Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

December 1st, 2011
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Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improv...

November 29th, 2011
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Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...

November 21st, 2011
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Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...

November 16th, 2011
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Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

November 14th, 2011
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While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...

November 3rd, 2011
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CMS issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for physician...

November 1st, 2011
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Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...

November 1st, 2011
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One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...

November 1st, 2011
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Restructuring care has reduced readmissions at St. Mary?s Duluth (MN) Clinic Heart and Vascular ...

October 10th, 2011
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According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

October 3rd, 2011
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Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...

October 2nd, 2011
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Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

October 1st, 2011
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In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...

September 30th, 2011
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While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...

September 22nd, 2011
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This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

August 19th, 2011
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Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...

August 1st, 2011
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A trip to the emergency department too often conjures up images of crowded waiting rooms and exte...

August 1st, 2011
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Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...

July 29th, 2011
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Throughout the United States, allied hospital associations—state, regional and metropolitan—are w...

July 1st, 2011
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An integrated approach to project design drove breakthrough improvement in operating results at S...

June 13th, 2011
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Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...

April 25th, 2011
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Timely access to health care is important for everyone, particularly our nation's veterans. From ...

March 14th, 2011
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This paper discusses how new technologies can be applied to improve the health of populations and...

January 1st, 2011
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