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Editor's Picks
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CMS? TeleMed Rule Eases Physician Credentialing
A rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is expected to make it easier for small and critical access hospitals to use telemedicine to link with physicians and other larger hospitals or academic medical centers. The change will also make it easier for small hospitals in underserved areas to access specialty services such as teleradiology, teleICU, and telestroke.
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To Cut Hospital Costs, Leverage Vendor Relationships
Once the ink dries on your vendor contracts—including HIT companies—do they simply get filed away? Many financial leaders would likely respond "Yes", but there's more to supply chain management than getting the best price. Actual supply chain management requires cultivating relationships that can reduce revenue cycle expenses and help a hospital or health system achieve strategic goals.
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Bedside Devices a 'Death Trap,' Says Advocacy Group
Most healthcare providers and consumers may be unaware that the bedrails are classified as medical devices. The Food and drug Administration should ban and order the recall of thousands of Bedside Assistant devices responsible for the strangulation or asphyxiation deaths of four people and for entrapping a fifth patient in a hospital, says the health advocacy group Public Citizen.
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Rounds: Neurological Service Line Growth: Telestroke & Brain Tumor Innovations
Neurological service line success is all about managing the collision of technology, research, and care coordination. Get strategies for managing the collision on May 18, live from Barrow Neurological Institute with invited thought leaders from St. John Providence Health System and St. Luke Hospital.
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Impact Analysis: Leaders Respond to CMS' Proposed ACO Regulations
The proposed regulations are indeed out, but what do they really mean to your organization and the industry? Get reactions from leaders at hospitals, health plans, and physician practices that are already well-versed in ACOs, including Monarch Healthcare, Alegent Health, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan /Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Geisinger Health System, Dean Health System, and Scripps Health.
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Webcast: Achieving Ambulatory Surgery Center Success in the Reform Era
Reform, reimbursement, and reintegration--a triple threat to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) or new opportunities for ROI? Join HealthLeaders Media for a 90-minute Webcast, including Q&A, to learn how to increase the financial return of ASC operations from leaders with proven ambulatory care ROI.
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Tech Headlines
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Many kids with head injuries may not need CT scans
NPR, May 10, 2011
CMS answers more provider questions on MU
Government Health IT, May 10, 2011
Hospitals on alert for X-ray thieves
The Columbus Dispatch, May 10, 2011
3-D printers may someday create replacement human organs
The Washington Post, May 10, 2011
E-Prescribing not meeting expectations
InformationWeek, May 9, 2011
75% of physicians use iPad or iPhone, survey shows
e-WEEK, May 9, 2011
ONC, HIMSS to help grads find IT work
Government Health IT, May 6, 2011
EHRs deemed 'essential' to pediatric healthcare
InformationWeek, May 6, 2011
Panel weighs delaying stage 2 of MU
Government Health IT, May 56, 2011
Telemedicine left out of MU, experts say
Health IT News, May 5, 2011
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Webcasts/Rounds
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May 11: Webcast: Achieving Ambulatory Surgery Center Success in the Reform Era
May 18: Webcast: Ratchet Up Physician Referrals: Proven Methods & Measures
May 18: Rounds: Neurological Service Line Growth: Telestroke & Brain Tumor Innovations
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In an ACO, Who's Accountable?
It can be the hospital, but health plans, physician practices and medical service organizations can also serve as the "accountable" party. [Read More]
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IT Forum
Medical Device Makers: Stop Griping and Embrace Healthcare Reform: During the national healthcare reform debate, many in the medical device industry strenuously objected to contributing their "fair share" to reform through a new tax on their devices. While other healthcare stakeholders accepted the notion of shared sacrifice and agreed to give up collective hundreds of billions of dollars, device companies warned that a new tax would force them to pass on the additional cost to hospitals and patients. And the protests haven't stopped. [Read More] |
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Audio Feature
Building Blocks of the Patient Experience
The healthcare system is on the cusp of accepting the positive influence of patient experience on quality, says Steve Ronstrom, president and CEO of Hospital Sisters Health System Division and CEO of Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire, WI. In a recent interview, the lead advisor for the HealthLeaders Media Intelligence Report, Patient Experience: Help Wanted, explains how basics such as infrastructure and technology combined with the people skills of empathy and caring can improve outcomes. [Listen Now][Sponsored by Medseek] |
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