Articles by Paul Barr

High movement by workers into and out of the long-term care field could signal problems down the road when home care and long-term care volume is expected to soar.

Physician and hospital benchmarks should be changed, providers argue.

Graduate medical education stakeholders address mismatches in expertise supply and demand and drive innovation in academia.

Providers are targeting risk of patient falls in the home and elsewhere outside the hospital.

Once a little-noticed part of a hospital's overhead, water costs are getting more attention in parts of the country.

Morristown Medical Center adds shop for apps and health technology.

The American Osteopathic Association and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine joined the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Center to Advance Palliative Care Switches to Membership Model; CMS Considers Payment for Advance Care Planning

Cleveland Clinic's CIO would like to keep the focus on where the true value of electronic health records will be derived: analytics.

A new AHA report offers some basic strategies for changing a hospital culture that is not fast-acting enough to survive amid all the change that's taking place.

A new consortium of health systems, insurers, purchasers and other organizations seeks to clarify what types of quality measures should be used as value-based models of care take hold.

Patients are acting more like consumers and the hospital field needs to prepare for that change, say speakers at an AHA event.

The American Hospital Association and ABIM Foundation are among those working to reduce unnecessary tests and procedures.

2015 promises to be another interesting year in health care if the predictions of PricewaterhouseCoopers and ECRI Institute prove to be accurate.

Johns Hopkins published A Blueprint for 21st Century Nursing Ethics: Report of the National Nursing Summit, with the goal of guiding an evolving health care system.

As many look to Washington, D.C., for guidance as to how health care reform will unfold, they might want to pay more attention to what's happening in their own backyards.

The two organizations share similarities and differences in quality improvement approaches.

The increased popularity of bundling health care reimbursement around episodes of care, such as knee replacements, has raised the question of whether bundling might suppress innovation.

North Shore-LIJ Health System and Yale-New Haven Health are working together on SkyHealth, a hospital-based helicopter emergency medical service.

Changing systems to fit human behavior is one way MedStar Health applies innovation to health care, says Mark Smith, M.D., director of the Medstar Institute for Innovation, in a video interview.