The Innovator's Prescription (published by McGraw-Hill) argues that disruptive innovation is required to make health care affordable. In this excerpt, the authors look into the ways disruption can ...

Pioneered by Johns Hopkins in 1995, the innovative hospital-at-home model provides hospital-level care in a patient’s home as an appropriate and, in some cases, better substitute for acute hospital ...

Dozens of small community hospitals with low inpatient volumes will likely be good candidates to convert to the rural emergency hospital model. But before they convert, hospitals want more clarity and ...

As the healthcare industry adopts the philosophy of accountable care, large hospitals and academic medical centers may seem to have the upper hand compared with community hospitals, because larger ...

“Micro-hospitals,” which offer full hospital services with the convenience and accessibility of urgent care clinics, are generating considerable buzz in a healthcare market that rewards these ...

The home-based care model offers a promising strategy for improving quality of care, while also reducing health care spending. “In this study, we show that enrolling HNHC patients with cardiovascular ...

The latest federal appropriations bill includes language that could enable some struggling rural Kansas hospitals to develop a new service delivery model that Kansas health experts say might save them ...

Wide Bay Hospital and Health Service (WBHHS) and their Integrated Care Access Team (iCAT) created the model using a holistic approach, to prevent repeat emergency admissions, manage community wellness ...

In California, a struggle over a hospital system acquisition has cast light on a practice that could have important implications for the industry. State officials there are trying to decide whether to ...

Anson General Hospital needed to transfer a pediatric patient to a specialist at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, but the only ambulance in Anson wasn’t available. If it had made ...