Individuals seeking hospital ratings are likely to get a wide range of information, depending on the site they use.

The 2015 National Impact Assessment of Quality Measures Report found that 95 percent of 119 publicly reported performance rates across seven quality reporting programs showed improvement during the study period with 35 percent of the measures classified as high performing.

Redwood Shores, Calif. – February 25, 2015 - Healthcare organizations are increasingly focused on streamlining data to meet a multitude of challenges, from regulatory compliance and reimbursement management to delivering quality care to their patients across the care continuum.

Boston, Massachusetts, February 17, 2015 – Press Ganey announced today it has signed a multi-year agreement with Boston Children’s Hospital, a leading pediatric hospital, to capture and assess patient and family experience data through the newly created Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (Child HCAHPS) hospital survey.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has named DJ Patil, PhD, as deputy chief technology officer for data policy and chief data scientist.

The largest clinical laboratory in New Mexico is looking to play a larger role in population health management by introducing physician and patient portals to provide community-based longitudinal records that tie together lab data from across health systems.

The Joint Commission announced today the appointment of David W. Baker, MD, FACP, MPH, to the position of executive vice president for the Division of Healthcare Quality Evaluation. In this senior leadership position, Dr. Baker will oversee the Departments of Quality Measurement, Health Services Research and Standards and Survey Methods.

Early medical image archiving was focused on one main goal: the display of images. No easy feat, especially as storage requirements grew and physicians began to expect images on-the-go through their tablets or phones, but the mission of sharing images remained clear.