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How Hospitals Are Approaching Content Marketing

Content - Nearly two-thirds (73%) of hospitals in the United States are already engaging in content marketing, and an additional 19% plan to start this year, according to recent research from True ...

Hospital Errors and How to Protect Yourself

Americans are dying in hospitals from preventable medical mistakes. But, patients can minimize their risks by keeping a close eye on their care.

What Yelp can tell you about a hospital that official ratings can’t

If you've ever taken the time to give Yelp your two cents about a hospital, you'll be happy to know someone's listening and that they've deemed the information not only useful -- but unique.

Patients much likelier to choose hospital that employs their doctor

When patients have to go to the hospital, they're likely to choose a facility that employs their doctor, a new study suggests. The study, which finds that patients of independent doctors often choose low-cost and high-quality hospitals, hints that not all organizations are successfully integrating care.

7 tips for improving patient safety in hospitals

An AHRQ report shows hospital efforts to improve patient safety have resulted in about $19.8 billion in cost savings.

Hospitals provide much more than health care

Gundersen Health System and Mayo Clinic Health System provide quality medical care to patients.

How hospitals are improving heart attack care, survival

In order to continue improving survival and prevention of heart damage, potential heart attack victims need to take action more quickly, heart experts said.

How Hospitals Can Partner with, Engage Patients and Families to Improve Care

Use this comprehensive list of resources to develop and implement your patient engagement strategies.

How to Build a Successful Acute/Post-Acute Care Continuum

Hospitals are forming networks with post-acute care and continuing care partners to ensure quality across the continuum.

When a Hospital Stay Is Not a Stay

Some hospital stays are not admissions but are done to put the patient under observation, which affects Medicare reimbursement and coverage.

How Technology Can Close the Door on Hospital Readmissions

We’re guessing that you've been to a hospital at one time or another — whether to visit a loved on or get treated themselves. And we’re also guessing that you have no desire to go back to a hospital again.<br>Sadly, hospital readmissions are all too common, so common that hospitals are being penalized

How 3 hospitals use Periscope for patient engagement

Several hospitals are blazing trails with Twitter’s live-streaming platform. Let’s look at how three providers are delivering health and wellness to patients via real-time video.

How hospitals discourage doctors: A step by step guide

As I watched him go, one thing became clear: Having read that document, I suddenly felt a lot less discouraged.

Can good hospital design improve your health?

Hospitals, care centers and research facilities that make up the industry -- in the States and abroad -- have never looked better.

Do You Know What Your Hospital is Charging You?

Some hospitals are marking up treatments by as much as 1,000 percent, a new study finds.

Do You Know Who Used Your Hospital Bed Before You?

Many patients leave the hospital unsure what to do next

A new study indicates many patients leave the hospital without a clear understanding of what to do next. But there are some key things providers and patients can do to help address the problem.

Finding the Right Hospital

What's good for patient satisfaction may not be good for medicine. Awash in marketing, the key questions to consider when choosing a hospital

Going into Hospital? How to Come Out Again Unscathed

In the past couple of weeks I have noticed several different articles on how to survive a stay in hospital for whatever reason. They all had good suggestions and advice, and so I thought I would try and put them together into a bullet point format so that you have an easy-to-access reference should you or close friend or family member have to go to hospital either for an unavoidable emergency or for a necessary procedure.

How does your hospital rate on Yelp?

The online consumer review company Yelp is entering the high-stakes world of gauging patient satisfaction. It will offer quality statistics for hospitals, nursing homes and dialysis clinics during a time when metrics are being scrutinized for their usefulness and accuracy.