Hospital Quality Initiative (HQI)
CMS has several efforts in progress to provide hospital quality information to consumers and others and improve the care provided by the nation's hospitals. These initiatives build upon previous CMS and QIO strategies to identify illnesses and/or clinical conditions that affect Medicare beneficiaries in order to: promote the best medical practices associated with the targeted clinical disorders; prevent or reduce further instances of these selected clinical disorders; and prevent related complications. This page includes links to reports and other documents that describe in more detail these efforts that will result in reporting quality information on the cms.hhs.gov site in the Fall of 2003 and on medicare.gov in early 2005.
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The Specifications Manual for National Hospital Quality Measures is now available (09/15/2004).
The "National Voluntary Hospital Reporting Initiative (NVHRI)" will now be known as "Hospital Quality Alliance(HQA): Improving Care through Information". These changes will be reflected over the next few weeks. |
HQI Overview
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Connecticut Partnership
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The National Voluntary Hospital Reporting Initiative
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Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration
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Building on the Foundation --
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Patient Perspectives on Care
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Last Modified on Friday, September 24, 2004
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services