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HealthLeaders Media QualityLeaders offers weekly reports on the top quality issues facing healthcare leaders. It also features audio interviews with industry experts, along with expert analysis, top headlines, news briefs and research reports. December 30, 2010 - Issue 50
   $3 Million Prize Offered to Solve Hospitalization Admissions Puzzle December 16, 2010 - Issue 49
   Readmissions Reduction Effort At Kaiser Involves Cameras December 9, 2010 - Issue 48
   IHI Forum Reflections: 10 ’Aha’ Moments December 2, 2010 - Issue 47
   What Disney Can Teach Hospitals About Patient-Centered Care November 18, 2010 - Issue 46
   End-of-Life Care is Often Futile, Costly November 11, 2010 - Issue 45
   How Providers First Did More Harm This Week November 4, 2010 - Issue 44
   Doctors Take Umbrage at Physicians' Porsche Promo October 28, 2010 - Issue 43
   Winners (and Losers) in the Quality Race for Cash October 21, 2010 - Issue 42
   Behind the Huge Variations in Dialysis Patient Mortality October 14, 2010 - Issue 41
   Wrong Site Surgeries Still a Threat October 7, 2010 - Issue 40
   A Modest Proposal: Pay More for Care Only if It's Better September 30, 2010 - Issue 39
   4 Signs of Surgeons' Inattention in the OR September 23, 2010 - Issue 38
   Hospital Workflow Redesign Could Save Lives September 16, 2010 - Issue 37
   Berwick Pushes for Quality September 9, 2010 - Issue 36
   Reexamining the Ethics of Personal Responsibility September 2, 2010 - Issue 35
   Feds Tout 'Blue Button' for Health Data August 26, 2010 - Issue 34
   Quality Improvement Initiatives Raise Ethics Questions August 19, 2010 - Issue 33
   Diabetes Prescription Program Targets Nutrition August 12, 2010 - Issue 32
   Can the Inpatient Communication Gap Be Bridged? August 5, 2010 - Issue 31
   Can We Reach Our Health Potential? July 29, 2010 - Issue 30
   Patients Reading Their Physicians' Notes Online: A Sign of the Times? July 22, 2010 - Issue 29
   Culture Change Key To Safety, Quality Improvements July 15, 2010 - Issue 28
   National Database Needed for HAI Tracking July 1, 2010 - Issue 27
   Could Medicare Quality Payment Plans Create Inequality? June 24, 2010 - Issue 25
   A New Role for Quality in Medical Liability Reform June 17, 2010 - Issue 24
   Holding the Ground on Super Bugs June 10, 2010 - Issue 23
   Getting Past the Complexity June 3, 2010 - Issue 22
   Using HHS Health Data: Got an App for Quality Care? May 27, 2010 - Issue 21
   Making Improved Medication IQ Part of the Treatment May 20, 2010 - Issue 20
   Lessons Learned from Vermont on Building Community ACOs May 13, 2010 - Issue 19
   What Happens When Quality Payment Incentives Stop? May 6, 2010 - Issue 18
   Should Hospital CEO Salaries Be Cut If Care Quality Fails? April 29, 2010 - Issue 17
   Can EMRs Lead to a Failure to Communicate? April 22, 2010 - Issue 16
   Are Hospital Rankings Popularity Contests or Measures of Quality? April 15, 2010 - Issue 15
   Five Barriers to Post-Reform Efficiency April 8, 2010 - Issue 14
   Large Healthcare Purchaser Takes Risky Leap Into ACOs April 1, 2010 - Issue 13
   The Key to a High-Performance Multihospital System March 25, 2010 - Issue 12
   Last-Minute Heath Reform Change Gives New Life to Quality-Based Payments March 18, 2010 - Issue 11
   Can 'Deadly Deliveries' Be a Wake-Up Call to Physicians, Hospitals? March 11, 2010 - Issue 10
   Patient Engagement Occurs One Step at a Time March 4, 2010 - Issue 9
   Balancing Radiation Risks, Benefits, and Quality February 25, 2010 - Issue 8
   The Quality Quandary: When Less Is More and More Is Less February 18, 2010 - Issue 7
   Use Medical Checklists as Tools, Not Cure-Alls, for Patient Safety Problems February 11, 2010 - Issue 6
   Quality Challenges from Within: Findings from the HealthLeaders Media Industry Survey 2010 February 4, 2010 - Issue 5
   Seeking Quality Healthcare for Today's Seniors January 28, 2010 - Issue 4
   Reducing Readmissions: Are Quality Payments a Carrot or Stick? January 21, 2010 - Issue 3
   Episode-Based Payments: Finding A New Way to Pay for Quality Care January 14, 2010 - Issue 2
   Making the Family Caregiver a Part of the Healthcare Team January 7, 2010 - Issue 1
   Getting Everyone on the Same Page to Achieve Healthcare Value