An HHS official said the agency's pilot programs for new healthcare delivery and payment models will take up to one year to produce results, according to a Reuters report.

Oak Brook, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care has announced it has trained 1,000 adults as part of its Stewards of Children program, an outreach initiative of the system's Childhood Trauma Treatment Program.

Anesthesiology may put some people to sleep, but the specialty is about to get a wakeup call.

Twenty-seven percent of healthcare professionals reported that they had made an error at work due to fatigue, according to a survey commissioned by Kronos Inc. and conducted by HealthLeaders Media.

Clinical integration — standardizing clinical practices and processes across providers — can help hospitals and health systems improve quality of care while lowering costs. Rick Lopez, MD, CMO of Newton, Mass.-based Atrius Health, believes clinical integration is a critical strategy…

A free toolkit to guide hospitals' implementation of Re-Engineered Discharge, a readmission reduction initiative, is available from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Many neonatal intensive care units are understaffed, which is associated with higher infection rates among infants with very low birth weights, according to a study in JAMA Pediatrics.

Premier healthcare alliance announced that hospitals participating in the QUEST initiative, which involves benchmarking data and sharing best practices, have a mortality rate 10 percent lower than the national average.

Beginning this year, CMS is paying hospitals a bonus or extracting a penalty depending on the quality of care they deliver. Hospitals administrators know that the difference between getting more and getting less from CMS will depend on how well…

Patients who are discharged from the emergency department with "primary care treatable" diagnoses may actually need emergency care, according to an American College of Emergency Physicians report on a study to be published in the Journal of the American Medical…