Cancer centers today are facing growing pressure from stakeholders across the cancer care and research community to meet data ...

Healthcare leaders can learn four important lessons from a recent study indicating universal colonization as superior to other strategies for reducing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among ...

The Operationalization Gap. It’s the chasm between innovation and everyday practice that is a challenge for all large organizations. Hospital executives will likely not be surprised to learn that the ...

This article presents a case study of how stakeholders in one state came together to integrate practice and research that is a step beyond a learning health care system. Objectives: The cost and ...

Healthcare systems that can capture and apply their experience and evidence from research to continuously improve have seven traits in common, according to a report by the Institute of Medicine ...

An ad hoc committee will consider the urgent and longer-term actions necessary to foster the development of a continuously learning healthcare system. Building on recent related work of the Institute ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

The world is undergoing rapid transformation. Artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing and robotics are reshaping industries while evolving consumer expectations and a rapidly shifting global ...

Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) can focus our attention and propel needed action to improve total population health, the authors argue. Neither care delivery nor public health systems have grappled ...