context, managed care plan market, and hospital market—appear to explain why hospitals' leverage increased, particularly …Findings suggest that many hospitals' negotiating leverage significantly increased after years of decline. Today, many … hospitals are viewed as having the greatest leverage in local markets. Changes in three areas—the policy and purchasing …

with elderly patients newly admitted to postacute care. The structured delirium assessment process produced very high … for the assessment of delirium among postacute patients in skilled nursing facilities. …

€œmeaningful use.†Through an analysis of Medicare data, the study found a substantial increase in the percentage of hospitals …-access, smaller, and publicly owned or nonprofit hospitals appeared to be at risk of failing to meet the criteria. …

This article found that more than 15 percent of U.S. hospitals have adopted at least a basic electronic health record …, hospitals will have to accelerate adoption of EHRs above the current pace to participate in meaningful use. …

about quality to help them make better choices. Hospital Compare, a central component of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid … Services Hospital Quality Initiative, is an unprecedented national effort to provide meaningful, relevant, and easily … understood public information about hospital quality. This publication, based on our survey of hospital chief executive officers …

Hospitals have greater administrative control over the actions and resources of physicians they employ, enabling the … implementation of new technology and initiatives. This study tested for and found that hospital employment of physicians is … associated with significant increases in the probability of physicians using hospital health information technology. …

A study examining the relationship between hospital characteristics and hospital prices can help inform the debate on … controlling health care costs. Compared to other hospitals, high-price hospitals tend to be larger, be major teaching hospitals … sources. However, quality indicators for high-price hospitals were mixed. Although these hospitals fared better than other …

hospitals receiving electronic health record incentive payments between 2011 (17.4 percent) and 2012 (36.8 percent). However …, critical-access, smaller, and publicly owned or nonprofit hospitals appeared to be at risk of failing to meet the criteria. …