Quality 

• The Urgent Need to Improve Health Care Quality
  Report drafted by the Institute of Medicine, National Roundtable on Health Care Quality concluded that the quality of care should be the focus to improve the system.
• Medical Record Privacy Regulations (Duke University Capstone Report 05/01/02)
• Should Standardized, Electronic Medical Records be Required? (Duke University Capstone Report 04/26/04)
• Evaluating Quality on the Net
• Low-risk elderly patients may be safely discharged early from the hospital following bypass surgery (AHCPR: 1/98)
• Occupational therapy may reduce health declines in older adults (AHCPR: 1/98)
• Study Finds Shortcomings in Cancer Treatment

HMOs

• PPOs: New Accreditation Standards Released By URAC
• NCQU: External Appeals Debut in New Stadards
• Quality Compass Web Site
• Breast Cancer: Detection Treatment Better in HMO's?

Medicare

• Audit of the Medicare HEDIS Data (provided by IPRO)