You can’t manage what you don’t measure: that seems to be the mantra of every hospital executive, as electronic data systems increasingly help hospitals track data on quality measures, patient ...

The term “healthcare” encompasses a wide variety of issues ranging from insurance coverage controversies and workforce compensation trends to prescription drug administration and health information ...

For more than a decade, hospitals have worked to help older adults avoid repeated inpatient stays, incentivized by a federal ...

Two thousand years ago, physicians in Egypt documented their patients’ symptoms and treatments on papyrus scrolls. These early medical records served a simple, localized purpose: they supported direct ...