Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

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

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

A key element of the PCMH model is engaging patients and caregivers in their care. This paper off...

This paper explores the current landscape of patient-centered medical home services for patients ...

This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...

This decision-maker brief offers programmatic and policy changes that can help practices, especia...

This brief describes how decisionmakers can encourage a model of care that truly reflects the nee...

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...

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

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

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

This article assesses the potential impact of P4P on national hospital disparities using a two-me...

Saving lives and promoting community health certainly are commendable undertakings. To fully real...

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

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

This study used written portfolios to capture reflective learning that trainees described about t...

This article discusses the imperitive to invest in community development as a means to improve po...

This article discusses the socioeconomic factors necessary for health in a community. The author ...