The Association for the Healthcare Environment represents directors, managers, supervisors, suppl...

September 28th, 2012
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Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

September 20th, 2012
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An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

August 27th, 2012
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This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to  better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...

June 1st, 2012
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After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

June 1st, 2012
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Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...

June 1st, 2012
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Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

June 1st, 2012
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For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...

April 16th, 2012
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As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

April 5th, 2012
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In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

March 1st, 2012
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As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

March 1st, 2012
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Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

February 1st, 2012
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Olean General Hospital is one of only a few community hospitals in the nation to offer a center o...

February 1st, 2012
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Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

February 1st, 2012
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In 2005, North Shore University Hospital's president and chief executive officer made a commitmen...

February 1st, 2012
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This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...

January 1st, 2012
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This report provides a detailed discussion of baseline health spending by state of residence (per...

December 7th, 2011
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Frequently Asked Questions regarding implementation of the market reform provisions of the Affor...

November 18th, 2011
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Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

November 1st, 2011
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The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

October 18th, 2011
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Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...

October 2nd, 2011
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This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

October 1st, 2011
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The Rand Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their hea...

September 29th, 2011
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Reining in health care costs has become a central policy challenge for government and a pressing ...

September 1st, 2011
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This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

August 19th, 2011
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This sponsored supplement explores the challenges of investing for lower-cost devices, services a...

August 1st, 2011
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The report defines the meaning of value in health care, provides an overview of the current state...

May 1st, 2011
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An analysis of the current market

March 1st, 2011
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Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...

February 1st, 2011
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 The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...

February 1st, 2011
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This paper discusses how new technologies can be applied to improve the health of populations and...

January 1st, 2011
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The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...

September 1st, 2010
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Due to the size and breadth of their organizations, multi-hospital health system leaders have a s...

March 1st, 2010
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The content of this best-practices guide, and the process by which it was assembled, are emblemat...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem St. Francis struggled getting non-emergent patients from the door to an ED bed in a ...

August 1st, 2009
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This article discusses the role of information technology to achieve population health goals.

April 1st, 2009
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