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Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...
Care coordination is challenging for complex and vulnerable patient populations. Montefiore Medic...
This report provides a detailed discussion of baseline health spending by state of residence (per...
Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...
Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improv...
To promote healthy communities, hospitals must lead the way and serve as role models. A recent AH...
Ten existential questions will make the difference between limping into the future and soaring to...
Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...
To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...
Frequently Asked Questions regarding implementation of the market reform provisions of the Affor...
Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...
Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...
Success in strategic organizational initiatives depends on changing the way people work together.
RWJF video details three perspectives on the need for cost information
In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...
Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...
While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...
CMS issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for physician...
Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...
One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...
Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...
Implementing a sustainability program requires significant cultural change and time. A good place...
This annual webinar highlights thhe 2011 AHA-McKesson Quest forQuality winners and finalists. 20...
Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...
The eighth biennial survey of ACPE members identifies key trends and factors driving today's phys...
The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...
Restructuring care has reduced readmissions at St. Mary?s Duluth (MN) Clinic Heart and Vascular ...
Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...
The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...
A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...
According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...
Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...
This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...
The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...
The Leapfrog Group, a consortium of public and private employers who purchase health care for mor...
Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...
The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...
The business adage "what gets measured gets managed" applies in health care. Two projects focus o...
The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...
This report outlines promising provisions in the Affordable Care Act to achieve improved health a...
In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...
While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...
The answer is: attracting, retaining and developing the best workforce. The question: What is one...
This webpage gives consumers resources and tools to be actively engaged in the quality of the car...
Overcoming transition challenges requires tenacity and teamwork. During a time of transition befo...
Reining in health care costs has become a central policy challenge for government and a pressing ...
The U.S. is facing an epidemic of chronic disease at the same time as it's facing tough decisions...
The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...
Just three years ago, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center faced falling quality indicators, staff ...
This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...
Efficient bed placement for patients can mean fewer discharge delays, decreased length of stay an...
Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...
This sponsored supplement explores the challenges of investing for lower-cost devices, services a...
A trip to the emergency department too often conjures up images of crowded waiting rooms and exte...
Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...
Responding to an explosive growth in patient population, Yale-New Haven Hospital implemented a su...
As America's hospitals and health systems are transforming care, hospitals are facing challenges ...
Throughout the United States, allied hospital associations—state, regional and metropolitan—are w...
Electronic health records may create less paperwork, but documentation can still be time-consumin...
An integrated approach to project design drove breakthrough improvement in operating results at S...
Through HFMA's Value Project, health care finance leaders are joining their clinical partners to ...
Labor and delivery departments are busy places. At New York-Presbyterian, providing appropriate b...
The report defines the meaning of value in health care, provides an overview of the current state...
Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...
"Navigating the rising tide of HACs" is what Baystate Medical Center (BMC) calls this project. A ...
This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...
Timely access to health care is important for everyone, particularly our nation's veterans. From ...
A focus on wellness to provide better health and better health care is part of the AHA's Health F...
The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...
The journey from good to great for Good Samaritan Hospital of Baltimore started with differentiat...
An NQF endorsement reflects rigorous scientific and evidence-based review, input from patients an...
This paper discusses how new technologies can be applied to improve the health of populations and...