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Perhaps the next time we go for employee engagement we should try for a more authentic, radical experience, say something similar to the reality-television show <em>Undercover Boss</em>.

Leading hospitals are moving beyond data collection to analyzing and using the data to develop targeted interventions for improving care for underserved populations.

Employers realize cost savings when workers choose 'top tier' providers

What hospitals should know about new federal payment and purchasing strategies

Efforts to reshape care taking root; no quick fixes

Riverside hospitals is among the first in the nation to attest to being meaningful users of health IT,&nbsp;making&nbsp;them eligible for millions of dollars in incentive funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

If there is total transformation of health and wellness, we'll see metrics around population health that will be monitored and evaluated.

Recently published health care research.

May 2011 Quoteables

Five health systems in April announced an initiative to securely exchange electronic health data with each other to improve patient care.