Also essential is developing consistent health care quality metrics that establish goals and standards to evaluate the level of care patients receive.

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Quality and comprehensive metadata should include detailed and understandable definitions, code values, data quality metrics, and data profiles easier said than done, especially in a large enterprise.

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As quality metrics are devised and set I will remind policymakers that people with disabilities needing long term care represent the single greatest and growing expense for public insurance.

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Because our patients are not able to evaluate the quality of their care and external quality metrics are so poor, I wonder if the time might be right to introduce real supervision into medical practice.

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Quality metrics began to soar.

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They included physicians per capita, air quality, quality-of-aging metrics drawn from another Milken Institute study, and crime rates.

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Their metrics show Coach with superior quality and investment value.

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Should teachers be treated like professional football players, whose salaries, job security, and other perks are determined almost exclusively based on individual performance metrics, regardless of the quality of their management, stadiums, equipment, coaching, practice facility, the quality and ambition of their fellow players, their level of fan support, age, health, competition, weather, whether they primarily play indoors or outdoors, or sundry other factors that might empirically affect their performance?

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While cost continues to be the primary cloud ROI metric, there has been a surge in adoption of quality of delivered results and speed of operation, and utilization of resources as metrics as well.

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