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

January 1st, 2013
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A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...

November 19th, 2012
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Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...

November 8th, 2012
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There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...

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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Authored by Kaufman Hall executives, this guide describes the groundwork and prerequisites requir...

September 1st, 2012
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PLF hosted a session on achieving team-based health care delivery. David Nash, MD, founding dean ...

August 1st, 2012
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The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

July 1st, 2012
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As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

March 1st, 2012
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Market forces are driving renewed interest in integration that may result in changes in the owner...

January 1st, 2012
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The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

September 1st, 2011
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As America's hospitals and health systems are transforming care, hospitals are facing challenges ...

July 1st, 2011
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Throughout the United States, allied hospital associations—state, regional and metropolitan—are w...

July 1st, 2011
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This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

April 1st, 2011
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 The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...

February 1st, 2011
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Given economic and industry trends related to the worldwide financial markets, the nation's econo...

December 1st, 2010
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This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

November 1st, 2010
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This compendium of guides, reports, and toolkits provides a wealth of actionable resources to hel...

July 1st, 2010
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The federal health reform legislation includes several demonstration projects that will be held i...

July 1st, 2010
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A key ingredient for success under health care reform will be the ability to utilize health infor...

July 1st, 2010
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