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Editor's Picks
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HCA Announces Management Shakeup, Subsidiary
The nation's largest for-profit hospital chain has announced an immediate "internal reorganization" and creation of a new business unit that will provide services to other healthcare companies.[Read More]
How About an X Prize for Healthcare?
Healthcare has lots of problems: it's too expensive, it often harms patients rather than heals them, and it's highly inefficient. What if there were a prize attached to the goal of improving healthcare administration. We know that's where the waste is. But what would the criteria be?[Read More]
A Hospital Prevents Readmissions, but Threatens Revenue
An asthma prevention program at Children's Hospital Boston has drastically reduced emergency room visits and hospitalizations. But the program underscores the tension between a hospital's quest for quality and its bottom line.[Read More]
High Healthcare Costs Continue to Provoke Finger Pointing
Judging by the bickering over who holds the cards when it comes to rising rates, providers and health insurers should share the blame along with John Q. Public, who doesn't take care of himself nearly as well as he should. [Read More]
Rounds: Orthopedic Leadership Strategies: Engage, Measure, and Perform
Forward-thinking orthopedic leaders are ensuring high performance and coordination among a carefully constructed caregiver team. Those leaders are also exploring the right metrics to know whether the outcomes they are tracking are the most meaningful to patients. Join the executive and clinical leadership team from nationally renowned MemorialCare Health System and orthopedic innovator Marshall Steele, MD, on March 29 for a three-hour dive into essential orthopedic leadership strategy.
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Sponsored Headlines
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: Mayo Clinic transforms the way it processes and interprets medical imaging results to enable more accurate detection. Powerful algorithms pinpoint potential problem areas within medical images and flag them based on the probability of abnormality. This process transformation increases diagnostic sensitivity for detection of brain aneurysms through intelligent flagging of high-risk areas.
: UCLH had to adhere to the 18wkRTT requirements stated by the U.K. government. The BPM based Patient Tracking System (PTS) enabled them to better manage their clinical pathways and resources and also help improve patient experience by reducing uncertainty in the scheduling of treatments.
: This IBM® RedguideTM describes one of the most significant challenges in healthcare today: the need for healthcare providers to effect patient care positively and proactively in the face of increasing patient load and information overload. IBM WebSphere® business process management (BPM) powered by smart service-oriented architecture (SOA), or BPM powered by Smart SOA, has the potential to maintain the medical common body of knowledge. It also makes critical, current data available to practitioners in a manner that is consistent with the evidence-based, event-driven environment to which healthcare aspires. BPM powered by Smart SOA can also automate healthcare provider administrative and care delivery processes.
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NurseLeaders Forum
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Tips to Engage Nurses in Mandatory Training
From video gaming approaches to learning management systems, unique training strategies can engage nurses and boost participation, says Jo-Ann Byrne, RN, director of education and organizational development at St. Vincent's Healthcare. [Read More]
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Nursing Headlines
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Hospitals shift smoking bans to smoker ban
The New York Times, February 14, 2011
Laughing gas returning as option for laboring moms
The Seattle Times/Associated Press, February 14, 2011
Patient alarms often unheard, unheeded
The Boston Globe, February 14, 2011
No Bacterial Advantage Found in Short-Sleeved Uniforms
HealthLeaders Media, February 11, 2011
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Audio Conferences/Webcasts
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Feb. 17: Nurse Coaching and Mentoring: Set Expectations and Improve Staff Performance
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Does E-Health Stand a Remote Chance?
As technology advances and costs fall, the use of telemedicine expands, but obstacles to achieving e-health success remain. [Read More]
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Improving Head and Neck Cancer Outcomes
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New approaches are resulting in less devastating impact on speech, swallowing, and appearance.[Read More] |
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Audio Feature
Improving nurse-physician communication
Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, MN, one of the HealthLeaders 20, our list of people who are making a difference for good in healthcare, talks about her work to improve nurse-physician communication.[Sponsored by McKesson] [Listen Now]
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