Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

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

This fact sheet summarizes the finding from the 2012 Most Wired survey results. The Most Wired s...

This is a collection of resources around computerized physician order entry to assist in implemen...

Partner's created the Center for Connected Health to promote technology-enabled innovations in te...

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

This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

Communication breakdowns continue to be a leading cause of medical errors. Staff at Butler County...

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

This online executive dialogue explores CPOE implementation. Expert CIOs and CMIOs share their ex...

For the past three years, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center has been develop...

According to a recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society survey, 41 percent of...

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

Although electronic reporting systems for near misses and adverse events have been implemented na...

St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...

Strong Memorial Hospital adopted barcode medication administration technology to reduce the incid...

San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...

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

When Kaiser Permanente in California measured its incidence of pressure ulcers in patients three ...

A strategy to use a single, integrated EMR has helped make Elliot Health System, based in Manches...

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

Go to kp.org with your smartphone, or download the free Kaiser Permanente app at Android Market t...

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

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

This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identifie...

Care coordination is challenging for complex and vulnerable patient populations. Montefiore Medic...

To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...

Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...

Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...

Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

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

Restructuring care has reduced readmissions at St. Mary?s Duluth (MN) Clinic Heart and Vascular ...

The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...

The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...

This webpage gives consumers resources and tools to be actively engaged in the quality of the car...

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

Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...

Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...

Electronic health records may create less paperwork, but documentation can still be time-consumin...

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

Rarely does an orthopedic physician discuss information workflow with an ER doc, but at Regions H...

Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...

Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...

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

Seamless, effective patient handoffs are a critical piece of any hospital?s patient safety framew...

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

The Problem Administrative burdens and inefficient processes left nurses spending just one-third...

Evergreen Hospital Medical Center, Kirkland, Wash., implemented best practices in patient flow bu...

Moving from a paper world to an electronic one is an "evolution," says Marcy Stoots, RN, director...