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28 States Report Obesity IncreaseAdult obesity rates increased in 28 states in the past year, while declining only in Washington, DC, according to "F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2010," a new report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Overall, more than two thirds of states (38) had adult obesity rates above 25%. [ Read More]
CMS To Combine Quality Reporting ProgramsPhysicians who report quality measures to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative using electronic health records will soon be able to combine data with physicians who demonstrate "meaningful use" of those records under the HITECH Act. Under the new healthcare reform law, the deadline for combining the two programs is Jan. 1, 2012. [ Read More]
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Mayo Clinic radiology process transformation: Mayo Clinic transforms the way it processes and interprets medical imaging results to enable more accurate detection.
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Best practices in complex patient care decisioning: From clinical alert notification and clinical trial management to staff scheduling and claim processing, providers are transforming core processes through intelligent decisioning.
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Smarter healthcare virtual scenario: Access the smarter healthcare virtual scenario to see first-hand how process improvement can lead to new, enhanced levels of healthcare delivery.
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Providing better healthcare through smarter collaboration: Read this brief to see how smarter collaboration can streamline processes, improve communication and deliver outstanding customer service.
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Drive better business outcomes through Web portals: Your Web presence may be the only way customers and partners get work done. You need to make those interactions count.
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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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Taking On the Cost Drivers
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Creating Stroke Systems of Care
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If U.S. healthcare is headed toward a model that eliminates fragmentation and emphasizes continuity and cooperation, stroke care may be leading the way and making a difference in patients' lives. [Read More] |
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Leaders Forum
Bring Your Strategy to Life: Implementation and Feedback Stages: In a robust healthcare system, strategy is executed from the ranks. 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. In part 2 of her two-part guest column, Gabrielle DeTora explains the structures needed to translate effective strategic imperatives to the rank-and-file. [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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