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Evidence-Based Medicine: The Present and Future of Hospital Care

While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and processes of care, there are still several challenges chief medical officers will have to face, ranging from
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Large Variations In Medicare Payments For Surgery Highlight Savings Potential From Bundled Payment Programs

Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements into a single payment for the entire episode.
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The PROMETHEUS Bundled Payment Experiment: Slow Start Shows Problems In Implementing New Payment Models

One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bundled payment, which provides payment for all of the care a patient needs over the course of a defined cl
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Impact of Bundled Payments—Opportunities and Threats to Nurses

While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behaviors, bundled payments—single, all-inclusive payments for multiple services across an epis
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Nurses at the Forefront of Change

As the largest segment of the health care workforce, with more than 3 million professionals, nurses touch every facet of care � and their impact has been mighty.
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Is Your IT Staff Getting Fried

Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a 'tsunami of activities, expectations and challenges' and many CIOs are concerned about staff burnout.
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The IPAL Project

The IPAL Project, an initiative of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, is designed to provide a central venue for sharing expertise, evidence, tools and resources essential to the integration and i
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A Promising New Approach to Creating Change

Success in strategic organizational initiatives depends on changing the way people work together.
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This Costs How Much?

RWJF video details three perspectives on the need for cost information
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Health Spending by State of Residence, 1991–2009

This report provides a detailed discussion of baseline health spending by state of residence (per capita personal health care spending, per enrollee Medicare spending, and per enrollee Medicaid spe