions as quality-improvement activities.

Wendell Potter: Thank You, UnitedHealth Group. Your Jaw-Dropping Profit Announcement May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered. Wendell Potter 2010

The insurance industry's lobbyists have tried to get the insurance commissioners to let them count just about all of their administrative functions as quality-improvement activities.

Wendell Potter: Thank You, UnitedHealth Group. Your Jaw-Dropping Profit Announcement May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered. Wendell Potter 2010

He's also using the Six Sigma quality-improvement process to improve efficiency.

CEOs Hiring Again, But Cautiously Dana Mattioli 2010

Assurant Health wrote that quality-improvement efforts include evaluating medical bills for proper coding, creating personal health records, and making information available about the cost and quality of individual health-care providers.

Insurers seek to define wide range of expenses as benefiting consumers 2010