Introduction

Dr. Steven Berry is an associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University and serves as vice chair for quality, safety and service for the Department of Medicine. He's also a practicing infectious disease physician at Hopkins, which puts him front and center in the quality measuring and reporting will you will talk about today. The study that we're going to cover today is entitled the volume and cost of quality metric reporting evidence from an academic medical center. It's all about what medical centers actually have to do in order to comply with all the requirements they have to report data on healthcare quality metrics.