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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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• Nudging Physicians Toward Accountability
• Steward Health vs. Nurses Union Fight an Ugly Harbinger
• Meaningful Use or Useful Life? Can Both Exist?
• Impact Analysis Report—The Next Phase of Cost Control
• Top News From Around the Web

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Nudging Physicians Toward Accountability

By: Gienna Shaw, for HealthLeaders Media, January 11, 2012

A hospital leader discovers that putting the focus on culture as well as clinical and economic integration, can open physicians' eyes to accountable care structures.

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Steward Health vs. Nurses Union Fight an Ugly Harbinger

By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, January 10, 2012

Animosity between a Massachusetts hospital operator and a nurses union has escalated to toxic levels. It's not hard to foresee a broken healthcare landscape where labor and management are locked in perpetual battle and patients are caught in the middle.

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Meaningful Use or Useful Life? Can Both Exist?

By: Jim Molpus, for HealthLeaders Media, January 10, 2012

A reliable system of interoperable electronic medical records is the make-or-break operational evolution for healthcare to have even the chance to reduce costs and improve care. But there is a difference between a sustained investment in a long-term "utility" and throwing capital at vaporous, "disposable" systems.

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Impact Analysis Report—The Next Phase of Cost Control

By: January 6, 2012

This third report in a series of four from the inaugural HealthLeaders Media CFO Exchange provides insight on cost containment from leaders at Banner Health, Wellmont Health System, Parkland Health & Hospital System, Floyd Memorial Hospital & Health Services, and Trinity Regional Health System. Eighteen percent cite "no culture of being cost-conscious" as their greatest organizational challenge to cost reduction.

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Around the Web

• Opinion: Mostashari on a year of HIT progress
  HealthcareITNews, January 11, 2012
• NH: A state at war with its hospitals
  Government Health IT, January 11, 2012
• Hospitals cutting costs by not treating gunshot victims right away
  Business Insider, January 11, 2012
• NJ single-room surgeries to operate under same rules as hospitals, ASCs
  NJSpotlight.com, January 11, 2012
• Doctors win suit against hospital over abuse by boss
  The Record, January 11, 2012
• Battle over San Leandro Hospital not yet over
  The Oakland Tribune, January 11, 2012
• TX asks feds to delay health insurance rebate plan
  NPR, January 11, 2012
• Court ruling won't kill ACA, hospital chief predicts
  Highland Park News / Chicago Sun Times, January 11, 2012
• Gateway Society to reverse decline in black men entering medical school
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 11, 2012
• A 'Star Trek'- inspired $10M X Prize for revolutionizing healthcare
  CNET.com, January 11, 2012
• Happy birthday, New England Journal of Medicine!
  The Boston Globe, January 11, 2012

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Features

• Q&A: Farzad Mostashari on Meaningful Use, Privacy
  Margaret Dick Tocknell, for HealthLeaders Media, January 10, 2012
• 5 Nuggets of Wisdom from CFOs
  Karen Minich-Pourshadi, for HealthLeaders Media, January 9, 2012
• 10 Hospital Technologies to Watch Carefully
  Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, January 9, 2012
• 4 Vital Issues for Physicians in 2012
  Joe Cantlupe, for HealthLeaders Media, January 5, 2012

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