Quality and Safety

Hospitals, universities, Indian tribes, patient advocacy groups and local food banks were among organizations awarded $67 million in federal grants in August to help people sign up for coverage in new online health insurance exchanges that open for enrollment Oct. 1.

Instead of "going to war" to resolve contentious disputes, healthcare companies should employ preemptive dispute resolution procedures in contracts.

Farzad Mostashari, Dick Foster and Uwe Reinhardt lead a panel discussion at Health Datapalooza IV to discuss whether or not the current surge in public and private sector spending on health IT programs is going to reduce healthcare costs.

When it comes to hospital construction and design, the decisions around what is built and how it's built all have significant impact on not only an organization's bottom line, but also the quality of care given to patients.

Physicians are worried about the future. Some are downright pessimistic.

Patient Safety First has helped California hospitals avoid 3,576 deaths and more than $63 million in unnecessary hospital costs between 2009 and 2012.

Lean may be the biggest craze these days in creating efficiencies in hospitals and health systems, but some facilities are having success with a process that got its start at NASA.

America does not have a strategy to deal with the growing demand for long-term care.

To combat potential patient harm and reduce the costs from misdiagnosis, hospitals and medical practices are turning to clinical decision support tools.

Eight-hospital Barnabas Health in New Jersey is launching an accountable care organization program with the state's largest insurer, intended to both lower costs and improve care quality. The ACO go-live date is September 1.