Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The goal was to improve turnaround times of troponin and EKGs within the cardiac patient populati...

The 2012 AHA Committee on Performance Improvement focused on advanced illness management. Well-de...

Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...

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...

Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...

Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...

Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...

One of the most vital strategies in the current health care environment is physician-hospital ali...

Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...

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...

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...

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

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

There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...

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...

There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

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...

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 ...

The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that c...

The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

Transitioning to the new coding system is a mammoth undertaking, one that requires not just signi...

Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...

The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

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 ...

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...

Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...

In March 2009, after assessing staff's knowledge about fire prevention and safety, St. Mary's Hos...

Saving lives and promoting community health certainly are commendable undertakings. To fully real...

Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

Montefiore Medical CenterBronx, NY1,418 Beds The Problem Montefiore Medical Center is a large, a...

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

While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...