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

December 20th, 2011
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Carolinas HealthCare System, based in Charlotte, N.C., is partnering with 12 YMCA branches "to cr...

December 19th, 2011
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The closed-door discussion focused on the best practices of organizations that have won or were f...

December 7th, 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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In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...

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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In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it ...

December 1st, 2011
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To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...

November 21st, 2011
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Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...

November 16th, 2011
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Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

November 16th, 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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In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

November 8th, 2011
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Reducing postoperative complications could reduce costs associated with readmissions by millions ...

November 8th, 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 activity is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence...

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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The IOM's Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from the federal government, foun...

November 1st, 2011
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This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...

November 1st, 2011
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As the use of palliative care grows, so does the diversity of patients who opt for it. A free cur...

November 1st, 2011
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