Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) released the Nurse Executive Competencies: P...

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

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

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

This issue brief continues the program’s examination of state-level community benefit oversight b...

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

This article discusses how using health adjusted life expectacy could bridge the gap between clin...

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

This article aims to define the term "healthy communities" based on existing literature on the to...

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

This report from the Department of Health and Human Services describes a plan to bolster implemen...

This report indentifies and explains guiding principles to inform the implementation ofCommunity ...

This report details the Institute of Medicine's roundtable on population health improvement and d...

This report discusses strategies to help health care leaders prioritize three foundational elemen...

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

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

Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...

Three hazards involve health IT system-related technologies While today's health technology adva...

This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...

Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...

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

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

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

This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to  better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...

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

This report provides a guide to conducting health impact assessments. It stresses the importance ...

This report discusses the necessity of health information technology to effectively and systemati...

This report provides a detailed discussion of baseline health spending by state of residence (per...

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

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

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

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

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

Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...

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

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

The Rand Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their hea...

Reining in health care costs has become a central policy challenge for government and a pressing ...

This 46-page document reviews the history of Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives and consi...

This paper discusses how new technologies can be applied to improve the health of populations and...

This report discussses the Center for Disease Control's involvement with Prevention Research Cent...

This report discusses the process of conducting a Health Impact Assessment and proposes a busines...