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Quality Matters, Inc

Health Care Consulting for the Twenty-first Century

Assuring the professional interests of our clients
in service to the public welfare

 

 

 

Quality Matters, Inc

Welcome to the home page of Quality Matters, Inc (QMI).  Our website is being updated so please come back often.

QMI offers a range of health care and performance management solutions designed to improve the quality and efficiency of health care delivery.  An innovator and leader in health care quality, QMI works with clinicians, delivery systems, managed care organizations, purchasers, payers, and vendors to develop optimal solutions that are customized for your organization's needs.  On our web site you will find examples of research published by QMI's President and CEO, Dr. Larry Kleinman, as well as descriptions of our products and services.

Quality Matters was founded by a physician and serves:

·        Physicians

·        State Health Programs

·        Hospitals

·        Federal Health Programs

·        Clinical Programs

·        Outpatient Surgery Centers

·        Academic researchers

·        Philanthropic foundations

·        Academic Medical Centers

·        Third Party Payers

·        HMOs, PPOs and IPAs

·        Community Programs

with customized products and services, including:

·     Performance Measurement

·      Data Integration and analysis  

·     Program Evaluation

·        Patient Safety

·     Patient Surveys

·        Disease Management

·     Outcomes Tracking

·        Management Consultation

·     Policy Analysis

·        Strategic Planning

·     Market Analysis

·        Quality Improvement

·     Developing measurement models

·        Designing instruments and outcomes measures

·     HEDIS and Going Beyond HEDIS

·        Integrating Measurement with Operations

 

Quality Matters has a portfolio of products designed to improve the health and health care for children and adults. Quality Matters' founder is a pediatrician with a special interest in children's health.

 

We are committed to providing individualized service for each of our clients, in keeping with the adage that: "One size fits none"

 

Our Mission

 Quality Matters, Inc partners with other health care organizations to improve the quality of health and health care.

Quality Matters, Inc seeks to remain a leader in advancing the theory and practice of quality and quality improvement in health care.

Quality Matters, Inc believes that optimal health results from an integration of healthy life styles,  high quality personal health care, supportive communities, and public health activities. 

Quality Matters, Inc is committed to the belief that intelligent measurement and analysis can improve health and health care for individuals and populations.

Quality Matters, Inc supports informed action in pursuit of health and well-being.

 

 

QMI Goals

Quality Matters, Inc seeks a fair profit while making a valuable difference by:
• increasing our clients’ value to their customers
• helping clients to understand their performance and its impact in the market place
• assist clients to improve performance and customer satisfaction
• advancing the state of the art of quality improvement and performance measurement
• promoting a climate in which doing the right thing is recognized as good business, and
• improving the quality of health care
 

QMI Vision

Quality Matters, Inc. collaborates with our clients to improve health care. QMI integrates:

• creative excellence in collaborative design
• leadership in measurement
• responsible innovation
• rigorous analyses
• solid management
• clinical values, and
• integrity

with respect for value.

In order to serve the needs of our clients and their customers,  QMI seeks to delight our clients by helping them to understand and to improve the quality and the responsiveness of their performance.
 

Company Profile

Quality Matters, Inc is a small firm with big talent and the capacity to provide customized solutions to complex problems regarding measuring and improving the quality of health care.  

QMI offers thoughtful, individualized consultations, partnerships for innovative research, and data collection and analysis.  

QMI clients and partners have included academic and community medical centers, managed care organizations, state and federal Medicaid programs, federal agencies and private foundations.

Lawrence C. Kleinman, MD, MPH, FAAP is the President and CEO of Quality Matters, Inc.  Dr. Kleinman is a board certified pediatrician and an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA.  He is recognized as a national expert in measuring and improving the quality of Health Care.  Dr. Kleinman has served on the faculties of the Harvard, Yale, UCLA, Penn State, and University of Connecticut Medical Schools and the Harvard School of Public Health.

QMI Selected Publications

Quotes of note

Contact Information

Telephone
610 740 5838
FAX
610 740 5839
Postal address
535 North 27th Street, Allentown, PA 18104
Electronic mail
Customer Service and Sales: kleinman@qmresearch.com
Webmaster: bachman@qmresearch.com

 

Send mail to bachman@qmresearch.com with questions or comments about this web site.
Last modified: 05/03/06