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June 30, 2009
Why do adverse events and process-of-care errors happen and how can they be prevented? Answering those questions is essential to making real progress in improving patient safety.
Read how a sophisticated event reporting system is helping hospitals reduce adverse events and adopt process improvements that are leading to measurable gains in patient safety.
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GE Healthcare
www.gehealthcare.com/solutions
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June 24, 2009
It's no secret, e-commerce can reduce labor costs and improve productivity, but what about the bottom line? How can hospitals measure the hard dollar savings enabled by their supply chain automation initiatives? "The Financial Value of e-Commerce" is the first in a series of white papers produced by GHX for hospital financial executives. This first paper looks specifically at how e-commerce can optimize business processes through visibility to real-time data to generate hard dollar savings. Subsequent papers in the series will cover topics ranging from contract compliance and optimization; AP automation; and the purchase and utilization of physician preference items.
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GHX
www.ghx.com
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June 22, 2009
Technology such as Kronos for Healthcare solution suite can guide institutions on their laudable journey to excellence in nursing care. This whitepaper illustrates how the Kronos for Healthcare solution can assist organizations in their quest to become Magnet hospitals by providing the insightful labor productivity information that leads to superior work environments.
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Kronos
www.kronos.com/magnet
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June 9, 2009
As hospitals struggle with the burdens of volume variability, declining reimbursements and economy induced payor mix erosions it has become increasingly important that they discover new ways to reduce expenses without undermining access to labor.
Read how one hospital has reduced labor spending by the equivalent of 50 FTE's per year without reducing hours, pay rates or staff.
To discover how much labor waste your organization has, go to: http://www.workforcerx.org/recaptureCalculator.php
To check your hospital's Pay IQ go to: http://www.workforcerx.org/payIQ.php
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Workforce Rx
www.workforcerx.org
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May 18, 2009
What if today's hospitals were managed as a collection of profit centers, instead of cost centers?
Healthcare thought leader, Rick Jackson, believes costs and revenues are misleading metrics in measuring the success of a service line. This white paper challenges executives to transform their hospital?s financial model in order to remain healthy staples of their communities.
Reader feedback is invited through a survey link.
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Jackson Healthcare
www.jacksonhealthcare.com
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April 14, 2009
How can a hospital get potential bad debts shifted into paid categories?
One way is to get patients qualified for reimbursement through various government programs. Hospital staffers may lack the expertise skills needed to track applications through a long, perilous path to approval. And they have too many other duties.
That's why University of Louisville Hospital brought in Chamberlin Edmonds. $90 million later, it looks like the hospital made a good decision.
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Chamberlin Edmonds
www.chamberlinedmonds.com
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March 30, 2009
At any safety-net hospital, a staff of people determine which cases are eligible for reimbursement through government-subsidized programs. Many hospitals do the job internally, but others get better results using outside eligibility specialists.
Denver Health turned to Atlanta-based Chamberlin Edmonds. "Their people came in with the expertise to do the job. They dealt with issues swiftly. And the cash is coming in," said Peg Burnette, CFO.
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Chamberlin Edmonds
www.chamberlinedmonds.com
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March 23, 2009
With today's economic constraints, hospitals are revisiting their budgets line-by-line, including scrutinizing patient satisfaction survey costs. One of the most common patient survey money-waster is over or under-sampling — not conducting enough surveys for data to be useful or conducting more surveys than necessary. Either way, money is essentially thrown away. With a little knowledge and mathematical formulas, you can ensure that your patient satisfaction survey is giving you quality data with an acceptable error rate that fits your tight budget.
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Professional Research Consultants, Inc. (PRC)
www.PRConline.com
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March 6, 2009
Patient-centered care is not just about keeping the patient actively involved in the treatment process. It is also about patient choice, and it begins the moment the patient contemplates where to receive care. Learn how survey methodologies, scales and measure impact loyalty and why the most effective way to increase loyalty is to have every patient feel that the quality of care they received was Excellent. Not very good, but Excellent.
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Professional Research Consultants, Inc. (PRC)
www.PRConline.com
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February 11, 2009
This paper is written to assist hospital executives who are interested in developing an outreach program for community-based physicians and helping physicians finance the transition from paper-based records to electronic health records and patient portals to improve patient and operational outcomes.
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Med3000
www.Med3000.com
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