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Managed Care
June 2004
Jack McCain |
P&T Committees in Position To Reduce Medication Errors Pharmacy & Therapeutics Society works with Institute of Medicine and Leapfrog Group to improve processes.   |
Managed Care
October 2000 |
For Most States, Medical Error Reporting Is Uncertain Science Other industries have figured out how to collect, analyze, and use error data to prevent catastrophes and drive continuous-quality-improvement programs. Health care is only now beginning that process... |
Salon.com
December 7, 1999
Dena Bunis |
Medical mistakes are killing us Health plans covering federal workers will be the first to improve the quality of care. |
Managed Care
May 2002 |
Medication Labels May Soon Include Unique Bar Codes The Food and Drug Administration is expected to unveil regulations this summer that, if implemented, will require bar codes unique to a specific medication and its strength on all prescription drug labels. The agency's proposal is designed to help reduce medication errors |
CIO
November 1, 2000
Susannah Patton |
The Rx Files Hospitals are prescribing healthy doses of IT to divert costly and sometimes fatal medication errors... |
Managed Care
March 2000
Michael Levin-Epstein |
Medical Errors, D.C.'s New Cause - Will Result Be Action, or Just Talk? ...In its landmark study, "To Err Is Human," the Institute of Medicine embarrassed health care by labeling it at least a decade behind other high-risk industries in protecting its customers.... |
Managed Care
December 2004
Adler & Schukman |
The Role of Managed Care In Patient Safety & Error Reduction Patient safety and medical errors have become the focus of increasing attention from the public, policymakers, and accreditation agencies. Managed care organizations clearly are important stakeholders in this issue. |
Managed Care
June 2001
Jack McCain |
Leapfrog Group Actions Will Be Felt Throughout the Health Care System Thanks to a Business Roundtable-sponsored group calling for better outcomes at hospitals, health plans' lobbying efforts may pay off... |
BusinessWeek
January 31, 2005
Carol Marie Cropper |
Between You, The Doctor, And The PC More physicians and hospitals are putting their medical records online |
InternetNews
April 1, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Online Shopping for Hospitals Hospital Compare gives the nation's hospitals a report card for key best practices. |
Nursing Management
January 2011
Dawn Chiarenza |
The CNO/ROI Factor of Accreditation In a time of healthcare reimbursement changes and budget cuts, CNOs seeking Magnet recognition must be able to emphasize benefits to organizational leadership-including return on investment. |
Managed Care
July 2007
Martin Sipkoff |
Hospitals Asked To Account For Errors on Their Watch Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and states may stop paying for specific hospital-acquired conditions. Will health plans follow suit? |
Managed Care
February 2002
Joyce Ochs |
E-Prescribing Gets More Enticing Physicians today are writing prescriptions for patients on palm-held devices that seem eerily akin to medical practice on the Starship Enterprise... |
Nursing
April 2011
Sally Austin |
Stay Out of Court with Proper Documentation Here is a practical guideline to help you document your assessments and interventions completely, accurately, and concisely. Doing so not only improves patient care, but also shields you from legal fallout if something goes wrong. |
Managed Care
February 2007 |
Headlines On Deadline ... Deaths from cancer fell for the second straight year... Giving physicians free electronic prescribing software has been suggested to prevent medication errors... simple patient education intervention encouraged patients to use medications more consistently and continuously... |
Salon.com
June 19, 2000
Lisa Ochs |
In the shadow of a glass mountain One nurse observes how the fear of lawsuits causes healthcare professionals to neglect patients. |
American Journal of Nursing
February 2012 |
Original Research: Nurses' Presenteeism and Its Effects on Self-Reported Quality of Care and Costs This study sought to investigate the extent to which musculoskeletal pain or depression (or both) in RNs affects their work productivity and self-reported quality of care and considered the associated costs. |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2006
Querna & Fischman |
Good Medical Help Close to Home Your local hospital might be just as good as any glittery big-name center. Finding out if your local hospital is up to snuff requires some homework. Here are the major factors in judging the quality of care, courtesy of U.S. News & World Report's annual "America's Best Hospitals" issue. |
Managed Care
May 2005
Frank Diamond |
Hospitals May See Plans as Their New Confidant Not only can health plans pay for performance, they can offer a mechanism for confidential discussions of mistakes. |
Managed Care
June 2003
John Carroll |
Specialty Hospitals' Success Sows Seeds of Lobbying Fight Some in government question the propriety of physicians steering patients into facilities that the doctors partly own. |
Managed Care
February 2001 |
Biz Group Warns Hospitals To Move Quickly on Quality Value-based purchasing, a concept that generates lofty discussion but is not always practiced by employers, took a leap forward with the endorsement of a bloc of some of the nation's largest companies... |
Managed Care
February 2002
