Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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 ...