The Center for Healthcare Improvement is the knowledge creation center for Thomson Healthcare, 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