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The U.S. is facing an epidemic of chronic disease at the same time as it's facing tough decisions...
The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...
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...
Efficient bed placement for patients can mean fewer discharge delays, decreased length of stay an...
Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...
This sponsored supplement explores the challenges of investing for lower-cost devices, services a...
A trip to the emergency department too often conjures up images of crowded waiting rooms and exte...
Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...
Responding to an explosive growth in patient population, Yale-New Haven Hospital implemented a su...
As America's hospitals and health systems are transforming care, hospitals are facing challenges ...
Throughout the United States, allied hospital associations—state, regional and metropolitan—are w...
Electronic health records may create less paperwork, but documentation can still be time-consumin...
An integrated approach to project design drove breakthrough improvement in operating results at S...
Through HFMA's Value Project, health care finance leaders are joining their clinical partners to ...
Labor and delivery departments are busy places. At New York-Presbyterian, providing appropriate b...
The report defines the meaning of value in health care, provides an overview of the current state...
Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...
"Navigating the rising tide of HACs" is what Baystate Medical Center (BMC) calls this project. A ...
This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...
Timely access to health care is important for everyone, particularly our nation's veterans. From ...
A focus on wellness to provide better health and better health care is part of the AHA's Health F...
The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...
The journey from good to great for Good Samaritan Hospital of Baltimore started with differentiat...
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...
At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago this fall, Kathi Patterson,...
While many health care-acquired infections are transmitted by personal contact due to poor hand h...
Given economic and industry trends related to the worldwide financial markets, the nation's econo...
Rarely does an orthopedic physician discuss information workflow with an ER doc, but at Regions H...
This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...
When an employee found directions in her hospital?s emergency department?with directions to other...
Quality improvement and transparency go hand in hand, David Ballard, M.D., senior vice president ...
After reading many success stories about hospitals streamlining and improving patient flow in the...
Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...
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...
Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...
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...
Seamless, effective patient handoffs are a critical piece of any hospital?s patient safety framew...
This compendium of guides, reports, and toolkits provides a wealth of actionable resources to hel...
The federal health reform legislation includes several demonstration projects that will be held i...
A key ingredient for success under health care reform will be the ability to utilize health infor...
The Problem Administrative burdens and inefficient processes left nurses spending just one-third...
As hospitals and health systems adjust to a new health care environment, quality performance and ...
Moving from a paper world to an electronic one is an "evolution," says Marcy Stoots, RN, director...
Evergreen Hospital Medical Center, Kirkland, Wash., implemented best practices in patient flow bu...
This guide communicates the idea that workforce and human resource practices can positively impac...