Summary: Improving Patient Quality

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In the video they mention about the collaboration between the physicians, physician decided to improve patient quality care by willing share their practice and collaborate with their colleagues. By collaborate with other clinic physician ware able to improve the quality of care .They were able to compare their standard of care with other clinic .these collaboration help physician to improve patient’s outcome on their facility. They decided to be transparent and share great information in order to improve quality of care. According to (NRHI,2014)Healthcare transparency develop solutions for producing and publishing comparative performance data so that individuals, physicians, and employers can obtain information about the quality of care provided

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