Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Nurses have always been on the front lines at hospitals providing quality, compassionate care for...

Like many hospitals, SBH Health System uses the computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system. ...

A complete list of every HPOE/HRET guide created since 2010. This list features nearly 80 guides ...

Because the medical center’s lost charge capture related to IV injection and infusions totaled $8...

This project has decreased cycle time for medication reconciliation at time of admission and for ...

The CK-MB Test is a traditional blood test of a cardiac marker used to assist in the diagnosis of...

Studies show lipase to be as sensitive as and more specific than amylase in diagnosing pancreatit...

Mercy, a large Catholic health care system, began its telehealth initiatives with an eICU program...

In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...

Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Serv...

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

This year's winners of Health Care's Most Wired Survey are employing information technology to he...

The Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...

This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...

Avista Adventist Hospital, a 114-bed facility in Louisville, Colorado, used best practices and pe...

This toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care ...

This webinar introduces and explains the ONC-sponsored SAFER guides, which can be found at http:/...

In conjunction with Health Services Research, this webinar showcases health IT developments in th...

Cybersecurity vulnerabilities and intrusions pose risks for every hospital and its reputation. Wh...

The April issue of Health Services Research journal is now available. Covering topics in variati...

A special issue of Health Services Research on “Health Information Technology” is now available. ...

Redefine. Partner. Integrate. Experiment. Specialize. Many hospitals and care systems are embarki...

The 2014 AHA Chair-elect Jonathan  Perlin, MD, co-authored this paper and companion financial mod...

Never underestimate the power of data. Hannibal (Mo.) Regional Hospital focused on collecting and...

This article explores how geographic health information systems can be used to improve the health...

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

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare (Glendale, Wis.) 11 hospitals, 70 clinic sites, three long-term ...

Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...

Many of the nation's hospitals and health systems have made progress laying the building blocks f...

This report from the Department of Health and Human Services describes a plan to bolster implemen...

Yuma District HospitalYuma, CO12 Beds The Problem Yuma District Hospital, located in Yuma, Color...

New Ulm Medical CenterNew Ulm, MN45 Beds The Problem New Ulm Medical Center, a critical access h...

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc.,  have had a long-...

In 2008, Ellis Hospital launched a medical home at its Ellis Health Center campus. This initiativ...

Concord (N.H.) Hospital • 230-bed regional medical center • 17,194 admissions • 295 medical staff...

Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Jackson, Miss.– 633 beds– 3,000-plus employees In 1997, Miss...

Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health p...

According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...

Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...

Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge, MA229 Beds Cambridge Health Alliance is an integrated health...

Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...

Three hazards involve health IT system-related technologies While today's health technology adva...

Beginning in 2014, the reporting of clinical quality measures will change for all providers. Elec...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...

This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community...

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit, produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundat...

Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

This fact sheet summarizes the finding from the 2012 Most Wired survey results. The Most Wired s...

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

Partner's created the Center for Connected Health to promote technology-enabled innovations in te...

E-mail, e-books, e-commerce. And now for patients, eVisits. At the University of Pittsburgh Medic...

This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

Communication breakdowns continue to be a leading cause of medical errors. Staff at Butler County...

Transitioning to the new coding system is a mammoth undertaking, one that requires not just signi...

This online executive dialogue explores CPOE implementation. Expert CIOs and CMIOs share their ex...

For the past three years, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center has been develop...

According to a recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society survey, 41 percent of...

Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...

Although electronic reporting systems for near misses and adverse events have been implemented na...

St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...

Strong Memorial Hospital adopted barcode medication administration technology to reduce the incid...

San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...

Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

When Kaiser Permanente in California measured its incidence of pressure ulcers in patients three ...

A strategy to use a single, integrated EMR has helped make Elliot Health System, based in Manches...

This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...

Go to kp.org with your smartphone, or download the free Kaiser Permanente app at Android Market t...

Montefiore Medical CenterBronx, NY1,418 Beds The Problem Montefiore Medical Center is a large, a...

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identifie...

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

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

Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...

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

Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

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

Restructuring care has reduced readmissions at St. Mary?s Duluth (MN) Clinic Heart and Vascular ...

The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...

The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...

This webpage gives consumers resources and tools to be actively engaged in the quality of the car...

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

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

Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...

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

This paper discusses how new technologies can be applied to improve the health of populations and...

Rarely does an orthopedic physician discuss information workflow with an ER doc, but at Regions H...

Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...

Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...

The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...

Seamless, effective patient handoffs are a critical piece of any hospital?s patient safety framew...

A key ingredient for success under health care reform will be the ability to utilize health infor...

The Problem Administrative burdens and inefficient processes left nurses spending just one-third...

Evergreen Hospital Medical Center, Kirkland, Wash., implemented best practices in patient flow bu...

Moving from a paper world to an electronic one is an "evolution," says Marcy Stoots, RN, director...