Believe it when you see it. Maybe our Pres has some redeeming qualities.
>From 1967 to 2006 to get started is better than never..../tl
NYT:
"Employers Push White House to Disclose Medicare Data
E-MailPrint Single Page Save By ROBERT PEAR
Published: April 11, 2006
WASHINGTON, April 10 - The White House is clashing with the nation's largest
employers over their request for huge amounts of government data on the cost
and quality of health care provided by doctors around the country."
"The Medicare data would be a gold mine of information," said Maria M.
Ghazal, director of public policy at the Business Roundtable. Medicare
handles more than a billion claims a year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/12/opinion/12wed4.html?th&emc=th
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/11/washington/11medicare.html
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> Subject: [Hardhats-members] Computers and Quality - the Journey
<SNIP>
> In 1967 I visited a pharmacist and watched him completing forms. After
> learning the forms were for Medicaid payment, I thought "My God! That's a
> lot information. Someday, someone is going to use it to measure how we
> practice." It's been a long time and not much has changed. The term is
> benchmark. For years I compared (contrasted?) medical standards with pilot
> standards. Today we are just starting to recognize our similarities and
> use
> effective techniques to improve quality.
> http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/320/7237/745
>
> The journey is begun. Let us hope it will continue with a candid look at
> our
> weaknesses and errors. Requiring perfection before we begin the journey
> discounts the value of learning we acquire along the way.
>
> Thanks,
>
> thurman
>
>
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