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Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...
The AMA Principles for Physician Employment are intended to help physicians, those who employ phy...
In an era of team-based care, nurses are increasingly taking on new leadership roles. Beatrice Ka...
Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...
Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...
Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...
Three hazards involve health IT system-related technologies While today's health technology adva...
This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders ...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...
Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...
Hospital trustees considering a merger or other affiliation should ask themselves if they are tre...
Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...
When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...
Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...
Beginning in 2014, the reporting of clinical quality measures will change for all providers. Elec...
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...
AHRMM is the premier membership group for health care supply chain and materials management profe...
With more than 11,000 members, ASHE is the largest association devoted to optimizing the health c...
ASHHRA of the AHA, is the leading membership organization exclusively dedicated to meeting the pr...
Established in 1980, ASHRM is a personal membership group of the AHA with nearly 6,000 members re...
SHSMD is the premier organization for 4,000 health care professionals responsible for strategy de...
Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...
Health Forum provides communications, information, education and research products and services t...
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...
There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...
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 Association for the Healthcare Environment represents directors, managers, supervisors, suppl...
The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...
Clinical integration is needed to facilitate the coordination of patient care across conditions, ...
On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a final regulation for the ne...
Implementing clinical practice guidelines can improve the quality of patient care and positively ...
Authored by Kaufman Hall executives, this guide describes the groundwork and prerequisites requir...
This fact sheet summarizes the finding from the 2012 Most Wired survey results. The Most Wired s...
The American Hospital Association's Physician Leadership Forum helps physicians and hospitals adv...
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...
Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...
This is a collection of resources around computerized physician order entry to assist in implemen...
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...
This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...
Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...
A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...
This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...
Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...
Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...
The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...
A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...
With nearly half of all emergency departments operating at or above capacity and the majority of ...
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...
The authors found little evidence that participation in the Premier HQID program led to lower 30-...
An Evidence-informed Case Rate is a budget for a comprehensive episode of medical care within a d...
This online executive dialogue explores CPOE implementation. Expert CIOs and CMIOs share their ex...
Transitioning to the new coding system is a mammoth undertaking, one that requires not just signi...
As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...
According to a recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society survey, 41 percent of...
Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...
The Brooklyn Hospital Center formed a multidisciplinary rapid response team in 2009 to respond to...
Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...
Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...
With unique culture trends and stringent regulatory obligations, patient care units are often cha...
Continuum Health Partners' pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...
The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...
Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...
For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...
Although electronic reporting systems for near misses and adverse events have been implemented na...
For the past three years, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center has been develop...
As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...
For more than ten years, St. Elizabeth Medical Center has focused on length of stay and resource ...
This project was initiated by David Lyons, Director of Respiratory Therapy at St. Francis Hospita...
Strong Memorial Hospital adopted barcode medication administration technology to reduce the incid...
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...
In response to an increase in fall-related injuries in its skilled nursing facility, Champlain Va...
Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center created the hospital point of dispensing (HPOD) t...
NuHealth Nassau University Medical Center identified central line-associated blood stream infecti...
Rochester General Hospital formed a multidisciplinary team to develop and implement actions that ...
St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...
Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...
Overcrowding and bottlenecks with patient flow plague hospitals and emergency rooms across the co...
In 2008, a project was underway to renovate Southampton Hospital's emergency department (upgradin...
In 2010, Southampton Hospital discovered that its process for checking and maintaining equipment/...
In March 2009, after assessing staff's knowledge about fire prevention and safety, St. Mary's Hos...
Go to kp.org with your smartphone, or download the free Kaiser Permanente app at Android Market t...
This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...
This report provides a detailed discussion of baseline health spending by state of residence (per...
Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improv...
To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...