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Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...
Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...
The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...
Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...
Today's hospital leaders are in need of products and services to help them meet growing efficienc...
An Alliance for Health Reform toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...
This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community...
Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...
Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...
An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit, produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundat...
Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...
The IHI Improvement Capability SelfâAssessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...
On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a final regulation for the ne...
An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...
An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...
A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...
A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...
Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...
This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...
Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...
An annual list of the top 100 hospitals in the United States.
As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...
An Evidence-informed Case Rate is a budget for a comprehensive episode of medical care within a d...
As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...
Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...
For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...
As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...
Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...
In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...
Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center created the hospital point of dispensing (HPOD) t...
St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...
Overcrowding and bottlenecks with patient flow plague hospitals and emergency rooms across the co...
In March 2009, after assessing staff's knowledge about fire prevention and safety, St. Mary's Hos...
This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...
To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...
Frequently Asked Questions regarding implementation of the market reform provisions of the Affor...
Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...
While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...
Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...
Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...
Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...
This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...
The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...
While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...
This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...
This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...
Given economic and industry trends related to the worldwide financial markets, the nation's econo...
The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed ...
