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Preparing for the July Effect: Five Strategies for Integrating New ResidentsDeaths from medication errors appear to increase in July, perhaps because of the addition of new and inexperienced residents in that month, according to a new study. Dubbed the "July effect," the phenomenon has been observed anecdotally, but David P. Phillips, PhD, of the University of California San Diego and Gwendolyn E.C. Barker, BA, of the University of California Los Angeles, looked at more than 62 million death certificates from 1979 to 2006 to find a pattern. [ Read More]
Healthcare Violence Is Increasing; Is Your Hospital Prepared?The season finale of ABC's Grey's Anatomy two weeks ago depicted a distraught husband firing his gun as he walked the halls of Seattle Grace, killing and critically wounding patients, providers, and even security personnel. The two hour Columbine-like massacre, while dramatic, served as another reminder that healthcare facilities, which increasingly are treating sicker and poorer patients, are also rife with all sorts of emotion, both obvious and hidden. [ Read More]
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IBM Study: Leveraging the Value of Portal Solutions: The IDC recently did a study comparing the total cost of ownership of in-house portal development with that of portals developed with IBM® WebSphere® Portal.
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Time to Put Patients First
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Plan, Align, Deploy and Execute: Bring Your Strategy to Life: Employees must understand what the corporate strategy is, why it is important, what their role is within it and how to make decisions in everyday activities that breathe life into the strategy. In other words: they need to know how to execute the strategy. But explaining a strategy is not easy. [Read More]
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Are long wait times in the ER hurting the patient experience at your organization? Denice Soyring Higman, RN, president and founder of Soyring Consulting in St. Petersburg, FL, discusses how hospitals can dramatically boost patient satisfaction scores with simple patient flow changes and by using clinical data to improve efficiency and productivity in the ER. [Listen Now]
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