What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...

December 3rd, 2012
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In August 2010, the Center for Transforming Healthcare launched its fourth project which aims to ...

November 28th, 2012
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The 2012 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality award winners and finalists are highlighted in this webin...

November 27th, 2012
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One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...

November 26th, 2012
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The November issue of Trustee magazine delves into hospital mergers with a cover article featurin...

November 20th, 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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Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

November 19th, 2012
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A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...

November 19th, 2012
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Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...

November 16th, 2012
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The AMA Principles for Physician Employment are intended to help physicians, those who employ phy...

November 13th, 2012
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In an era of team-based care, nurses are increasingly taking on new leadership roles. Beatrice Ka...

November 12th, 2012
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The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...

November 9th, 2012
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This how-to guide describes the essentials elements of preventing obstetrical adverse events, inc...

November 9th, 2012
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Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...

November 8th, 2012
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Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...

November 8th, 2012
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Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...

November 8th, 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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This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders ...

November 7th, 2012
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"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

November 5th, 2012
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Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...

November 1st, 2012
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