This second report in this series expands and explains all three strategies and focuses on patien...

December 18th, 2012
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The move from volume- to value-based care has profound implications for those who design, build a...

December 1st, 2012
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Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

November 29th, 2012
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Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...

November 15th, 2012
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Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care deliv...

November 15th, 2012
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Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...

November 13th, 2012
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At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...

November 12th, 2012
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Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...

November 7th, 2012
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Bernard J. Tyson, a Kaiser Permanente employee and leader for 28 years and its chief operating of...

November 6th, 2012
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The mobile app from HPOE will ensure you receive up-to-date alerts when new HPOE guides are relea...

November 2nd, 2012
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For the last century, the major causes of disease and death among Americans have changed, shiftin...

November 2nd, 2012
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Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...

November 1st, 2012
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In 1996, as the growth in managed care increased the role for general internists and primary care...

November 1st, 2012
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Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

November 1st, 2012
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This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...

October 30th, 2012
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AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

October 30th, 2012
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One of the most vital strategies in the current health care environment is physician-hospital ali...

October 25th, 2012
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In an Oct. 17 webinar presented by Becker's Hospital Review, Scott Becker, a partner at McGuireWo...

October 22nd, 2012
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At-large members are individuals in health care with an interest in the activities of the AHA and...

October 12th, 2012
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The American Organization of Nurse Executives is the national organization of nurses who design, ...

October 11th, 2012
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Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...

October 8th, 2012
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Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

October 2nd, 2012
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Secondary analysis of data from two studies examining palliative care in rural areas was conducte...

October 1st, 2012
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Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

October 1st, 2012
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The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

September 26th, 2012
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Clinical integration is needed to facilitate the coordination of patient care across conditions, ...

September 12th, 2012
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How to solve the problem? Many practices have found the answer in the creation of high-functionin...

September 12th, 2012
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America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...

September 6th, 2012
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An article on the SF Gate website profiles the new wave of medical school graduates, millennial a...

September 3rd, 2012
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Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., des...

August 20th, 2012
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Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...

August 6th, 2012
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Between March and June 2012, Jackson Healthcare conducted a series of online physician surveys th...

August 1st, 2012
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“End of life care,” “serious illness” or “advanced illness” are some of the terms used to categor...

August 1st, 2012
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Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

August 1st, 2012
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A collection of 10 short essays by the industry luminaries who have received HRET's TRUST Award s...

July 19th, 2012
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Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...

July 2nd, 2012
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Partner's created the Center for Connected Health to promote technology-enabled innovations in te...

July 2nd, 2012
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Kaiser maintains a number of operating units to identify and test innovations. The Center for Tot...

July 2nd, 2012
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Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

July 1st, 2012
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As part of Franciscan St. James Health's commitment to improve the surgery processes, the hospita...

June 1st, 2012
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This list features five recommendations for family medicine. The goal is to identify items: commo...

April 1st, 2012
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This list was created by the AAAAI executive committee. The goal is to identify items: common in ...

April 1st, 2012
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The American College of Cardiology asked its standing clinical councils to recommend between thre...

April 1st, 2012
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The group collaboratively identified and narrowed down screening or diagnostic tests commonly use...

April 1st, 2012
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An initial list of topics was narrowed down based on the highest potential for improvement, repre...

April 1st, 2012
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This statistic may surprise you: Mental health conditions and mood disorders including depression...

March 5th, 2012
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This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...

March 1st, 2012
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This decision-maker brief offers programmatic and policy changes that can help practices, especia...

March 1st, 2012
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This guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organ...

March 1st, 2012
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This report utilizes Dartmouth Atlas data to show differences in resource utilization among the 2...

February 6th, 2012
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The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...

February 1st, 2012
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South Nassau Communities Hospital initiated the "Knot So Fast" project to promote a safe and effi...

February 1st, 2012
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Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...

February 1st, 2012
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For the past three years, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center has been develop...

February 1st, 2012
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Traditionally, primary care physicians maintain chief responsibility for treating their criticall...

February 1st, 2012
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In 2006, Southampton Hospital's department of nursing conducted a needs assessment focusing on th...

February 1st, 2012
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Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...

February 1st, 2012
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St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...

February 1st, 2012
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The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...

February 1st, 2012
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AIM focuses care on people with advanced illness, which often involves more than one chronic diag...

January 1st, 2012
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The Respecting Choices' advance care planning program, developed in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is a mu...

January 1st, 2012
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In 2006, Ascension Health, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health care system, chose ...

January 1st, 2012
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Johns Hopkins Health SystemBaltimore, MD912 Beds  The Problem Hopkins ElderPlus is the Programs ...

January 1st, 2012
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Wishard Health ServicesIndianapolis, IN293 Beds  The Problem Geriatric Resources for Assessment ...

January 1st, 2012
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AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...

January 1st, 2012
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Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

January 1st, 2012
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Commonwealth Care Alliance Boston, MA The Problem Commonwealth Care Alliance, which functions bo...

January 1st, 2012
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Summa Health SystemAkron, OH461 Beds The Problem Summa Health System serves a five county region...

January 1st, 2012
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This report provides a guide to conducting health impact assessments. It stresses the importance ...

January 1st, 2012
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