Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

RWJF video details three perspectives on the need for cost information

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

CMS issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for physician...

Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...

One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...

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

Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...

The eighth biennial survey of ACPE members identifies key trends and factors driving today's phys...

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

Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...

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 focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

This report outlines promising provisions in the Affordable Care Act to achieve improved health a...

In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...

While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...

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

The U.S. is facing an epidemic of chronic disease at the same time as it's facing tough decisions...

Just three years ago, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center faced falling quality indicators, staff ...

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...

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

Through HFMA's Value Project, health care finance leaders are joining their clinical partners to ...

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

This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

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

An NQF endorsement reflects rigorous scientific and evidence-based review, input from patients an...

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

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

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...

The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon.  The average for Lehi...

Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed ...

Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...

The federal health reform legislation includes several demonstration projects that will be held i...

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

Reducing preventable harm by half is a lofty goal for any hospital, let alone a large, integrated...

An AHA research synthesis report presents an overview of bundled payment, including evidence of i...

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

When change proves challenging, involving everyone in the process can be key. Advocate Good Sheph...

The Problem The average ED length of stay was 413 minutes (6 hours, 53 minutes). Fourteen percen...

The Problem ThedaCare selected its radiation oncology (rad-onc) department to kick off a systemw...

The Problem Inefficiencies in the fast track at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have long b...

The Problem Vanderbilt's project didn't address a problem so much as it focused on a goal: to be...

The Problem Like many hospitals, Westmoreland struggled with significant ED crowding and patient...

The Problem More than one million serious medication errors occur each year in U.S. hospitals. T...

Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine shocked the health care field and the general public wit...

At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...

The Problem Advocate Christ Medical Center's space in the admittance bay area and resource usage...

The Problem A new 192-room patient bed tower was constructed and designed with a new decentraliz...

The Problem In a 2008 medical staff satisfaction survey, 93 percent of Advocate Good Shepherd ph...

The Problem Emergency departments across the nation are being stretched as more Americans rely o...

The Problem Wait times in the hospital's inpatient rehabilitation center were unacceptable; some ...

The Problem When the performance improvement team began to take stock of the situation in Advoca...

The Problem Medication safety is a strategic imperative in the organization. Each aspect of the ...

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

The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...

The Problem Good Samaritan's LWBS rate (2.1 percent) is close to the national average (2.0 perce...

The Problem Hazleton General Hospital officials were unhappy with their performance on a number ...

The Problem According to a study published online by Health Affairs on January 15, 2008, the med...

The Problem Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 mil...

The Problem MRSA accounts for more than 18,000 deaths annually nationwide, according to the CDC....

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

The Problem The results of blood tests are crucial to physician decision making. At St. Luke's, ...

The Problem Several processes used in the care of patients of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical ...

The Problem Advocate Lutheran General Hospital admits 32 percent of its emergency department pat...

The Problem According to the American Heart Association, heart failure affects about 5.7 million...

The Problem The emergency department corrective action team began May 2, 2007 with the mission s...

The Problem DMC wanted to chart a new path for fulfilling its mission of offering the best possi...

The Problem Like many urban safety net hospitals, Hahnemann University Hospital struggled with o...

The Problem Norwalk Hospital was an early developer and user of health information technology. I...

The Problem Carolina Medical Center-Mercy worked on patient throughput in its ED, while developi...

This article discusses the role of information technology to achieve population health goals.

With the goal of improving patient care while cutting waste and cost, a team of employees met to ...

In 2004, officials at Miller Electric, a division of Illinois-based Illinois Tool Works, knew the...