AHA/HRET Guides
The American Hospital Association (AHA) shares guides created by its Health Research and Education Trust (HRET).
Given economic and industry trends related to the worldwide financial markets, the nation's economy, and U.S. health care reform, access to external capital has become more important than ever for hospitals nationwide.
This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve work processes and identify causes and targeted solutions for failure to clean hands.
After defining patient-centered medical homes, this report discusses particular opportunities and challenges that they bring the report puts them in context of health care reform. It highlights similarities and differences between PMCHs and accountable care organizations.
A key ingredient for success under health care reform will be the ability to utilize health information technology to manage the care of patients across the continuum of care and produce actionable data to help improve outcomes and reduce costs.
The federal health reform legislation includes several demonstration projects that will be held in the coming years to test new models for care delivery and payment.
This compendium of guides, reports, and toolkits provides a wealth of actionable resources to help you design and implement strategies as you take your hospital to the next level of performance and address the challenges and opportunities of implementing health care reform.
This guide communicates the idea that workforce and human resource practices can positively impact the quality of hospitals and health care institutions.
The report focuses on the overall concept of ACOs. And also provides special focus on the specifics of the ACO model put forward in the health reform legislation. It is one of several demonstration programs under the administration of the CMS.
Through support from The Commonwealth Fund, HRET studied best practices in QI strategies among multi-hospital health systems. The project collected data from a variety of sources--including public databases about system quality (Hospital Compare), claims data, and surveys of system leaders (AHA…