This paper presents the findings of a new scorecard designed to assess and monitor multiple domains of U.S. health system performance. The scorecard uses national and international data to identify performance benchmarks and calculates simple ratio scores comparing U.S averages to benchmarks. Average ratio scores range from 51 to 71 across domains of health outcomes, quality, access, equity, an...

Demonstrating the value of knowledge management (KM) to the organization represents an elusive challenge. In part, this challenge is due to the nature of knowledge management itself and the difficulty in creating direct linkages between knowledge sharing and sales growth or productivity. But it is also undoubtedly due to misaligned KM activities. This paper first reviews the current state of me...

SUMMARY The scorecard summarises key indicators of the burden of osteoporosis and its management in each of the member states of the European Union. The resulting scorecard elements were then assembled on a single sheet to provide a unique overview of osteoporosis in Europe. INTRODUCTION The scorecard for osteoporosis in Europe (SCOPE) is an independent project that seeks to raise awareness o...

BACKGROUND In 2010, diarrhea caused 0.75 million child deaths, accounting for nearly 12% of all under-five mortality worldwide. Many evidence-based interventions can reduce diarrhea mortality, including oral rehydration solution (ORS), zinc, and improved sanitation. Yet global coverage levels of such interventions remain low. A new scorecard of diarrhea control, showing how different countries ...

In the present era of emerging intense global competition, organizations’ are facing increasingly knowledgeable and demanding customers and activist shareholders which have changed the competitive environment from competition based on ability to invest in and manage physical assets to competition based on knowledge and the ability to exploit intangible and soft assets. In this changed business ...

On July 14, 2015, ProPublica published its Surgeon Scorecard, which displays "Adjusted Complication Rates" for individual, named surgeons for eight surgical procedures performed in hospitals. Public reports of provider performance have the potential to improve the quality of health care that patients receive. A valid performance report can drive quality improvement and usefully inform patients'...

OBJECTIVE To determine the ability of the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) Scorecard to predict changes in health care expenditures. METHODS Individual employee health care insurance claims data for 33 organizations completing the HERO Scorecard from 2009 to 2011 were linked to employer responses to the Scorecard. Organizations were dichotomized into "high" versus "low" scoring...

Propensity scorecards allow forecasting, which bank customers would like to be granted new credits in the near future, through assessing their willingness to apply for new loans. Kalman filtering can help to monitor scorecard performance. Data from successive months are used to update the baseline model. The updated scorecard is the output of the Kalman filter. There is no assumption concerning...

Executive Summary : This presentation proposes a conceptual framework for assessing the business effectiveness and quality of Information Management (IM)Services in organizations by using a Corporate Information Management scorecard. The presentation applies the ‘Balanced Scorecard’ tool used by organizations typically for management strategy and performance measurement in the area of Informati...

PROBLEM After the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004, the International Organization for Migration constructed temporary health clinics to provide medical services to survivors living in temporary accommodation centres throughout Aceh, Indonesia. Limited resources, inadequate supervision, staff turnover and lack of a health information system made it challenging to provide quality primary he...