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After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...
Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...
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 ...
Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...
The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...
A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...
With nearly half of all emergency departments operating at or above capacity and the majority of ...
An annual list of the top 100 hospitals in the United States.
As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...
The authors found little evidence that participation in the Premier HQID program led to lower 30-...
An Evidence-informed Case Rate is a budget for a comprehensive episode of medical care within a d...
This online executive dialogue explores CPOE implementation. Expert CIOs and CMIOs share their ex...
Transitioning to the new coding system is a mammoth undertaking, one that requires not just signi...
As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...
According to a recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society survey, 41 percent of...
Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...
The Brooklyn Hospital Center formed a multidisciplinary rapid response team in 2009 to respond to...
Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...
Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...
With unique culture trends and stringent regulatory obligations, patient care units are often cha...
Continuum Health Partners' pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...
The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...
Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...
For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...
Although electronic reporting systems for near misses and adverse events have been implemented na...
For the past three years, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center has been develop...
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 ...
This project was initiated by David Lyons, Director of Respiratory Therapy at St. Francis Hospita...
Strong Memorial Hospital adopted barcode medication administration technology to reduce the incid...
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...
In response to an increase in fall-related injuries in its skilled nursing facility, Champlain Va...
Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center created the hospital point of dispensing (HPOD) t...
NuHealth Nassau University Medical Center identified central line-associated blood stream infecti...
Rochester General Hospital formed a multidisciplinary team to develop and implement actions that ...
St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...
Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...
Overcrowding and bottlenecks with patient flow plague hospitals and emergency rooms across the co...
In 2008, a project was underway to renovate Southampton Hospital's emergency department (upgradin...
In 2010, Southampton Hospital discovered that its process for checking and maintaining equipment/...
In March 2009, after assessing staff's knowledge about fire prevention and safety, St. Mary's Hos...
Go to kp.org with your smartphone, or download the free Kaiser Permanente app at Android Market t...
This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...
This report provides a detailed discussion of baseline health spending by state of residence (per...
Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improv...
To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...
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 ...