Quality and Safety

Miriam Paramore interviewed Young as part of a series on Women in Health IT that she has titled “Women Who Get IT." In this inaugural interview, Paramore talks with Young not only about the work itself but also about work-life balance.

Participants include volunteers at three sites within the United States, including the NIH Clinical Center in Maryland.

Premier Inc. is joining forces with America's Essential Hospitals, which champions care for vulnerable populations, in a bid to improve quality, cost and population health at essential hospitals.

CMS innovation model aimed at as many as 5,000 primary care practices of all sizes, including small, independent and rural facilities.

HIMSS VP: Disparity between male and female compensation rates has widened in the past decade.

The hospital created a web-based tool that ties into its EHR that is being used to mitigate medical errors when residents hand off patients at their end of their shifts. 

Only 102 hospitals of 3,617 hospitals received the top rating of five stars.

Despite what appear to be common industry fears about new electronic health records having adverse effects on care delivery, Harvard’s School of Public Health officials said recent research should be encouraging to doctors.

The hospitals aim to reduce HIV infections by increasing the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis in a region with one of the highest HIV Rates in the nation.

Mortality rates have not improved, and obesity is on the rise, but there Is some good news.