Lindsey Dunn

Despite the growing use of health apps, health care providers have yet to fully realize the power of mobile devices for patient engagement, say speakers at HIMSS 2016.

Hospital leaders have to start thinking about how services fit in a patient's life, not the provider's.

NorthShore University HealthSystem is pioneering an initiative to track occurrences of such things as the flu in the broader community. The goal is to arm clinicians with real-time data to make more informed treatment decisions.

A hospital's labor ratio — total labor costs divided by total revenue — should be a central benchmark for any executive aiming to improve performance and the bottom line.

Several hundred hospitals have signed onto a patient safety initiative that aims to eliminate preventable patient harm.