Although primary care is expected to be  safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, an...

September 12th, 2012
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Implementing clinical practice guidelines can improve the quality of patient care and positively ...

September 12th, 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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Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

July 1st, 2012
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Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

March 2nd, 2012
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This online executive dialogue explores CPOE implementation. Expert CIOs and CMIOs share their ex...

March 1st, 2012
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Transitioning to the new coding system is a mammoth undertaking, one that requires not just signi...

March 1st, 2012
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This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

February 22nd, 2012
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My goal in this article is to use the laws of physics to help readers think in new ways about sha...

February 21st, 2012
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According to a recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society survey, 41 percent of...

February 1st, 2012
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Saving lives and promoting community health certainly are commendable undertakings. To fully real...

January 1st, 2012
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This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identifie...

January 1st, 2012
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This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...

January 1st, 2012
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Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improv...

November 29th, 2011
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Ten existential questions will make the difference between limping into the future and soaring to...

November 22nd, 2011
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Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...

November 16th, 2011
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Success in strategic organizational initiatives depends on changing the way people work together.

November 10th, 2011
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While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...

November 3rd, 2011
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Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

November 1st, 2011
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Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...

October 19th, 2011
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