Since September 2015, the American Hospital Association (AHA)/Health Research & Educational Trust...

October 3rd, 2016
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A new report from MHA and Collaborative Healthcare Strategies— State of the State: Reducing Readm...

March 30th, 2016
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The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) released the Nurse Executive Competencies: P...

January 19th, 2016

In this study, the research team sought to compare the performance of provider-sponsored health p...

December 4th, 2015
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This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

July 6th, 2015
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This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

July 1st, 2015
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Protecting workers from exposure to all types of respiratory hazards is an important issue for ho...

May 15th, 2015
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This issue brief continues the program’s examination of state-level community benefit oversight b...

June 10th, 2014
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The Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides are a suite of tools that include ...

January 16th, 2014
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The 2014 AHA Chair-elect Jonathan  Perlin, MD, co-authored this paper and companion financial mod...

January 10th, 2014
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This article discusses how using health adjusted life expectacy could bridge the gap between clin...

October 25th, 2013
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This brief focuses on updating significant points concerning community health needs assessment an...

October 1st, 2013
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This toolkit helps track community partnerships, assess opportunities for increased engagement an...

September 18th, 2013
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This report discusses the importance of health in all policies, an approach to improving health b...

September 18th, 2013
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This article aims to define the term "healthy communities" based on existing literature on the to...

July 25th, 2013
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In California, about 16 percent of the adult population, more than 4 million people, have mental ...

July 17th, 2013
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This report from the Department of Health and Human Services describes a plan to bolster implemen...

July 2nd, 2013
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This report indentifies and explains guiding principles to inform the implementation ofCommunity ...

June 1st, 2013
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This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in fede...

March 1st, 2013
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This book provides practical skills for building communities. Chapters three, four and five addre...

January 1st, 2013
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This report details the Institute of Medicine's roundtable on population health improvement and d...

January 1st, 2013
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This report discusses strategies to help health care leaders prioritize three foundational elemen...

January 1st, 2013
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This report identifies steps that policy, public health and community stakeholders can take to pr...

January 1st, 2013
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In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

December 3rd, 2012
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Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

November 29th, 2012
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A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...

November 26th, 2012
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Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

November 20th, 2012
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Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

November 19th, 2012
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The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...

November 16th, 2012
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While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...

November 13th, 2012
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Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...

November 13th, 2012
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Three hazards involve health IT system-related technologies While today's health technology adva...

November 7th, 2012
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Efforts to improve U.S. health care must include payment reforms that encourage greater efficienc...

November 5th, 2012
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For the last century, the major causes of disease and death among Americans have changed, shiftin...

November 2nd, 2012
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The Association of American Medical Colleges is pleased to present Diversity in Medical Education...

November 1st, 2012
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Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...

November 1st, 2012
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Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

November 1st, 2012
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Medicaid is the nation's health coverage program for the low-income population, covering , more t...

November 1st, 2012
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For the  last 15 years, public hospitals have pursued multiple strategies to help maintain financ...

November 1st, 2012
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This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...

October 30th, 2012
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Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...

October 30th, 2012
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Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

October 10th, 2012
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Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

October 10th, 2012
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Standardization of blood utilization practices could provide opportunity for improved outcomes, r...

October 9th, 2012
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Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

October 1st, 2012
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Accelerating Care Integration Lack of care coordination and integration was identified as a majo...

October 1st, 2012
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Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

October 1st, 2012
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The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

September 26th, 2012
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How to solve the problem? Many practices have found the answer in the creation of high-functionin...

September 12th, 2012
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A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic level...

September 9th, 2012
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Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

September 9th, 2012
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There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

September 7th, 2012
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America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...

September 6th, 2012
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The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

September 1st, 2012
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Objective: Rates of venous thromboembolism as high as 58 percent have been reported after trauma,...

August 1st, 2012
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This toolkit presents Muskegon County's Community Health Needs Assessment  process and results, a...

August 1st, 2012
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This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to  better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...

June 1st, 2012
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The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...

April 1st, 2012
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This guide provides techniques, case studies and guiding principles from various fields of expert...

March 1st, 2012
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This report utilizes Dartmouth Atlas data to show differences in resource utilization among the 2...

February 6th, 2012
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The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

January 1st, 2012
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This report provides a guide to conducting health impact assessments. It stresses the importance ...

January 1st, 2012
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This report discusses the necessity of health information technology to effectively and systemati...

January 1st, 2012
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This report discusses the strenghts of community disease prevention offers and presents a framewo...

January 1st, 2012
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This report provides a detailed discussion of baseline health spending by state of residence (per...

December 7th, 2011
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Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

December 1st, 2011
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In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...

December 1st, 2011
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About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...

December 1st, 2011
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In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it ...

December 1st, 2011
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Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have the promise to transform how health care is delivered ...

November 22nd, 2011
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To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...

November 21st, 2011
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During this 90 minute session, speakers discussed how to effectively engage patients and their fa...

November 17th, 2011
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Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

November 16th, 2011
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...

November 15th, 2011
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RWJF video details three perspectives on the need for cost information

November 10th, 2011
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An international survey of adults living with health problems and complex care needs found that p...

November 9th, 2011
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In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

November 8th, 2011
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Reducing postoperative complications could reduce costs associated with readmissions by millions ...

November 8th, 2011
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The IOM's Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from the federal government, foun...

November 1st, 2011
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This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...

November 1st, 2011
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The federal Affordable Care Act will transform how Californians obtain health insurance. CHCF exa...

November 1st, 2011
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Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...

November 1st, 2011
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One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...

November 1st, 2011
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The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...

November 1st, 2011
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Implementing a sustainability program requires significant cultural change and time. A good place...

November 1st, 2011
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Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

October 19th, 2011
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The eighth biennial survey of ACPE members identifies key trends and factors driving today's phys...

October 19th, 2011
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The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...

October 13th, 2011
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A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...

October 4th, 2011
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According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

October 3rd, 2011
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The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...

October 1st, 2011
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This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the ...

October 1st, 2011
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The Leapfrog Group, a consortium of public and private employers who purchase health care for mor...

October 1st, 2011
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Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

October 1st, 2011
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The new Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide released by WHO Patient Safety in Octo...

October 1st, 2011
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In a recent study, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranks 16th out of 16 nati...

October 1st, 2011
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The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

October 1st, 2011
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The business adage "what gets measured gets managed" applies in health care. Two projects focus o...

October 1st, 2011
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The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

October 1st, 2011
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