Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

December 1st, 2011
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Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...

November 21st, 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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Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

November 14th, 2011
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In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

November 8th, 2011
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Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...

November 7th, 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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Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

November 1st, 2011
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This annual webinar highlights thhe 2011 AHA-McKesson  Quest forQuality winners and finalists. 20...

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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Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...

October 9th, 2011
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According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

October 3rd, 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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Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

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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While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...

September 22nd, 2011
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The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

September 1st, 2011
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This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

August 19th, 2011
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Efficient bed placement for patients can mean fewer discharge delays, decreased length of stay an...

August 8th, 2011
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Throughout the United States, allied hospital associations—state, regional and metropolitan—are w...

July 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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