Guides/Reports
American Hospital Association guides and reports for members and the health care field.
Reducing postoperative complications could reduce costs associated with readmissions by millions of dollars per year, a retrospective study of data on 90,932 patients from 214 hospitals suggests.
In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services asked the IOM to evaluate health IT safety concerns and to recommend ways that both government and the private sector can make patient care safer using health IT. The IOM finds that safe use of health IT…
Implementing a sustainability program requires significant cultural change and time. A good place to start is by examining what comes out of the facility. Waste reduction involves the diversion of waste from landfills through recycling, source reduction, reuse, repurposing and composting. Eighty…
The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stronger incentives for health care providers and organizations to prioritize quality; improving education, training, and technical assistance for providers; leveraging electronic health records or other…
One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bundled payment, which provides payment for all of the care a patient needs over the course of a defined clinical episode, instead of paying for each discrete service. We evaluated the initial “road…
Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements into a single payment for the entire episode. We found that current Medicare episode payments for certain inpatient procedures varied by 49–130 percent across hospitals sorted into five…
The federal Affordable Care Act will transform how Californians obtain health insurance. CHCF examines what the law means for the state, and the building blocks moving forward.
This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models that deliver primary care in a variety of settings, identifies barriers to innovation, and outlines prospects for the future.
The IOM's Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from the federal government, foundations, health plans, associations, and private companies to discuss challenges related to health literacy and to identify approaches to promoting health literacy in both the public and private…
The eighth biennial survey of ACPE members identifies key trends and factors driving today's physician executive compensation and serves as a reference resource for physician executives and health care organizations developing leadership roles for physicians. There is a cost to view this…