Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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