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Podcast: Creating a New Healthcare
Episode: Episode #65 – Bringing Quality Into Healthcare with Peggy O’Kane, NCQA Founder & CEO
Description: Our focus in this episode is on healthcare quality & safety. Quality – its measurement, reporting and accountability – is one of the most significant, impactful and lasting healthcare movements, literally spanning the past four decades. It is a core element of the ubiquitously adopted “Triple Aim”. And yet, it continues to be one of the most challenging problems plaguing healthcare delivery in our country.
Our guest this week is one of the pioneering leaders of the healthcare quality movement. Peggy O’Kane is the Founder and CEO of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). She founded the NCQA 29 years ago, at...