Weekly Roundup: Health care news and notes
April 3, 2015 · NCQA
Every Friday NCQA gives a rundown of some of the health care news stories from the past week. Here are some of our picks for this week:
- Identifying quality measures for home based primary and palliative care providers. [Health Affairs]
- MIT says cancer drug costs have outpaced quality increases. [Boston Business Journal]
- House overwhelmingly votes in favor of “DocFix” with 392 votes. [The Wall Street Journal]
- Breast biopsies leave room for doubt, study finds. [The New York Times]
- The State of Cancer Care in America, 2015: A Report by the American Society of Clinical Oncology. [Journal of Oncology Practice]
- Community-centered health homes: The next iteration of quality-based care. [Kevin MD]
- How does an ACO differ from the Patient-Centered Medical Home? [Health IT Analytics]
- Patient sharing and quality of care: measuring outcomes of care coordination using claims data. [National Center for Biotechnology Information]
