The Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO) today announced that two new performance measures designed ...

These days, foundations, evaluators, and consultants are spending a lot of time advocating new ways to measure progress and deal with “emergence” when working on complex, systems-change initiatives.

Performance goals and performance measures are terms used interchangeably; however, they can have very different meanings depending on the type of performance management system your organization uses, ...

Performance measures must align with portfolio use and features. Avoid Sharpe and similar ratios due to flaws; consider alternatives like trimmed alpha, median returns, and value at risk. CAGR is ...

The most successful entrepreneurs are proactive, not reactive. Not only do they set strategic goals, but they also track their results using a variety of business performance measures. Also referred ...

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The desire to improve the quality of health care has prompted the increased use of performance measures. These measures examine the outcomes of interventions for evidence of improved health and are ...

For a financial performance measure to be good, it should generally rise when good things happen and decline when bad things happen. And it should motivate high-quality decision-making. This may seem ...

Pay-for-performance programs have produced disappointing results. Fewer and more appropriate, evidence-based quality measures could help. The way we deliver and pay for health care in the United ...

Performance measurement is central to the promise of better care, better health and lower cost that alternative payment models (APMs) seek to deliver. As US health care moves increasingly towards ...