Software points out where performance needs improvement.

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Software points out where performance needs improvement.

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Quality improvement analysts are accustomed to running reports--lots of them--to identify areas of hospital activity that can use improvement. The work of calculating performance rates and comparing those to national benchmarks is time consuming and somewhat tedious. It doesn't have to be that way.

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