Contributor David Bowman, MD, executive director of IPC-Tucson, IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc., discusses what he has learned in 10 years at one of the first multi-physician hospitalist practices in the country. +

We've got it all wrong as to what constitutes "healthcare quality," says contributor Morley Robbins. Robbins says our mistake is in thinking that quality is a unicycle—a singularly focused discipline that measures and seeks to improve the caliber of our clinical and technical processes, thus assuring superior patient outcomes. This singular focus compromises the real depth of what determines "quality"?particularly as it relates to patients, their families, and caregivers, he says. +

If you're curious about what's next for healthcare marketing, you're probably keeping an eye on Florida Hospital's plans to open the Disney Children's Hospital in 2010. +

Offering dental benefits not only helps health plans maintain customers, it also allows them to take a more holistic approach to their members and gives them more predictability and a lower risk than medical. +

Will a new era be a time of historic change in healthcare? HealthLeaders Media asked U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, Alegent Health CEO Wayne Sensor and North Shore-LIJ Health System CEO Michael Dowling to share their hopes. +