Guides/Reports
American Hospital Association guides and reports for members and the health care field.
Trends in the Overall Health Care Market. Chart 1.1 Total National Health Expenditures, 1980 – 2014.
Trendwatch Chartbook 2016Trends in the Overall Health Care Market Chart 1.1
Information sharing is critical to support providers in their efforts to improve quality, engage patients, advance population health and reduce costs.
The health care system suffers from an overabundance of paper work. Hospitals and health systems can realize improvements and significant savings by increasing the volume of electronic data exchange called for under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountably Act's administrative…
As an advocate for community health needs and patient populations, the nurse executive serves as an agent of change in this strategic effort. Utilizing a cross-walk of the AONE Nurse Executive Competencies and the AONE Nurse Executive Competencies: Post Care Acute, these new competencies are…
Recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has taken significant steps to expand the use of bundled payment programs.
As hospitals increasingly use digital technology to gather, store and share patient information, they also must take steps to ensure data security. Results from the 2015 AHA Most Wired Survey show that the majority of hospitals are already taking many important security steps (see table below),…