To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...

November 21st, 2011
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Frequently Asked Questions regarding implementation of the market reform provisions of the Affor...

November 18th, 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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While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...

November 3rd, 2011
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This certified CME/CE activity is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence...

November 1st, 2011
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This certified CME/CE activity addresses professional practice gaps in the optimal care of chroni...

November 1st, 2011
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Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

November 1st, 2011
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The current understanding of what drives readmission focuses on the quality of the inpatient disc...

October 26th, 2011
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Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...

October 19th, 2011
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Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...

October 9th, 2011
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Falls prevention monitoring led to a closer look at Mercy Medical Center's acute inpatient rehabi...

October 9th, 2011
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This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

October 1st, 2011
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Steering Committee for the Prevention of H...

October 1st, 2011
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HAP launches a health care worker universal influenza vaccination campaign. The campaign provides...

October 1st, 2011
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The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

October 1st, 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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Health care professionals and patients all agree that wrong site surgery is a serious and prevent...

June 29th, 2011
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This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

April 1st, 2011
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Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...

February 1st, 2011
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This study examined SSDI applications between 2005 and 2006, focusing on a "natural experiment" t...

January 1st, 2011
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