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General Issues

• Quality Improvement and Public Reporting (3/9/10)
• Quality Improvement and Public Reporting (2/25/10)
• Quality Improvement and Public Reporting (2/19/10)
• Quality Improvement and Public Reporting (2/12/10)
• Quality Improvement and Public Reporting (2/5/10)
• Meaningful Use Proposed Regulations: Integration of Quality, HIT and Payment (12/31/09)
• Health Information Technology Developments and Opportunities (12/29/09)
• Quality and Public Reporting Developments (12/11/09)
• Quality and Public Reporting Developments (12/4/09)
• Quality and Public Reporting Update (11/6/09)
• Upcoming Quality and Public Reporting Opportunities (10/16/09)
  - Hospital Report Card Preview FAQ (10/16/09)
• Updates on Quality and Public Reporting (10/2/09)
• Updates on Quality and Health Information Technology (8/21/09)
• IDPH Movement to New Electronic Death and Birth Registration System (7/23/09)
• Press Release: Quality Agency Recognizes Illinois Patient Safety Organization (7/23/09)
• Updates on Quality Improvement and Performance Measurements (7/2/09)
• IHA Quality Care Institute - New! (5/29/09)
• Quality Improvement Educational Meetings
• Quality Improvement Educational Updates (5/1/09)
• HCAHPS Release - March 26
• Quality and Health Information Technology Update (3/19/09)
• Quality Performance Improvement and Public Reporting Updates (2/12/09)
• Illinois Hospital Performance Continues to Improve (2/5/09)
• Accountability and Performance Improvement Update (10/23/08)
• HealthGrades Hospital Release - Oct. 14 (10/13/08)
• Quality and Public Reporting Updates (10/3/08)
• Quality and Performance Reporting Information Update (8/28/08)
• Upcoming Hospital Compare Release (8/14/08)
• Medicare Inpatient Final Rules Released (8/1/08)
• Quality Update and Public Reporting (7/16/08)
• Quality Improvement Updates (6/19/08)
• Performance Measurement Updates (6/6/08)
• Upcoming Releases: "Unnatural Causes" PBS Series and Dartmouth Study on Chronic and End of Life Care (3/25/08)
• CMS Releases List of Hospitals Targeted for SCIP Improvement (2/5/08)
• Medicare Focus on Quality - Inpatient PPS Final Rules and Proposed Outpatient PPS Rules

Special Studies

• Upcoming and Recent Release of Studies (11/20/08)
• National Release of Hospital Specific Data; Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center (5/28/08)
• Release of Dartmouth Study and Upcoming HealthGrades Report (4/7/08)
  - 2008 Dartmouth Executive Summary (4/7/08)
  - The Dartmouth Institute Press Release
• MRSA Prevalence Study
• Dartmouth Study

Guidelines

• CDC Guidelines for Isolation Precautions
• Medicare - State Operations Manual: Survey Protocol, Regulations and Interpretive Guidelines for Hospitals