Care Team Architecture
Creativity and flexibility count, sure. But underlying the successful care team design is a foundation of essential and lasting values.
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Preparing for Comparative Effectiveness Research
To get ready, start with evidence-based medicine.
To get ready, start with evidence-based medicine.
Unlock Value
Decision-support tools are the key to realizing "meaningful use" from EHRs.
Decision-support tools are the key to realizing "meaningful use" from EHRs.
Funding Conundrum
With most hospital pension plans underfunded these days, savvy finance leaders are applying new strategies to stay ahead of their growing liability.
With most hospital pension plans underfunded these days, savvy finance leaders are applying new strategies to stay ahead of their growing liability.
State of Emergency
The nation's emergency departments are feeling the effects of the economic downturn, but innovations in patient throughput and other strategies offer hope for a beleaguered system.
The nation's emergency departments are feeling the effects of the economic downturn, but innovations in patient throughput and other strategies offer hope for a beleaguered system.

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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