Care coordination is challenging for complex and vulnerable patient populations. Montefiore Medic...

December 12th, 2011
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This report provides a detailed discussion of baseline health spending by state of residence (per...

December 7th, 2011
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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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To promote healthy communities, hospitals must lead the way and serve as role models. A recent AH...

November 28th, 2011
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Ten existential questions will make the difference between limping into the future and soaring to...

November 22nd, 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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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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Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

November 14th, 2011
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Success in strategic organizational initiatives depends on changing the way people work together.

November 10th, 2011
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RWJF video details three perspectives on the need for cost information

November 10th, 2011
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In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

November 8th, 2011
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Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...

November 7th, 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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Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

November 1st, 2011
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Implementing a sustainability program requires significant cultural change and time. A good place...

November 1st, 2011
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This annual webinar highlights thhe 2011 AHA-McKesson  Quest forQuality winners and finalists. 20...

November 1st, 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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The eighth biennial survey of ACPE members identifies key trends and factors driving today's phys...

October 19th, 2011
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The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

October 18th, 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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Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...

October 9th, 2011
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The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...

October 9th, 2011
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A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...

October 4th, 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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This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

October 1st, 2011
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The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...

October 1st, 2011
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The Leapfrog Group, a consortium of public and private employers who purchase health care for mor...

October 1st, 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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The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

October 1st, 2011
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The business adage "what gets measured gets managed" applies in health care. Two projects focus o...

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

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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The answer is: attracting, retaining and developing the best workforce. The question: What is one...

September 19th, 2011
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This webpage gives consumers resources and tools to be actively engaged in the quality of the car...

September 15th, 2011
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Overcoming transition challenges requires tenacity and teamwork. During a time of transition befo...

September 12th, 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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The U.S. is facing an epidemic of chronic disease at the same time as it's facing tough decisions...

September 1st, 2011
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The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

September 1st, 2011
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Just three years ago, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center faced falling quality indicators, staff ...

August 29th, 2011

This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

August 19th, 2011
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Efficient bed placement for patients can mean fewer discharge delays, decreased length of stay an...

August 8th, 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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This sponsored supplement explores the challenges of investing for lower-cost devices, services a...

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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Responding to an explosive growth in patient population, Yale-New Haven Hospital implemented a su...

July 25th, 2011
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As America's hospitals and health systems are transforming care, hospitals are facing challenges ...

July 1st, 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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Electronic health records may create less paperwork, but documentation can still be time-consumin...

June 20th, 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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Through HFMA's Value Project, health care finance leaders are joining their clinical partners to ...

June 1st, 2011
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Labor and delivery departments are busy places. At New York-Presbyterian, providing appropriate b...

May 9th, 2011
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The report defines the meaning of value in health care, provides an overview of the current state...

May 1st, 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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"Navigating the rising tide of HACs" is what Baystate Medical Center (BMC) calls this project. A ...

April 18th, 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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Timely access to health care is important for everyone, particularly our nation's veterans. From ...

March 14th, 2011
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A focus on wellness to provide better health and better health care is part of the AHA's Health F...

February 21st, 2011
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 The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...

February 1st, 2011
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The journey from good to great for Good Samaritan Hospital of Baltimore started with differentiat...

January 10th, 2011
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An NQF endorsement reflects rigorous scientific and evidence-based review, input from patients an...

January 1st, 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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