This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community...

October 8th, 2012
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Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

October 2nd, 2012
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Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

October 1st, 2012
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Using key metrics, MaineHealth gauges its impact on population health The board's challenge--wha...

October 1st, 2012
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An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit, produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundat...

October 1st, 2012
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Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

October 1st, 2012
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The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

September 26th, 2012
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Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in M...

September 17th, 2012
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On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  released a final regulation for the ne...

September 12th, 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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An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

August 20th, 2012
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A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

August 1st, 2012
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A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...

July 19th, 2012
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E-mail, e-books, e-commerce. And now for patients, eVisits. At the University of Pittsburgh Medic...

July 2nd, 2012
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Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

July 1st, 2012
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Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

July 1st, 2012
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This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

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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Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...

June 1st, 2012
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Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...

June 1st, 2012
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