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Editor's Picks
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Hospital Leaders: How to Add Value to HealthcareThe current relationship between hospitals and physicians has been built around rewarding for volume of services and not quality. That model is breaking down as reformers in Washington have hospital and physician inefficiency in their sights, with Medicare pushing toward value based purchasing and experimenting with a payment system that rewards a system of coordinated care. In this HealthLeaders Media Breakthroughs report that you can download for free, four leading hospital systems—Gundersen Lutheran Health System, Sanford Health MeritCare, SSM Health Care, and Virginia Mason Medical Center—share the lessons they have learned about adding quality to healthcare. [ Read More]
Patient Photos Help Reduce Hospital's Medication ErrorsWhen a new patient enters a hospital, staff members generally follow the same routine. The admitting nurse asks the patient's name, date of birth, symptoms, and any allergies to medications. From this information, a medical record is created and the patient may be admitted and is taken to a room. However, at JPS Health Network in Fort Worth, TX, there is one extra step for admitting nurses in the Department of Psychiatry: photographing new patients. [ Read More]
Report Questions Whether Nation is Prepared for H1N1 EmergencyThe H1N1 flu outbreak has exposed serious gaps in the nation's ability to respond to public health emergencies and the economic crisis is straining an already fragile public health system, according to a report released by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. [ Read More]
Happy Holidays!
From all of us at HealthLeaders Media, happy holidays. QualityLeaders will not publish next week, but will be back with a new issue December 31.
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20 People Who Make Healthcare Better
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Emerging Service Lines
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Hospitals that lead the way in emerging service lines may find themselves positioned to be market leaders in the future. Here's a look at which services are emerging and why. [Read More] |
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Leaders Forum
Evaluating and Addressing the Need for an Effective EMPI: HealthLeaders Media contributors Lots Pook and Barbara Manor share the blueprint Exempla Healthcare used to evaluate master patient index solutions, including the system specifications and ROI metrics it evaluated to justify the cost of an enterprise solution. [Read More]
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