Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

This articles argues that now is the time to integrate public health and primary care in a way th...

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

Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...

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

Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...

 For baby boomers, the peak interest in health issues comes at about age 51, with a second peak c...

Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care deliv...

A monograph from the Association of American Medical Colleges, in partnership with the Institute ...

Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...

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

This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders ...

Health care reform presents academic health centers with an opportunity to test new systems of ca...

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

At the 2012 American Public Health Association annual meeting, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation spo...

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

It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...

The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

AHRMM is the premier membership group for health care supply chain and materials management profe...

AHVRP, a professional membership group of the AHA,  is the premier professional membership societ...

With more than 11,000 members, ASHE is the largest association devoted to optimizing the health c...

ASHHRA of the AHA, is the leading membership organization exclusively dedicated to meeting the pr...

Established in 1980, ASHRM is a personal membership group of the AHA with nearly 6,000 members re...

SHCA is a not-for-profit health care organization dedicated to serving those who advocate in the ...

SHSMD is the premier organization for 4,000 health care professionals responsible for strategy de...

Health Forum provides communications, information, education and research products and services t...

This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community...

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

This webinar introduces strategies to increase physical activity through community design.

The Association for the Healthcare Environment represents directors, managers, supervisors, suppl...

Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

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

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

PLF hosted a session on achieving team-based health care delivery. David Nash, MD, founding dean ...

The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...

This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

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

Fully two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. One-third of American children are overwei...

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

This article discusses divergent concepts of population health between care delivery systems and ...

Although Maryland enjoys the third highest median income in the United States, the state suffers ...

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

During this webinar, hear how AnMed Health is applying the principles of REaL (race, ethnicity an...

Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...

Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...

This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...

For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...