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Peer pressure, keen monitoring and clear expectations compel physicians and others to follow hospital protocols

Recession and reform are changing health care. Can your organization adapt?

Bumps on the Road to Reform

A commitment to a just culture drives an organization's transformation into a patient-centric, learning organization that focuses on process improvement to prevent recurrence of the same or similar events.

More risk managers than physicians strongly agreed that serious errors should be disclosed to patients.

Reform efforts that aim to provide access to care to more people will only make the looming shortage of primary care physicians more acute.

Trustee Kimberly McNally knows what makes health care organizations tick from top to bottom.

From accountable care organizations to clinical integration, forging a close bond between physicians and hospitals for improved quality results is now an imperative.

How to reduce the risk of a regulatory failure

A survey of hospitals has shown that one in five had a 10 percent or greater increase in bad debt write-offs compared with the prior fiscal year.