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Even with the nation's health care delivery system, our religious sponsors, board members, leaders, associates and physicians have expressed a strong sense of urgency about the bold, transformative steps we will take together over the next decade.

May 2011 Datadig

In 2008, Fairview Health Services embarked on a major transformation of our care delivery and core business model to create value by improving care, improving the patient experience and reducing total cost of care.

At the Health Forum and the American Hospital Association Leadership Summit July 17-19 in San Diego, some of the nation's brightest thinkers on leadership and health care will come together to discuss delivery-system transformation.

59 percent of Americans had work-based health insurance in 2009, the lowest number in at least 10 years.

Hospitals can use patients' preferences for a pleasant experience to create optimal healing environments and improve quality.

The next generation of health IT will employ avatars and 3D cameras. But it's also poised to engage patients more meaningfully in their care.

What Tweets and Facebook status updates mean for patient privacy.

Intermountain Healthcare leaders discuss clinical integration, bending the national cost curve and building IT systems that work for clinicians.

Former Kaiser CEO David Lawrence foresees the end of primary care as we've known it.