Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Nurses have always been on the front lines at hospitals providing quality, compassionate care for...

Like many hospitals, SBH Health System uses the computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system. ...

Because the medical center’s lost charge capture related to IV injection and infusions totaled $8...

This project has decreased cycle time for medication reconciliation at time of admission and for ...

The CK-MB Test is a traditional blood test of a cardiac marker used to assist in the diagnosis of...

Studies show lipase to be as sensitive as and more specific than amylase in diagnosing pancreatit...

This year's winners of Health Care's Most Wired Survey are employing information technology to he...

This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

This webinar introduces and explains the ONC-sponsored SAFER guides, which can be found at http:/...

In conjunction with Health Services Research, this webinar showcases health IT developments in th...

Cybersecurity vulnerabilities and intrusions pose risks for every hospital and its reputation. Wh...

The April issue of Health Services Research journal is now available. Covering topics in variati...

A special issue of Health Services Research on “Health Information Technology” is now available. ...

St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare (Glendale, Wis.) 11 hospitals, 70 clinic sites, three long-term ...

Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...

Many of the nation's hospitals and health systems have made progress laying the building blocks f...

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc.,  have had a long-...

Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health p...

After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...

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

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...

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

Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...

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

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

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

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

This fact sheet summarizes the finding from the 2012 Most Wired survey results. The Most Wired s...

This is a collection of resources around computerized physician order entry to assist in implemen...

This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

Transitioning to the new coding system is a mammoth undertaking, one that requires not just signi...

This online executive dialogue explores CPOE implementation. Expert CIOs and CMIOs share their ex...

For the past three years, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center has been develop...

According to a recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society survey, 41 percent of...

Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...

Although electronic reporting systems for near misses and adverse events have been implemented na...

St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...

Strong Memorial Hospital adopted barcode medication administration technology to reduce the incid...

Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...

Go to kp.org with your smartphone, or download the free Kaiser Permanente app at Android Market t...

To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...

Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...

This sponsored supplement explores the challenges of investing for lower-cost devices, services a...

Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...

This paper discusses how new technologies can be applied to improve the health of populations and...

Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...

The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...