This report provides a detailed discussion of baseline health spending by state of residence (per...

December 7th, 2011
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Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improv...

November 29th, 2011
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To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...

November 21st, 2011
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Frequently Asked Questions regarding implementation of the market reform provisions of the Affor...

November 18th, 2011
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Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...

November 16th, 2011
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RWJF video details three perspectives on the need for cost information

November 10th, 2011
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While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...

November 3rd, 2011
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CMS issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for physician...

November 1st, 2011
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Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...

November 1st, 2011
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One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...

November 1st, 2011
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Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

November 1st, 2011
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Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...

October 19th, 2011
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The eighth biennial survey of ACPE members identifies key trends and factors driving today's phys...

October 19th, 2011
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The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

October 18th, 2011
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Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...

October 9th, 2011
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Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...

October 2nd, 2011
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This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

October 1st, 2011
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The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

October 1st, 2011
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This report outlines promising provisions in the Affordable Care Act to achieve improved health a...

October 1st, 2011
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In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...

September 30th, 2011
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While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...

September 22nd, 2011
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Reining in health care costs has become a central policy challenge for government and a pressing ...

September 1st, 2011
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The U.S. is facing an epidemic of chronic disease at the same time as it's facing tough decisions...

September 1st, 2011
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Just three years ago, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center faced falling quality indicators, staff ...

August 29th, 2011

This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

August 19th, 2011
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This sponsored supplement explores the challenges of investing for lower-cost devices, services a...

August 1st, 2011
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Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...

July 29th, 2011
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Through HFMA's Value Project, health care finance leaders are joining their clinical partners to ...

June 1st, 2011
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The report defines the meaning of value in health care, provides an overview of the current state...

May 1st, 2011
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This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

April 1st, 2011
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 The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...

February 1st, 2011
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An NQF endorsement reflects rigorous scientific and evidence-based review, input from patients an...

January 1st, 2011
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This paper discusses how new technologies can be applied to improve the health of populations and...

January 1st, 2011
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