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Commonwealth Fund: U.S. Healthcare is Lagging Behind Other CountriesWhen it comes to paying for healthcare, the United States tops the list as having the highest spending per capita ($7,290) when compared with 10 other industrialized countries. The U.S. also lags behind those nations in access, quality, and use of health information technology, according to the Commonwealth Fund's 12th annual international health policy survey. [ Read More]
Dying In a Hospital Costs More than Surviving an Inpatient StayIf anyone needs more evidence that healthcare spending is concentrated at the end of life, here's another raft of confirming statistics from the federal government. The statistics were released by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which analyzed 765,651 hospital patient deaths in 2007. The statistical brief is the first analysis of the cost of death for payers other than Medicare. [ Read More]
New MRSA Strain Much More Lethal Than Other TypesAn uncommon type of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus called USA600 appears much more lethal when it infects the bloodstream than more common strains of MRSA. That's the finding from a preliminary study presented Saturday at the Infectious Disease Society of America's annual meeting in Philadelphia. [ Read More]
Nurses Use Repetitive Processes to Catch Medication ErrorsEach year, medication errors are responsible for 7,000 patient deaths and cost the healthcare system $2 billion. Even more shocking, perhaps, is the knowledge that nearly 50% of potential medication errors are caught before making it to the patient. Of those potential errors, 87% are intercepted by nurses. [ Read More]
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Care Team Architecture
| Creativity and flexibility count, sure. But underlying the successful care team design is a foundation of essential and lasting values. [Read More] |
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State of Emergency
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The nation's emergency departments are feeling the effects of the economic downturn, but innovations in patient throughput and other strategies offer hope for a beleaguered system. [Read More] |
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Leaders Forum
Utilizing Clinical Integration to Foster Successful Hospital Operations Improvement: Don't use impending healthcare reform and the uncertainties surrounding it as an excuse not to enact necessary clinical integration strategies that will improve operations regardless of how legislative healthcare reform eventually plays out. While considerable uncertainty still exists surrounding the details of healthcare reform, certain consequences of reform are so likely that hospitals need to address them. [Read More]
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Audio Feature
At our recent event, HealthLeaders Media '09: The Hospital of the Future Now, the former CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Charlie Baker sat down to talk about the growing importance for healthcare providers to develop multidisciplinary systems of care. Baker, who is now running as a Republican candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, also discussed how three aspects of the national health reform debate are similar to the Bay State's ongoing universal coverage efforts. [Listen Now]
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