Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve o...

In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...

Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care deliv...

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 ...

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...

AHVRP, a professional membership group of the AHA,  is the premier professional membership societ...

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...

Health Forum provides communications, information, education and research products and services t...

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

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

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

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

PLF hosted a session on achieving team-based health care delivery. David Nash, MD, founding dean ...

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...

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

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

My goal in this article is to use the laws of physics to help readers think in new ways about sha...

The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality ...

This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

This report provides a detailed discussion of baseline health spending by state of residence (per...

To promote healthy communities, hospitals must lead the way and serve as role models. A recent AH...

Ten existential questions will make the difference between limping into the future and soaring to...

Frequently Asked Questions regarding implementation of the market reform provisions of the Affor...

In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

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

Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...

This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

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

Reining in health care costs has become a central policy challenge for government and a pressing ...

This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

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

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

 The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...

This paper discusses how new technologies can be applied to improve the health of populations and...

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...

A key ingredient for success under health care reform will be the ability to utilize health infor...

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

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

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