Quality of care and technology.
Hospitals are strengthening their attention to measuring the quality of the care they provide, because HMOs and other payers for care are insisting on documentation of quality. Also, new techniques for improving quality at the individual-patient level are proving to have a greater impact than traditional quality assurance (QA) activities. As they strengthen their QA programs, hospitals should add measures dealing with the use of technology, both to improve the quality of care and to reduce costs.
D005161:Facility Regulation and Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006761:Hospitals; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D014481:United States