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Editor's Picks
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HIT Lessons from Across the Pond
In her latest HealthLeaders Media IT column, my colleague Carrie Vaughan discusses a recent report that pulls 25 lessons learned from electronic health record initiatives in Denmark, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Although there are key differences between these countries' efforts and the United States, the initiatives are comparable and have encountered many of the same obstacles and issues. She outlines some of the best EHR implementation practices taken from report—as well as the pitfalls to avoid. [Read More]
The doctor is in . . . Bangkok
In this rather lengthy opinion piece published on Boston.com, Dean Baker, the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, makes the case for globalizing American healthcare. Baker says there are clear ways to take advantage of lower costs in other countries, making the U.S. system more affordable without diminishing the quality. "The economic idea driving globalization is simple: that the United States—and the world—gain when goods and services are produced in the country that can provide the best quality at the lowest price," he says. [Read More]
Patient Deportation Case Highlights Issues with Illegal Alien Healthcare
Arthur Caplan, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, says Martin Memorial Medical Center was unfairly criticized after the Stuart, FL, hospital chartered an airplane and returned Luis Jimenez, 37, to his native Guatemala in 2003. The hospital had been providing unreimbursed long-term care for the uninsured Jimenez since 2000, when an automobile accident left him partially paralyzed. The hospital placed the value of the uncompensated care at around $1.5 million. "Those who are outraged over sending him home should try to push for illegal aliens to be covered. Good luck with that," Caplan told my colleague John Commins in an interview for this article. A civil jury last week sided with the hospital and rejected claims made by Jimenez's relatives that he was illegally repatriated. [Read More]
Fight is on as junior doctors' hours cut in the UK
The British Medical Association says the assembly government and the National Health Service trusts have failed to prepare properly for cuts in junior doctors' working hours. Under the rules, junior doctors working hours were cut from 56 to 48 hours a week to comply with the European working time directive. As a result of the hour cuts, some hospital representatives say it has left them facing a doctor shortage that leaves them clinically unsafe. But in response, the assembly government called the criticism "scaremongering," according to BBC News. [Read More]
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Global Health Headlines
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Doctors in Cuba start over in the U.S.
New York Times - August 4, 2009
Mandela launches children's hospital in Africa
AP/Yahoo News - August 3, 2009
A Canadian doctor diagnoses U.S. healthcare
Los Angeles Times - August 3, 2009
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Time For 'Dr. Next'?
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Generation X and its life-balancing, tech-oriented, team-playing doctors is taking over. But what kind of care will they give us? [Read More] |
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Service Line Management |
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Prepare for the Cancer Boom
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Aligning the right cancer care team and utilizing the appropriate technology is essential for maintaining a patient-centered service line. [Read More] |
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Audio Feature
CIO Strategies: Implementing IT in a Depressed Economy: Patty Lavely, senior vice president and CIO of Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah, GA, says CIOs should focus on educating senior executives about what it really takes to support advanced HIT systems, such as staffing levels, infrastructure requirements, and system reliability standards. [Listen Now]
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Leadership
