Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improv...

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

While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...

Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

Among the health promotion and cost-control strategies included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...

The current understanding of what drives readmission focuses on the quality of the inpatient disc...

John Combes, M.D., president of the Center for Healthcare Governance, talks to H&HN Senior Online...

Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...

Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...

The U.S. is facing an epidemic of chronic disease at the same time as it's facing tough decisions...

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

Results from the 2010 survey about readmission activities are presented

In late 2010, NAPH administered an online survey to quality directors (or their designee) at 101 ...

The report defines the meaning of value in health care, provides an overview of the current state...

2011 Guidelines