Healthcare quality issues are a typical legal issue. Healthcare quality issues are a typical legal issue. People who emphasize on serving others must address the ethical and social values. Policy ...

A whole industry is devoted to measuring, tracking and even incentivizing the quality of American hospital care. Unfortunately, that industry is horribly inefficient, costing us billions of dollars.

Editor’s note: Alice Brewer is the senior director of clinical affairs at PDI Healthcare. The latest list of hospitals facing federal penalties for poor quality has been released. Through hospital ...

New research harnessed CMS data to show the connection between high-quality care and lower readmission rates. Researchers examined a hospitalwide readmissions cohort of more than 2.7 million Medicare ...

A March 11 report from the Peterson Center on Healthcare and KFF tracks the performance of healthcare systems over the last few decades. The Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker measured ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

Accessing high-quality healthcare in the United States has become increasingly complex. While technological advances have fostered extraordinary innovation in medicine and digital record keeping, the ...

A new UCLA study reveals that a widely used federal hospital safety metric is fundamentally flawed when applied to emergency stroke care, potentially creating incentives that may discourage hospitals ...

We all know that high quality comes with a higher price. A Mercedes Benz automobile costs more than a Ford. Designer and custom clothing costs more than off-the-rack apparel. A room at the ...

To create leading healthcare institutions, physicians and hospitals must be aligned in multiple areas over a sustained period of time. However, today, the historical basis for a working relationship ...

In health care, nothing's more important than the patient experience, and the industry needs people like you to make safety, quality, and efficiency top priorities. We can give you the healthcare ...