The closed-door discussion focused on the best practices of organizations that have won or were f...

December 7th, 2011
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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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Ten existential questions will make the difference between limping into the future and soaring to...

November 22nd, 2011
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As the largest segment of the health care workforce, with more than 3 million professionals, nurs...

November 17th, 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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Success in strategic organizational initiatives depends on changing the way people work together.

November 10th, 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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Steve Riney, Chief Information Officer at Methodist Medical Center of Illinois in Peoria, talks t...

October 26th, 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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Could changing the staffing model in the intensive care unit reduce patients' risk of dying?Accor...

October 1st, 2011
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This brief, based on site visits from Nov. 2009 through March 2010, highlights care coordination ...

September 26th, 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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A trip to the emergency department too often conjures up images of crowded waiting rooms and exte...

August 1st, 2011
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The latest Alliance issue brief reports on how collaboratives are working at the local level to i...

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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