Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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...

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Protecting workers from exposure to all types of respiratory hazards is an important issue for ho...

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

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

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

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

A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...

Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

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

Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

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

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

There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

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

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

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

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

RWJF video details three perspectives on the need for cost information

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

Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...

One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...

Implementing a sustainability program requires significant cultural change and time. A good place...

The eighth biennial survey of ACPE members identifies key trends and factors driving today's phys...

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

According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...

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

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

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

The business adage "what gets measured gets managed" applies in health care. Two projects focus o...

The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

This report outlines promising provisions in the Affordable Care Act to achieve improved health a...

While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...

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

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

The report recommends improved ways in which primary care practices should be paid for delivering...