A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...

November 26th, 2012
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Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

November 19th, 2012
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Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care deliv...

November 15th, 2012
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Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

November 12th, 2012
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In an era of team-based care, nurses are increasingly taking on new leadership roles. Beatrice Ka...

November 12th, 2012
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"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

November 5th, 2012
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Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...

November 1st, 2012
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Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

November 1st, 2012
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Hospital trustees considering a merger or other affiliation should ask themselves if they are tre...

November 1st, 2012
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Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...

November 1st, 2012
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Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

October 25th, 2012
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...

October 22nd, 2012
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The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

October 16th, 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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On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  released a final regulation for the ne...

September 12th, 2012
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There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

September 7th, 2012
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This fact sheet summarizes the finding from the 2012 Most Wired survey results. The Most Wired s...

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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This is a collection of resources around computerized physician order entry to assist in implemen...

August 1st, 2012
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Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

July 1st, 2012
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