Why Is The ED Such A Pain?
The emergency department has a culture all its own with a unique set of challenges to match. It's also your hospital's window to the community. So you'd better make it work.
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A City's Answer to the Uninsured
San Francisco aims to provide care to 82,000 residents without health insurance. Will other cities follow suit?
San Francisco aims to provide care to 82,000 residents without health insurance. Will other cities follow suit?
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Claiming Their Due
Many providers struggle to bill for services amid a maze of contractual allowances, but sophisticated software is helping some hospitals and physician groups better manage the time value of money.
Many providers struggle to bill for services amid a maze of contractual allowances, but sophisticated software is helping some hospitals and physician groups better manage the time value of money.
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Alternative Goes Mainstream
A growing number of hospitals are embracing alternative treatments to boost patient satisfaction and improve care quality. But can integrative medicine programs make money?
A growing number of hospitals are embracing alternative treatments to boost patient satisfaction and improve care quality. But can integrative medicine programs make money?
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Where Did We Put That Wheelchair?
Asset tracking systems can help hospitals keep tabs on their ever-moving inventory. But one size does not find all.
Asset tracking systems can help hospitals keep tabs on their ever-moving inventory. But one size does not find all.
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Emergency Department Trends
Emergency Department Trends: Perhaps no part of the hospital is more problematic-and more critical to the success of the facility as a whole-than the emergency department. The ED is a unique culture within the larger framework of the hospital, and as the hospital's "front door" to the public, its influence continues to grow; one study showed that in 2005, the ED represented the admission source for 45 percent of all inpatients.
Loose Lips
"A for-profit is going to do what a for-profit does, which is eat smaller fish."
-Jim Moffatt
"A for-profit is going to do what a for-profit does, which is eat smaller fish."
-Jim Moffatt
Emergency Repairs
At one point in my career, I was a television critic hobnobbing in Hollywood with network actors, executives and producers. I remember back in 1994 I was at a reception for NBC's new fall shows at the Universal Hilton in Los Angeles talking to Anthony Edwards, whom at that time I only knew as Gilbert in Revenge of the Nerds. He was promoting his new show, another medical drama titled simply ER.
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