Most Wired Retooled for 2010
The 2010 H&HN Most Wired Survey is the result of two years of redesign work, culminating in a new structure, a new methodology and a deep commitment to analytics and reporting.
(7/2010)

Financial Management Imperatives
The one constant in health care is change. In the wake of health care reform, hospitals and health systems are faced with a new, albeit uncertain, future.
(6/2010)

The Future of Care
Part II: The Continuum of Care
In some ways, it will be like your great-grandfather's health care system. Back then, when Americans got sick, they stayed home. Hospitals were places to go only when intensive care or surgery was needed. (5/2010)

The Future of Care
Part I: The Patient Experience
What clinical innovations will change the face of health care by 2020? The first of a two-part series predicts dramatic advances for diabetes, heart disease and cancer. (4/2010)

Team-Based Care
Health care is a team sport, but often practitioners act as individual players. While they may interact with each other in the care of a patients, those collaborations typically occur in short bursts and can result in communication lapses.(3/2010)

Defining Meaningful Use
For most of 2009,vendors, hospital leaders, consultants and other industry experts professed to know what it will take to achieve meaningful use of electronic health records.(2/2010)

Rural IT + Quality
Rural hospitals are out to prove that size doesn't matter. More to the point, they are on a mission to show that rural hospitals can be top performers when it comes to quality of care.(1/2010)

Your ICD-10 Planning Starts Now!
The long-awaited transition to ICD-10-CM (diagnosis codes) and ICD-10-PCS (procedure codes) is slated for October 2013.(12/2009)

IT Challenges in Physician Management
The electronic medical record will play a central role as health care is reshaped to meet reform and market demands.(11/2009)

Leaders and Values in Uncertain Times
As the recession grinds on, hospitals and health networks across the country face some difficult decisions. Staff reductions and the termination of unprofitable services are just two options on the table.(10/2009)

2010 AHA Environmental Scan
The 2010 American Hospital Association Environmental Scan provides insight and information about market forces that have a high probability of affecting the health care field.(9/2009)

Physician Snapshot
Physicians today are confronted with a new reality. Reimbursements are declining while administrative costs are escalating. The adoption of clinical information systems is transforming care delivery and the potential for health care reform brings uncertainty going forward.(8/2009)

Being Most Wired in a Down Economy
These are strange times for clinical information technology. Even this year's 100 Most Wired Hospitals and Health Systems are torn between building on their IT successes and keeping a sharp eye on budgets. (7/2009)

Lessons from the Credit Crisis
Tough times call for tough decisions. That's certainly true for a hospital field faced with unprecedented challenges from the credit crunch to the economic recession. Layoffs. Pay cuts. Service cuts. Deferred equipment purchases. (6/2009)

Pediatric Safety
It's crucial for hospitals to recognize how caring for pediatric patients raises different quality and patient safety issues, and to develop a targeted approach to protecting this vulnerable patient population. (5/2009)