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

August 10th, 2015
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This blog post is from H&HN, the journal of the American Hospital Association and was written by ...

June 9th, 2015
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Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, the flagship publication of the AHA, has put together a web...

July 17th, 2013
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Many of the nation's hospitals and health systems have made progress laying the building blocks f...

July 17th, 2013
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Board members have a critical role to play in setting the tone for meaningful quality improvement...

July 17th, 2013
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Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fe...

February 7th, 2013
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Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders were at a higher risk of po...

January 1st, 2013
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The November issue of Trustee magazine delves into hospital mergers with a cover article featurin...

November 20th, 2012
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Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...

November 16th, 2012
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Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...

November 8th, 2012
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This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders ...

November 7th, 2012
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Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...

November 1st, 2012
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Hospital trustees considering a merger or other affiliation should ask themselves if they are tre...

November 1st, 2012
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When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...

October 30th, 2012
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Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

October 25th, 2012
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The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

October 16th, 2012
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Implementing clinical practice guidelines can improve the quality of patient care and positively ...

September 12th, 2012
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A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

August 1st, 2012
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This online executive dialogue explores CPOE implementation. Expert CIOs and CMIOs share their ex...

March 1st, 2012
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Transitioning to the new coding system is a mammoth undertaking, one that requires not just signi...

March 1st, 2012
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According to a recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society survey, 41 percent of...

February 1st, 2012
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This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...

January 1st, 2012
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This study used written portfolios to capture reflective learning that trainees described about t...

January 1st, 2012
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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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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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Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

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

October 26th, 2011
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John Combes, M.D., president of the Center for Healthcare Governance, talks to H&HN Senior Online...

October 24th, 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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Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...

October 2nd, 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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This sponsored supplement explores the challenges of investing for lower-cost devices, services a...

August 1st, 2011
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Results from the 2010 survey about readmission activities are presented

June 1st, 2011
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In late 2010, NAPH administered an online survey to quality directors (or their designee) at 101 ...

June 1st, 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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