The One Tool You Need to Measure Patient Safety and Quality
Calculating a total patient harm rate helps hospitals to learn where they need to focus improvement efforts.
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: The Forgotten Pandemic
In 1918, Spanish flu kills more than half a million Americans and millions more around the world.
View ArticleClinical Integration is Changing Pediatric Care
Phoenix Children's Hospital shares lessons from creating a first-of-its-kind pediatric clinically integrated organization.
View ArticleLeading Health System Aims to Get Ahead of Health Care's Yelp-ification
North Shore-LIJ begins posting online reviews of medical group docs to help spur them to improve the patient experience.
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Nation's First Hospital Got a Boost from a Guy Named Ben
Thomas Bond had the idea but Ben Franklin the clout, and in 1751 Pennsylvania Hospital got a charter. It boasts a lot of firsts in U.S. health care.
View ArticleTaking a Page from Racing and Aviation to Build Elite Health Care Teams
How MD Anderson Cancer Center has assembled ‘mission critical' teams of providers to help ensure the safest, highest quality care possible.
View ArticleHow Iowa's Largest Insurer has Saved Millions by Strengthening its Ties to...
Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield has successfully bent the cost curve by building ACO relationships with providers across the state.
View ArticleOvercoming Interoperability Gaps in Population Health
Direct secure messaging and mobile health apps can help to connect providers.
View Article5 Rules for Rethinking Your Hospital's Strategy
Too often, a hospital's strategy focuses on the short-term. To succeed in the new health care environment, executives and trustees must focus on these five fundamental issues.
View ArticleDoes Prevention Save Money for Hospitals?
Not the way we do it now. But smart prevention has proven its value — and cuts costs.
View Article2016 American Hospital Association Environmental Scan
The 2016 American Hospital Association Environmental Scan provides insight and information about market forces that have a high probability of affecting the health care field.
View ArticleCarilion Clinic Medical Home Improves Chronic Care
The Carilion Clinic adapts and improves chronic care with a patient-centered medical home.
View ArticleDiversity in Health Management Leader Gives Insight on Leading Minority...
Tomás León explains his priorities for the Institute for Diversity in Health Management
View ArticleInvesting in Innovation to Disrupt Health Care's Status Quo
Health systems are putting money behind start-up companies to solve some of health care's biggest problems.
View ArticleNew Information on Sleep Deprivation in Kids, The Dangers of Wearing Contact...
A roundup of new information including facts on antibiotics prescribed for children, toothaches treated in the emergency department, and more.
View ArticlePutting the Plan in Motion: Parkland Hospitals Successful Move
Executives and staff at Parkland Hospital in Dallas had been planning for the move to a new 862-bed hospital for more than a year. So, when the time came to transfer 626 patients in late August,...
View ArticleRiding Bikes to Raise Funds for Cancer Research
Dana-Faber oncologist joins the bike pack to raise funds to explore unusual ideas about the disease.
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Black-Owned Hospital was Pride of Excluded Class
In this week's Throwback Thursday, we go back to 1891, when segregation was commonplace and a black surgeon rallied supporters to open a 12-bed facility on Chicago's South Side.
View ArticleNeither Shaken nor Stirred; Nice News for Once; and Pouring Wine Down the Drain
Health care news you might have missed from around the Web this week.
View Article
