The conclusion of H&HN's yearlong series on hospital, community and national efforts to identify ...

December 5th, 2012
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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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A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...

November 26th, 2012
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Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...

November 7th, 2012
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Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...

November 1st, 2012
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Cigna’s Collaborative Accountable Care initiative provides financial incentives to physician grou...

November 1st, 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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Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

August 1st, 2012
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Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...

June 1st, 2012
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Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...

June 1st, 2012
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As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

April 5th, 2012
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In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

March 1st, 2012
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As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

March 1st, 2012
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Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

February 1st, 2012
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NuHealth Nassau University Medical Center identified central line-associated blood stream infecti...

February 1st, 2012
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