Blog: Accounting for quality reporting challenges during a pandemic

Partnering on Population Health. A Black female patient in a hospital bed smiles at a female clinician of color with a smile on her face who is examining the patient in a hospital room.

A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposal to pause public reporting on the inpatient patient safety indicator measure for one year due to the pandemic “is not only consistent with a commitment to transparency, but important for maintaining the credibility of the information shared with the public,” writes Akin Demehin, AHA’s senior director of quality and patient safety policy. READ MORE.

Quality & Patient Safety