The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded the first "RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize" to six communities that have worked to improve their communities' health.

Team training can improve hospitals' safety culture if teams adopt new behavior, according to a study in BMJ Quality & Safety.

Learning collaboratives may not be the most effective approach to improving public health emergency preparedness, according to a study in Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced it has granted $1.9 million to PatientsLikeMe to create an open-participation research platform to develop patient-centered health outcome measures.

The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare and the South Carolina Hospital Association announced a new initiative, the South Carolina Safe Care Commitment, to advance high reliability in healthcare.

At the National Governors Association Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C., HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and others from her department met with individual governors who had not yet agreed to expand Medicaid in their states in an effort to woo them…

The acquisition of independent physician groups and subsequent employment of physicians by hospitals and health systems continues to occur at a frequent place. Here, Tom Mallon, CEO and founder of Regent Surgical Health, shares his thoughts on two key related…

Indiana is set to have 88 percent more medical students next fall, due to Indianapolis-based Indiana University School of Medicine's expanded enrollment and the inaugural class at Marian University's College of Osteopathic Medicine in Indianapolis, according to an Indianapolis Business…

Just 60 percent of physicians are willing to participate in an accountable care arrangement, leaving 40 percent still unwilling to participate, according to a recent survey conducted by LocumTenens.com, a physician staffing firm.

"It'll never work."  Anyone that has been inspired by a great idea, only to have it marginalized or rejected by peers will understand the frustration of trying to move their organization forward in an environment of diverse stakeholders and strategies.…