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Beyond Meaningful Use
Technology can help the healthcare industry achieve better outcomes and cost savings, but only if providers incorporate decision-support tools and a coordinated approach to delivering care.

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Tapping In to Top Leadership
The HealthLeaders Media Industry Survey 2010 report is based on seven concurrent surveys sent to healthcare leaders in seven segments across the industry: CEO, finance, technology, physician, health plan, marketing, and quality leaders. In addition, data has been extracted based on community and rural status.
Leadership: Both Potential, Peril Foreseen
Technology: Still a Long Way to Go
Physicians: Turning the Corner
Finance: Buoying the Bottom Line
Quality: Challenges from Within
Marketing: Potential and Pitfalls Ahead
Health Plans: A Familiar Debate
Community and Rural: Recruiting, Retention, and RACs Top Concerns
Testing the Limits of Lean
Hospitals are into this management technique, but key employee buy-in can be lost in translation.
Stepping In or Stepping Up
Five-Minute Consult
Smartphone Apps Liberating Clinicians, Improving Quality
Smartphone applications are liberating clinicians and administrators and improving quality all at the same time.
Virtual Desktops: Benefits in Security, Simplicity
Future Tense: Lensless Cell Phone Microscope
Does Guaranteed Payment Guarantee Benefit?
A new payment model could mean lower costs and higher quality.
Money Talk
Minimize RAC Takeback
Imaging After the Recession
After freezing capital spending during the recession, hospitals are investing in imaging again. But reimbursement cuts and reform have changed the focus of the service line.

Mission Possible

Mission statements are often mocked for being uselessly generic. Random mission statement generators (really) can spit out any combination of "trust" and "teamwork" and "patient needs." Yet many real mission statements adopted by hospitals and healthcare systems are seriously specific, with careful and clear thought given to who should be served, how they should be served, and how management and the medical staff should work together toward those ends.

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