How to Choose the Right Care for Progressive Disease
By reducing the utilization of nonbeneficial care — care that increases costs without a concomitant increase in value — health care can move closer toward achieving the Triple Aim.
View ArticleNurse Watch: The Future of Nursing a Little Better; Praising Nursing Assistants
Here’s some news in the nursing space that caught our eyes. Watch for more Nurse Watch every Wednesday in H&HN Daily.
View ArticleTelemedicine Hits Its Stride
Telemedicine’s rebirth can be attributed to its usefulness as both a potential cost lever and an avenue to deliver expanded routine and specialty care.
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: The Big Heart of Barney Clark
The legacy of the world's first artificial heart patient, Barney Clark, who lived for 112 days with a polyurethane and aluminum heart.
View ArticleDon Berwick Offers Health Care 9 Steps to End Era of 'Complex Incentives' and...
Former CMS administrator believes that relationships will be the foundation on which the next era of health care is built.
View ArticleWeekly Reading: Netflix's Approach to Predicting Care Needs; New Jobs in...
Health care news you might have missed from around the Web this week.
View ArticleEight Recommendations to Drastically Improve Patient Safety
The National Patient Safety Foundation revisits 'To Err is Human' and renews the call to action for safer care.
View ArticleHow Hospitals Can Partner with, Engage Patients and Families to Improve Care
Use this comprehensive list of resources to develop and implement your patient engagement strategies.
View ArticlePediatrician's Care Coordination Effort Helps Patients With Complex Needs
Stephanie Gehres, M.D., helps kids with complex conditions and their families navigate the health care system.
View ArticleNew York City aims to improve care coordination for immigrants
Displeased with the Affordable Care Act’s lack of solutions to improve care for immigrants, New York City is taking the matter into it owns hands and fashioning answers others might emulate.
View ArticleHospitals Improve Health by Helping to Get Homeless Off the Streets
Keeping people healthy while they are living on the streets or in a shelter is a difficult task, which is why a growing number of hospitals and other community organizations are fighting that battle...
View ArticleLooking Ahead in 2016: Top 10 Trends in Health Care
Keeping pace with local market changes will require foresight and nimble leadership. Watch for these potential change “accelerators” for 2016.
View ArticleNQF Aims to Set Standards for Patient Decision Aids
Any doubt about the consumer revolution in health care should be erased by the announcement that the National Qualify Forum is preparing for the day when consumers have more control.
View ArticleHospitals Increasingly Add Birth Centers to Labor and Delivery Offerings
Hospitals are aiming to retool every service they offer, in order to provide care in a more convenient, less costly fashion. Labor and delivery may be next to command leaders' attention.
View ArticleHospitals Backing Increased Use of Opioid Antidote
Looking to quicken administration of the drug, hospitals help to get police officers trained in delivery.
View ArticleHow to Proactively Manage Self-Funded Employer Health Plans
As more patients join self-funded plans, hospitals face new challenges regarding billing and collection.
View ArticleLifting ICU Visitation Restrictions Improves Family Satisfaction: Study
Improving patient and family satisfaction is on the minds of hospitals and health systems across the country, and, according to one study, developing more flexible visitation policies that focus on...
View ArticleHospital Alliance Promotes Female Heart Disease Awareness With Women-to-Women...
The group seeks to maintain awareness for this underestimated threat.
View ArticleStepping Up Against Sepsis
These hospitals have shown that a coordinated, low-cost strategy dramatically reduces infection and mortality. It’s an approach others may want to adopt.
View ArticleA Primer On Sepsis
Despite its burden on patients and the health care system, sepsis has not received as much attention as some other treatable conditions. That is because it is more challenging in a few ways.
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