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Independent hospitals tap into the benefits of scale by forming regional coalitions

Enabling patients to input their health information electronically can boost patient engagement.

Use these five strategies to keep hard-won rural physicians happy

Your agenda: newly insured patients, shrinking payments, and consolidation.

Scorecards that measure health system performance against established metrics have become an increasingly common and useful tool in the trustee's governance toolbox.

Being able to provide high-quality health care is a primary driver of job satisfaction among physicians, while obstacles to doing so are a source of stress for doctors.

Hospitals have deployed technologies that improve patient documentation, advance clinical decision support and evidence-based protocols, reduce the likelihood of medication errors and rapidly restore access to data in the case of a disaster or outage.

70% of hospitals electronically deliver quality scores to clinical leaders

Three technology concepts should shape plans for health care's future.