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By prioritizing clinical and community preventive services and using recommendations and tools in the field for this purpose, hospital boards can improve the delivery of care.

Trading unwieldy board packets for customized iPads improves efficiency and communication

Like other essential health care assets, information requires board oversight and protection

Providers are ramping up IT to qualify for incentives

The IT workforce shortage could bring meaningful-use efforts to a halt

Health care organization trusteeship is getting more complicated as pressures to improve quality and safety, reduce costs, increase transparency and accountability, and use changing and evermore-expensive technology converge.

AHA's chair-elect shares her thoughts on reform, physician relations and technology

Failure to implement ICD-10 will disrupt revenue cycles, create coding and billing backlogs, cause cash flow delays, increase claims rejections and denials, cause unintended shifts in payment and more.

Many will say we've had lots of change initiatives in health care over the last three decades and none fundamentally altered how we operate. True enough. What makes change different this time around?

Hospitals need to prepared for the new reality of health care reform.