Quality Upgrade Aims To Reduce Health-Care Fees
- Topics:
- Health Insurance
- Tags:
- Benefits,
- Enterprise Software,
- Health Care,
- Healthcare,
- Human Resources,
- Software,
- Vertical Industries
- Source:
- Dow Jones & Company
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Overview: Major employers are putting pressure on health-care professionals to improve service quality in an effort to reduce costs. Employers and health-industry experts long have grappled with health-care choices, efficiency, and delivery and quality ratings. Quality is an elusive, difficult-to-measure commodity in health care. One person's quality of care is another's excessive treatment. Industry analysts cite three reasons for the difficulties in ascertaining health quality: The health-care market traditionally has focused on price. Until recently, providers have not been willing to share information outside the medical community and report data publicly. Health-care consumers often did not have access to enough current data to make informed decisions.
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Format: HTML | Size: 51KB | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 1
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