Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program: Maximizing Potential (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780309101080)

Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program is the second book in the new Pathways to Quality Health Care series. Focusing on performance improvement, it considers the history, role, and effectiveness of the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) program and its potential to promote quality improvement within a changing health care delivery environment that includes standardized performance measures and new data collection and reporting requirements. This book carefully examines the QIOs that serve every state as well as the national program that guides and supports them. In addition, it highlights the important roles that a national program with private organizations in each state can play in promoting higher quality care. Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program looks closely at the technical assistance role of the QIO program and the need to encourage and support providers to improve their performance. By providing an in-depth assessment of the federal experience with quality improvement and recommendations for program improvement, this book helps point the way for those who strive to create higher quality and better value in health care. Intended for multiple audiences, Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program is essential reading for members of Congress, the federal executive branch, the QIOs, health care providers and clinicians, and stakeholder groups.

Author: Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Redesigning Health Insuranc
ISBN-10: 0309101085
ISBN-13: 9780309101080
Publisher: National Academies Press
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2006
Pages: 542
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.18lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.38w x 1.33d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 12/01/2006 pg. 66