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Hospital Uses EMRs to Avoid Drug Errors
State Attorneys General Question Five-Star Quality Rating System for Nursing Homes
Poorly performing hospitals found near travel hot spots
Hospitals expanding duties of chaplains
August 28, 2009
Weak Link Between Family Health Histories, Chronic Conditions
August 27, 2009
Joint Commission Advocates for Medical Error Prevention
Universal Patient Floor Increases Flow, Decreases Handoffs
Hospitals in Nine States Jeopardize Patient Safety With Lack of H1N1 Readiness
Two-thirds get medical tests with radiation dose
August 26, 2009
Millions May Be Overspent on Purchases Based on Physician Preference
Announcing the 2009 Top Leadership Teams in Healthcare
August 25, 2009
Americans Doubt Healthcare Reform Will Improve Quality, Cost
Pitching patient safety and hospital transparency on YouTube
Hospitals own up to errors
Research trove: Patients' online data
August 24, 2009
No push for national medical-errors database
August 21, 2009
Physician Quality Officer Model Takes on a Successful New Look
Quality of Care May Be Higher in Nonprofit Nursing Homes
August 20, 2009
Many Hospitalized Patients Leave Facilities Against Medical Advice
Most Hospitals Smoke Free by the End of '09
18 Medication Management Measures Released by National Quality Forum
In New Jersey, testing a new doctor-pay method
August 19, 2009
CMS Plans National Quality Indicator Survey implementation
Physician Groups Earn Over $25 Million for Quality Improvements
University of Chicago organ transplant services comes to Evanston Hospital
August 18, 2009
Obama's OSHA Nominee Has His To-Do List Ready
Medicare Distributes $12 Million in Bonuses for Hospital Quality Initiative
August 17, 2009
Medicare test pays for hospital performance
Cedars-Sinai offers a model for fighting some diseases where they start
August 14, 2009
Study urges action to get patients to follow prescriptions
August 13, 2009
Four Ways Health Reform Can Improve Patient Medication Adherence
Massachusetts takes extra steps to battle flu in fall
August 12, 2009
Obama sees savings in hospital readmission payments
August 11, 2009
12 Ways Health Reform May Improve Care and Save Costs
Engineering Tactics Can Identify Broader Inefficiencies in Your Hospital
University of South Florida plans $4 million surgery center
Vaccine trials off to fast start for pandemic flu
'Ventilation outage' delays surgeries at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Do hospitalists improve the quality of care?
August 10, 2009
Safety Net Hospitals Improved Quality with Pay-for-Performance Incentives
Expanding preventive care may add to costs, CBO says
Seniors remain wary of healthcare reform
Within healthcare hides massive, avoidable death toll
Isotope shortage means a healthcare crisis
August 7, 2009
10 'Basic Patient Safety Reforms' to Save 85,000 Lives, $35 Billion
AHRQ Spearheads Effort to Add Patient Voice to Error Reporting
Stanford experiments with drive-through emergency room
August 6, 2009
Pennsylvania heart-surgery report finds improvements
Joint Commission urges parents of hospitalized kids to be vigilant
California nurses protest lack of swine flu equipment
August 5, 2009
Consistent Measures of Quality, Cost Needed to Support Reform Efforts
Medical papers by ghostwriters pushed therapy
August 4, 2009
Don't Get Tagged for Infection Control Deficiencies in the MRI
EDs Can't Sustain Care in Current Economic Environment
Dallas-based Parkland hospital replacing McDonald's with healthier fare
August 3, 2009
Bariatric Study Raises Larger Issues of Healthcare Costs, Quality, and Consumerism