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Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...
Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...
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...
Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...
When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...
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...
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 Self‐Assessment 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...
