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 ...

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...

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 ...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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