Nexus Newsletter
Current issues
- Achieving proven and sustainable healthcare savings that enhance patient care (11/3/11)
- Sweeping changes to Medicare shared savings proposal promises a brighter future for accountable care (10/27/11)
- Improving quality and achieving efficiencies and through medical device identification (10/11/11)
- Drug shortages leading to price gouging, threats to patient safety (9/8/11)
- Finding solutions to enhance patient safety (7/27/11)
- Now is not the time for additional cuts to hospital care!
- Bridging the divide in healthcare (6/21/11)
- Think broadly when applying ACO principles (6/8/11)
- Nation’s first statewide health plan-hospital partnership to measure patient care (5/12/11)
- Drug shortages pose patient safety risk and cost $200 million annually (3/30/11)
- Medicare value-based purchasing headed in the right direction (3/22/11)
- Converging fiscal pressures will squeeze community hospital care (3/15/11)
- Observational, real-world comparative effectiveness study (2/17/11)
- A well-tested reform: Hospital value-based purchasing (12/17/10)
- Sprint to higher quality care for heart failure patients (10/12/10)
- EHR inequity must be fixed (9/16/10)
- Unlocking the potential of healthcare reform (8/4/10)
- Hospital payment adjustment fails to recognize patient care trends (7/27/10)
- HIT incentives in closer reach, but not for many multi-campus hospitals (7/21/10)
- Improving patient care by innovating quality assistance (6/30/10)
- Leading healthcare transformation: Where the rubber meets the road (6/8/10)
- Driving toward a patient-centered healthcare system (5/25/10)
- Full transparency is critical for Medicare hospital quality measurement (5/6/10)
- HIT incentives: Do all healthcare providers have a fair shot? (2/25/10)
- Regrouping on healthcare reform (1/26/10)
- Changes needed to Senate reform bill (12/14/09)
- Hospitals’ progress in improving the health of communities is a beacon of light (11/18/09)
- Nationwide hospital collaborative serves as test bed for critical healthcare reforms (10/22/09)
- What we know works: Hospital value-based purchasing (10/7/09)
- Obama moving the healthcare reform agenda forward (9/9/09)
- For safety net hospitals, value-based purchasing creates rising tide that lifts all boats (8/06/09)
- Bending the cost curve and improving quality through unique device identification (7/22/09)
- Reforming healthcare: Let’s seize this opportunity to do it right (6/25/09)
- Achieving the win-win that everyone is talking about in healthcare reform (6/4/09)
- Nonprofit hospitals aren’t waiting to achieve healthcare savings (5/21/09)
- Healthcare sector should be leader in transparency and maintaining trust (5/12/09)
- Nonprofit hospitals step up efforts to protect public health and safety in midst of swine flu outbreak (5/1/09)
- Measures of evidence-based processes are useful in improving healthcare quality (4/23/09)
- Hospitals fuel rapid improvement in patient care despite financial pressures (3/29/09)
- Reforming healthcare payment to address perverse incentives is crucial to improving quality and efficiency (3/12/09)
- South Carolina hospitals aim to serve as national model for eliminating preventable infections, safely reducing cost of care (2/24/09)
- Premier calls on President Obama to act on policies that will improve the health of communities (2/3/09)
- Federal investment in our nation’s hospitals is needed to protect patient care and stimulate the economy (09/08/08)
- Updated clinical coding system will enable improvements in patient safety and care (11/18/08)
- Better understanding of healthcare-acquired infections and improved federal coordination will strengthen hospitals? efforts to prevent HAIs (9/25/08)
- Senate Finance Committee hears that pay for performance works for small and rural hospitals (9/18/08)
- Hospitals are leading initiatives to reduce carbon footprint and energy costs (7/16/08)
- Patient lives saved as hospital performance continues to improve in CMS, Premier healthcare alliance pay-for-performance project (6/25/08)
- Full transparency is critical for Medicare hospital quality measurement (6/12/08)
- Hospitals collaborate to eliminate preventable birth injuries (5/14/08)
- House votes overwhelmingly to block Medicaid cuts to hospitals; Senate to fast-track similar legislation in coming weeks (5/1/08)
- New supplier program seeks to promote evidence-based innovations (4/17/08)
- Experts look to comparative effectiveness research to advance healthcare quality and safety (4/1/08)
- U.S. pay-for-performance initiative inspires similar quality-improvement efforts abroad (2/27/08)
- Hospital quality improving, cost, mortality rate trends declining for participants in Medicare pay-for-performance project (2/6/08)
- President's healthcare agenda should advance hospitals? efforts to improve the health of communities (1/28/08)
- Healthcare leaders serve as advisors for comprehensive program to improve hospital quality, reduce costs (1/15/08)
- Medicare value-based purchasing provides opportunity to improve patient care (12.5.07)
- Hospitals achieve breakthroughs in clinical supply savings to help counter rising healthcare costs (11/15/07)
- Four of the scariest things in healthcare: Hospitals successfully confront these chilling challenges (10/31/07)
- Hospitals have stepped up efforts to protect healthcare workers from needlestick injuries (10/23/07)
- SCHIP agreement is vital to the health of our nation’s children (10/16/07)
- Congress passes unique device identification language to advance patient safety (10/2/07)
- Best practices healthcare Web site is focused on improving lives in communities nationwide (9/20/07)
- New comprehensive project seeks to improve hospital quality, reduce costs (7/27/07)
- House votes overwhelmingly to block unwarranted Medicare cut to hospitals (7/25/07)
- House acts to improve patient safety through unique identification of medical devices (7/11/07)
- Better information on comparative effectiveness of healthcare will lead to improved care (7/10/07)
- Increased transparency of healthcare quality and cost improves care and empowers patients (6/27/07)
- Studies provide valuable insight into hospital pay for performance (6/14/07
- Hospitals are making “greener” choices for the safety and health of patients, workers and the environment (6/12/07)
- Hospitals focus on eliminating infections and associated costs - 5/23/2007
- Health professionals say mandatory unique device identification system would improve patient safety - 5/8/2007
- Perinatal project reduces birth risk, improves safety and outcomes in obstetric care - 5/2/2007
- Hospitals fuel rapid improvement in patient care through nationwide benchmarking and best practice sharing - 4/23/2007
- Hospitals’ emphasis on quality improvement is reflected in the Baldrige process - 3/27/2007
- Premature infants face dire consequences from makeshift feeding devices: Hospitals and suppliers collaborate to develop safe alternative - 3/14/2007
- Groundbreaking Medicare, Premier pay-for-performance project extended - 3/6/2007
- Hospitals' improvements in care for heart patients merits recognition during "American Heart Month" -2/13/2007
- Patient lives saved as performance continues to improve in groundbreaking CMS/Premier pay-for-performance project - 1/31/2007
- IHI Names Premier Inc. partner in 5 Million Lives campaign to reduce medical harm throughout the nation - 1/23/2007
- Premier’s hope for State of the Union address: Priorities that help hospitals improve the health of their communities - 1/16/2007
- Using nationwide knowledge to improve local healthcare - 1/3/2007
- National Baldrige Award recognizes commitment to quality improvement - 11/28/2006
- Unique identification of medical devices is paramount to improving patient safety and reducing medical errors - 11/14/2006