The Harvard School of Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Exercise Program offers a free Hospital Decontamination Self-Assessment Tool to help hospitals evaluate their decontamination ...

An overarching challenge in healthcare today is doing more with less — improving quality, building partnerships and managing population health while lowering costs. One of healthcare organizations’ ...

WASHINGTON — Virtual reality is being used at The George Washington University Hospital to give students, patients and surgeons a three-dimensional view of internal anatomy to practice, discuss and ...

Publicly available hospital ratings and rankings should be modified to allow quality measures to be prioritized according to the needs and preferences of individual patients, according to a new RAND ...

A new study calls for updating the tools used to assess hospital readmission risk for skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents. One of the measurements used to assess a SNF’s quality of care is how ...

The National Academy for State Health Policy has developed a publicly available tool meant to shed light on hospital prices and costs. The Hospital Cost Tool was developed with the help of Rice ...

More than 100 million Americans face medical debt despite non-emergency and planned visits making up 90% of medical care. But a new tool, and a big step forward on a revolutionary path for health care ...

Trilliant Health has a straightforward pitch for hospital strategy leaders: ditch the “best of” lists for hospital comparisons. These "top hospital" lists are often based on subjective measures. As a ...

Soon you'll see a new tool popping up in hospitals, making the operating room a lot safer for doctors.A Cincinnati icon found out firsthand the dangers of a very common thing surgeons use. Now Dr.

Nutrition screening should be initiated on hospital admission by non-dietitians. This research aimed to validate and assess the reliability of the Canadian Nutrition Screening Tool (CNST) in the ‘real ...