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The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approach utilizing education and development of practice bundles, which, over the past four years, has enabled Children's Healthcare to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections among…
Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems and providers, and this heterogeneity leads to equally variable implications for patient safety. For instance, the priorities for patient safety in an organization in the midst of an EHR rollout differ…
Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fact, they have occurred for at least 25 years. Until recently, nonprofits were employing this type of transaction to address their need for capital without 'selling out' and losing control over a vital…
Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, discuss the evolution of hospital/physician relationships from alignment to engagement and integration as a critical path for the improved performance necessary to achieve greater value. They focus on the…
As the patient-centered medical home model gains momentum, providers must strike a balance between evidence-based best practices and patient care preferences. Donald Lurye, M.D., CEO of the Elmhurst Clinic in Illinois, talks to H&HN Senior Editor Suzanna Hoppszallern about managing this…
Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary team of providers to manage symptoms and pain, provide emotional and spiritual support, and educate patients and family members on an ongoing basis about changes in the patient's condition. One…
This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders are facing as they move into 2013. It is written within the context of health care consolidation that is occurring at all levels.
Three hazards involve health IT system-related technologies While today's health technology advances provide countless new ways to improve patient care, some also create new opportunities for harm. And with the evolution of health care information technology systems such as electronic health…
Bernard J. Tyson, a Kaiser Permanente employee and leader for 28 years and its chief operating officer and president for the last two, will take over from retiring chairman and CEO George Halvorson in a series of steps over the next six months. Halvorson announced in October that he would step down…
Efforts to improve U.S. health care must include payment reforms that encourage greater efficiency and reduce waste. Over the past six years, 25 states have pursued changes in how their two major public insurance programs for low-income families—Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance…