https://paraskatyal.com/tags/healthcare-strategy/ Recent content in Healthcare Strategy on Paras Katyal Hugo en-us Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://paraskatyal.com/blog/digital-health-hype-vs-reality/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://paraskatyal.com/blog/digital-health-hype-vs-reality/ <p>Healthcare organizations talk a lot about quality. But if you ask what &ldquo;quality&rdquo; actually means in practice — how it&rsquo;s defined, who measures it, and what happens when the numbers look bad — the answers get complicated fast.</p> <p>Here&rsquo;s a plain-language breakdown of how quality measurement works in healthcare, and why getting it right is harder than it looks.</p> <hr> <h2 id="why-we-measure-quality-at-all">Why We Measure Quality at All</h2> <p>For most of history, healthcare quality was assessed informally — reputation, credentials, patient feedback. The problem with that approach is that it&rsquo;s not scalable, not consistent, and not particularly reliable.</p>