Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...

The Stars of the Field is H&HN's second annual AHA awards issue. Hospitals that are making tremen...

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

Board members have a critical role to play in setting the tone for meaningful quality improvement...

The November issue of Trustee magazine delves into hospital mergers with a cover article featurin...

Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...

Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care deliv...

Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...

This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders ...

Bernard J. Tyson, a Kaiser Permanente employee and leader for 28 years and its chief operating of...

Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...

Hospital trustees considering a merger or other affiliation should ask themselves if they are tre...

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

One of the most vital strategies in the current health care environment is physician-hospital ali...

Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

Using key metrics, MaineHealth gauges its impact on population health The board's challenge--wha...

Although primary care is expected to be  safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, an...

Implementing clinical practice guidelines can improve the quality of patient care and positively ...

A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

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...

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

My goal in this article is to use the laws of physics to help readers think in new ways about sha...

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

Saving lives and promoting community health certainly are commendable undertakings. To fully real...

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...

Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improv...

Ten existential questions will make the difference between limping into the future and soaring to...

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

Success in strategic organizational initiatives depends on changing the way people work together.

While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...

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

Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...

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

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

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

A trip to the emergency department too often conjures up images of crowded waiting rooms and exte...

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