Bob Carlson |
Why You Should Care About Improving Clinical Practice Research on quality of care began over 30 years ago. Pages and pages document recent evidence of underuse, overuse, and misuse of resources. Yet only now does change appear imminent, thanks to a growing cadre of passionate reformers who preach clinical practice improvement... |
BusinessWeek
March 28, 2005
Mullaney & Weintraub |
The Digital Hospital Information technology saves lives and money at one medical center, perhaps becoming the future of health care. |
Financial Advisor
June 2012
Stevens et al. |
Economic Good Times Could Be Bad For Your Health Deaths among the elderly may rise in robust economic times because frontline caregivers in nursing homes leave for better-paying jobs elsewhere, which can compromise care given to the elderly in those facilities. |
Salon.com
December 1, 1999
James B. Stewart |
Who's watching the docs? The code of silence in hospitals allows deadly mistakes to happen, but some simple reforms could help... |
BusinessWeek
February 20, 2006
Arlene Weintraub |
Should Doctors Own Hospitals? Controversy builds over a fast-growing, profit-driven business in which specialty hospitals are partly owned and run by doctors. |
Managed Care
September 2005
Ed Silverman |
No Easy Fit For Specialty Hospitals Insurers worry that specialty hospitals will ultimately increase costs at nearby community hospitals |
Managed Care
June 2004
Martin Sipkoff |
The New Consensus Favoring IOM's Definition of Quality The word "quality" is ubiquitous in health care, but what does it mean to health plan leaders, providers, patients, and payers? |
Managed Care
June 2003
Maureen Glabman |
Managed Care Makes It Tough For Some Hospitals To Stay Afloat True, there are other reasons the facilities have closed, but insurers' payment rates stand out. Is it better that some are history? |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2006 |
U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals 2006 Discover the top 3 hospitals nationwide in each medical specialty, plus the three hospitals that led the magazine's 2006 Honor Roll. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore... Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn... Cleveland Clinic... etc. |
InternetNews
June 14, 2010 |
Lax Data Security Results in Heavy Fines Five California hospitals got an expensive reminder of just how serious the state is about protecting patients' sensitive data. Expect more of the same in the near future. |
Nursing Management
April 2009
Sharon H. Pappas |
Profits, Payers, and Patients: Responding to Changes Profit is necessary for hospitals to fulfill their missions, invest in expansion and new technologies, and reinvest in existing patient care infrastructures. Profitability is the work of the financial team and the clinical team to produce the hospital's desired financial outcome. |
Fast Company
April 2012
Christina Chaey |
Stevi Riel Provides Partnerships With Hospitals To Find Affordable Help For Patients This year, the U.S. government started a program for health-care innovators. One innovator, Stevi Riel takes what physicians are too busy to do, and partners with hospitals to find affordable prescription solutions for underinsured patients. |
Nursing Management
October 2011
Edna Cadmus |
Your role in redesigning healthcare We need to rethink how we provide care and to understand the interconnectedness and the structure of healthcare by looking at it as a whole vs. the sum of its parts. As leaders we need to view the evidence as we rethink healthcare together. |
Managed Care
November 2007
Lola Butcher |
Blues Build on CMS Program To Boost Hospital Quality The insurer throws support behind a pay-for-performance program that promises "stunning" advances in cost-effectiveness. |
BusinessWeek
March 28, 2005 |
President Bush's IT Doctor Physician/economist David Brailer, point man for the Administration's push for e-health records, on where the planning stands |
American Family Physician
September 1, 2006
Gardiner & Dvorkin |
Promoting Medication Adherence in Children The problem of getting children to follow a treatment regimen is widespread and is frustrating for physicians. Having the child participate in devising the plan improves adherence. |
American Family Physician
July 1, 2000 |
Letters to the Editor On whether physicians should be 'Bending the Rules to Get a Medication'... |
Pharmaceutical Executive
November 1, 2006 |
Alternative Media: Time to Change the Channel Upgraded hospital television and Internet systems equal new marketing opportunities. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 4, 2007
Sean Silverthorne |
Is Health Care Making You Better--or Dead? Today's American health care system is set up structurally to reward the major players - hospitals, health insurers, and lawmakers - while short-changing patients and taxpayers. |
Managed Care
July 2001
Maureen Glabman |
Provider Shortage Puts HMOs In Bind Increasing demand for physicians and physician extenders is starting to strain the system. To a large extent, this is unexpected bitter fruit of managed care's labor... |
American Family Physician
March 15, 2001
Sarah Morgan & Lori Parry |
Quantum Sufficit Weather forecasts designed to give hospitals and primary care physicians early warning of projected increases in illnesses and injuries... 11 things physicians can do to build good doctor-patient relationships... Teaching hospitals vs. nonteaching facilities... |
