Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The move from volume- to value-based care has profound implications for those who design, build a...

The November issue of Trustee magazine delves into hospital mergers with a cover article featurin...

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

 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...

At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...

Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...

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

Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...

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

Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...

Hospital trustees considering a merger or other affiliation should ask themselves if they are tre...

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

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

One of the most vital strategies in the current health care environment is physician-hospital ali...

Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

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

Using key metrics, MaineHealth gauges its impact on population health The board's challenge--wha...

A recent article from the Los Angeles Times looks at how the traditional doctor-patient relations...

Although primary care is expected to be  safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, an...

Implementing clinical practice guidelines can improve the quality of patient care and positively ...

Rob Olson, MD, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Bellingham, Wash., sold his solo practice when he ...

An article on the SF Gate website profiles the new wave of medical school graduates, millennial a...

A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

A key element of the PCMH model is engaging patients and caregivers in their care. This paper off...

This paper explores the current landscape of patient-centered medical home services for patients ...

This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...

This decision-maker brief offers programmatic and policy changes that can help practices, especia...

This brief describes how decisionmakers can encourage a model of care that truly reflects the nee...

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

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

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

My goal in this article is to use the laws of physics to help readers think in new ways about sha...

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

This article assesses the potential impact of P4P on national hospital disparities using a two-me...

Saving lives and promoting community health certainly are commendable undertakings. To fully real...

This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identifie...

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

This study used written portfolios to capture reflective learning that trainees described about t...

This article discusses the imperitive to invest in community development as a means to improve po...

This article discusses the socioeconomic factors necessary for health in a community. The author ...