As a new generation of payment and delivery system reform emerges, much focus has been on a subse...

October 3rd, 2017
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Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...

September 16th, 2016
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Hospitals and health care systems are increasingly focused on finding better ways to deliver care...

April 11th, 2016

This guide is a synopsis of a conversation held at the Association for Healthcare Resource & Mate...

December 17th, 2013
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St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...

August 30th, 2013
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Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, a division of Wheaton Franciscan Services, Inc., is a Catholic, no...

March 12th, 2013
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The Red Box strategy was created to help reduce cost and health care worker time associated with ...

March 12th, 2013
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The conclusion of H&HN's yearlong series on hospital, community and national efforts to identify ...

December 5th, 2012
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In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

December 3rd, 2012
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A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...

November 26th, 2012
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Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...

November 7th, 2012
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Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...

November 1st, 2012
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Cigna’s Collaborative Accountable Care initiative provides financial incentives to physician grou...

November 1st, 2012
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America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...

September 6th, 2012
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Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

August 1st, 2012
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Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...

June 1st, 2012
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Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...

June 1st, 2012
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As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

April 5th, 2012
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In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

March 1st, 2012
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As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

March 1st, 2012
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Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

February 1st, 2012
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NuHealth Nassau University Medical Center identified central line-associated blood stream infecti...

February 1st, 2012
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Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

November 16th, 2011
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RWJF video details three perspectives on the need for cost information

November 10th, 2011
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Reducing postoperative complications could reduce costs associated with readmissions by millions ...

November 8th, 2011
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Among the health promotion and cost-control strategies included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...

October 27th, 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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This report outlines promising provisions in the Affordable Care Act to achieve improved health a...

October 1st, 2011
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The Rand Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their hea...

September 29th, 2011
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Reining in health care costs has become a central policy challenge for government and a pressing ...

September 1st, 2011
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