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

December 3rd, 2012
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What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...

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

November 15th, 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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Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

November 12th, 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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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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Bernard J. Tyson, a Kaiser Permanente employee and leader for 28 years and its chief operating of...

November 6th, 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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The mobile app from HPOE will ensure you receive up-to-date alerts when new HPOE guides are relea...

November 2nd, 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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Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...

November 1st, 2012
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Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

November 1st, 2012
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Hospital trustees considering a merger or other affiliation should ask themselves if they are tre...

November 1st, 2012
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Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...

November 1st, 2012
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The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...

October 30th, 2012
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When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...

October 30th, 2012
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One of the most vital strategies in the current health care environment is physician-hospital ali...

October 25th, 2012
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Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

October 25th, 2012
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Beginning in 2014, the reporting of clinical quality measures will change for all providers. Elec...

October 25th, 2012
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In an Oct. 17 webinar presented by Becker's Hospital Review, Scott Becker, a partner at McGuireWo...

October 22nd, 2012
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Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...

October 22nd, 2012
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...

October 22nd, 2012
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The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

October 16th, 2012
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A just culture. A culture of transparency. A patient-first culture. Culture transformation at Uni...

October 15th, 2012
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AHRMM is the premier membership group for health care supply chain and materials management profe...

October 12th, 2012
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AHVRP, a professional membership group of the AHA,  is the premier professional membership societ...

October 12th, 2012
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With more than 11,000 members, ASHE is the largest association devoted to optimizing the health c...

October 12th, 2012
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ASHHRA of the AHA, is the leading membership organization exclusively dedicated to meeting the pr...

October 12th, 2012
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Established in 1980, ASHRM is a personal membership group of the AHA with nearly 6,000 members re...

October 12th, 2012
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SHSMD is the premier organization for 4,000 health care professionals responsible for strategy de...

October 12th, 2012
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Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

October 11th, 2012
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The American Organization of Nurse Executives is the national organization of nurses who design, ...

October 11th, 2012
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Health Forum provides communications, information, education and research products and services t...

October 11th, 2012
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Today's hospital leaders are in need of products and services to help them meet growing efficienc...

October 10th, 2012
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Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

October 10th, 2012
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An Alliance for Health Reform toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

October 10th, 2012
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This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community...

October 8th, 2012
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Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

October 2nd, 2012
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Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

October 1st, 2012
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