ABOUT THE CENTER FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT (chi)

The Center for Healthcare Improvement is the knowledge creation center for the Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters, focusing on insights to guide the healthcare industry toward improved performance.

Projects include:

"By the Numbers" Healthcare Industry Trends

  • New national trends in hospital business and clinical performance that affect providers, pharmaceutical companies, insurers and government
  • In-depth analysis of high impact trends that will change healthcare as we know it

100 Top Hospitals® Performance Programs

  • National hospital scorecard and benchmarking research
  • Academic/industry research partnerships studying leadership, organizational change, best practices and performance improvement

Research for the Future

  • Innovative mining of treatment, outcome, safety, financial, operational, market share and patient perception data streams across care settings to create new knowledge for providers, including better understanding of patient impact
  • Pioneering integration of disparate data streams to develop unique measures and benchmarks that will support performance improvement cultures in hospitals
  • Developing new methods to increase utility, reliability and predictability of information for improving healthcare performance across settings


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