Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio, OpenNotes is being tested by...

December 20th, 2011
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The objective of this study was to describe health plan efforts to collect language data from its...

December 1st, 2011
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Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

December 1st, 2011
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About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...

December 1st, 2011
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Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improv...

November 29th, 2011
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Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...

November 21st, 2011
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Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...

November 16th, 2011
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...

November 15th, 2011
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Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

November 14th, 2011
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This webpage gives tips for safely disposing (getting rid of) needles and other sharp devices tha...

November 9th, 2011
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An international survey of adults living with health problems and complex care needs found that p...

November 9th, 2011
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While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...

November 3rd, 2011
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This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...

November 1st, 2011
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This certified CME/CE series is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence-b...

November 1st, 2011
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This certified CME/CE activity addresses professional practice gaps in the optimal care of chroni...

November 1st, 2011
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CMS issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for physician...

November 1st, 2011
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This policy paper examines the latest developments in accountable care organizations (ACOs), incl...

November 1st, 2011
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Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...

November 1st, 2011
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One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...

November 1st, 2011
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HHS final standards for data collection on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language and disability ...

October 31st, 2011
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