Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...

A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...

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

Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...

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

Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care deliv...

The AMA Principles for Physician Employment are intended to help physicians, those who employ phy...

Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

In an era of team-based care, nurses are increasingly taking on new leadership roles. Beatrice Ka...

Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...

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

Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...

Three hazards involve health IT system-related technologies While today's health technology adva...

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

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

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

The mobile app from HPOE will ensure you receive up-to-date alerts when new HPOE guides are relea...

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

Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...

Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

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

Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...

The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...

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...

Beginning in 2014, the reporting of clinical quality measures will change for all providers. Elec...

In an Oct. 17 webinar presented by Becker's Hospital Review, Scott Becker, a partner at McGuireWo...

Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...

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

A just culture. A culture of transparency. A patient-first culture. Culture transformation at Uni...

AHRMM is the premier membership group for health care supply chain and materials management profe...

AHVRP, a professional membership group of the AHA,  is the premier professional membership societ...

With more than 11,000 members, ASHE is the largest association devoted to optimizing the health c...

ASHHRA of the AHA, is the leading membership organization exclusively dedicated to meeting the pr...

Established in 1980, ASHRM is a personal membership group of the AHA with nearly 6,000 members re...

SHSMD is the premier organization for 4,000 health care professionals responsible for strategy de...

Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

The American Organization of Nurse Executives is the national organization of nurses who design, ...

Health Forum provides communications, information, education and research products and services t...

Today's hospital leaders are in need of products and services to help them meet growing efficienc...

Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

An Alliance for Health Reform toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community...

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

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

There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit, produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundat...

Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

The Association for the Healthcare Environment represents directors, managers, supervisors, suppl...

The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in M...

Clinical integration is needed to facilitate the coordination of patient care across conditions, ...

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

On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  released a final regulation for the ne...

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

There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

Authored by Kaufman Hall executives, this guide describes the groundwork and prerequisites requir...

This fact sheet summarizes the finding from the 2012 Most Wired survey results. The Most Wired s...

The American Hospital Association's Physician Leadership Forum helps physicians and hospitals adv...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

PLF hosted a session on achieving team-based health care delivery. David Nash, MD, founding dean ...

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

Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

This is a collection of resources around computerized physician order entry to assist in implemen...

UNC Hospitals is committed to providing a patient-centered care environment. A team of leaders is...

A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...

A collection of 10 short essays by the industry luminaries who have received HRET's TRUST Award s...