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7 Resources for Boosting Outpatient Business
If you're facility isn't working on building a strong outpatient component, then you might be up a creek without a paddle. Our HealthLeaders archives are filed with articles on how to grow this area as a source of revenue, and senior editor Cora Nucci pulls out some of the top tidbits of information.
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Healthcare Consolidation Happens Quickly in Kentucky
Experts have been predicting consolidation in the healthcare industry for years, but it's never really happened on the scale the soothsayers anticipated. But now, they may finally be right. Two announcements came blowing out of Kentucky last month that have convinced our senior editor Philip Betbeze that this boon is for real.
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Hospitalists Seek Parity with Hospitals
Healthcare reform is setting off a multitude of repercussions throughout the U.S. healthcare system, not least of which is the changing relationship between physicians and hospitals. With more physician employment, and increasing strain, it is clear that physicians and hospitals will continually need to work on alignment issues. One of the most significant areas of potential change in those relationships may involve hospitalists, whose numbers are increasing.
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Intelligence Report: Hospital Mergers & Acquisitions
Brand-new research shows that 64% of healthcare leaders expect an increase in M&A activity between acute care hospitals and both diagnostic imaging and ambulatory surgery centers. As the transaction tide continues to rise, the newest HealthLeaders Media Intelligence Report, Hospital Mergers & Acquisitions: Opportunities and Challenges, reveals key insights to help keep you afloat. [Read More]
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Rounds: Cardiac Care Leadership for Improved Alignment and Outcomes
Join us live from Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital February 15, at 1:00 PM (EST) and share lessons learned from executives at leading national cardiac service lines and medical groups on shared governance, clinical integration, and physician alignment.
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Finance Forum
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10 Strategies for Healthcare M&A Success
The majority of healthcare merger and acquisition transactions fail to produce the desired financial and strategic results. The often-overlooked key to success is strategic communications planning, says one expert.
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AMA Webcast: The Online Customer Experience—Make it Exceptional: IBM has defined a forward-looking vision for how organizations will turn today's customer experiences into exceptional experiences that drive business results. Join us on September 21 to hear Kristen Lauria, Vice President of Marketing & Channels at IBM, talk about this vision and introduce two innovative clients who are achieving results today by bringing together the right combination of capabilities online.
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Openness: The Basis for a Sound Unified Communications Strategy: The vast majority of customer environments are mixed environments. In this IBM® podcast you'll hear how an open approach provides you with choice. So instead of ripping out a perfectly good infrastructure, you can integrate what you've already invested in and create additional business value.
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Extend the value of your IT and telephony assets: Unifying telephone communications with real-time collaboration tools can help businesses become more efficient. Read this paper to see how IBM® Lotus® Sametime® Unified Telephony software can give your business a competitive edge by extracting more value from your existing investments in telecommunications.
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Demo: Unified Communications and Collaboration tools: Today, there have never been so many ways to communicate—phone, email, conferencing, texts, instant messaging, and more. But unless communication systems are unified with real-time collaboration tools, business opportunities may be lost. Watch this demo to see how IBM® Unified Communications and Collaboration tools can help your business stay competitive.
Save time, money and face—with LotusLive: The right collaboration tools do more than improve productivity and efficiency. Watch this video to see how a management consultancy company used LotusLive™ to improve its services and image to clients—while saving time and money in the process.
LotusLive Engage Demo: Now you can make working together easier than ever. Watch this demo to see how LotusLive™ Engage can help your business store and share documents, build networks and even host web conferences. And how it can also help your business grow by enabling you to react to challenges and opportunities quickly and efficiently.
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Finance Headlines
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12 Ways to Reduce Hospital Readmissions
HealthLeaders Media, December 27, 2010
Georgia hospital pays $13.9M to settle false claims allegations
The Wall Street Journal, December 23, 2010
Saint Joseph Mercy Health System announces merger with IHA
The Detroit News, December 23, 2010
Recommended reading for healthcare executives
The Wall Street Journal, December 23, 2010
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The Physician's Place in the ACO
Development of accountable care organizations may be critical to holding down costs and improving quality. But how will doctors' roles change? [Read More]
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Creating Stroke Systems of Care
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.
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Money Talk
A look at one hospital's struggles to improve
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Rating: AA-
Outlook: Positive
Affected Debt: $1.7 billion
Agency: Standard & Poor's Ratings Services
Remarks: S&P revised its rating outlook to positive from stable and affirmed its AA- rating on various issuers' debt issued for Mayo Clinic. At the same time, S&P affirmed its various other ratings on numerous bonds issued on behalf of Mayo Clinic. Offsetting credit factors include liquidity levels that are still below similarly rated organizations. S&P also considers Mayo Clinic's asset allocation aggressive, with approximately 50% of Mayo's long-term fund in alternative assets. S&P also cites its potential exposure to future Medicare and Medicare physician reimbursement reductions.
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