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PHONE+
July 2, 2009 |
Case Study: SRSsoft Provides Customer Service at Optimum Speed SRSsoft integrates Optimum Lightpath's Ethernet-based communications solutions to maintain it's fast response time despite it's increasing number of clients.   |
PHONE+
October 28, 2009 |
Case Study: Family Service League Multiplies Capacity With Optimum Lightpath Optimum Lightpath provided a secure and reliable infrastructure to help this nonprofit organization improve the quality and diversity of services for the community. |
Nursing Management
September 2011
Sally Austin |
What does EMTALA mean for you? When a patient enters your hospital, do you know what your obligations are under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act? |
Managed Care
April 2001
Charles Downey |
EDTUs: Last Line of Defense Against Costly Inpatient Stays Many hospitals already have some variety of emergency diagnostic and treatment units. HMOs and physicians should welcome this level of care... |
InternetNews
April 1, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Online Shopping for Hospitals Hospital Compare gives the nation's hospitals a report card for key best practices. |
BusinessWeek
March 28, 2005
Timothy J. Mullaney |
Saving Lives Shouldn't Be This Hard The health-care system doesn't give patients the tools or the support they need to make confident decisions about choosing doctors, treatments, or hospitals. |
CIO
August 1, 2003
Sarah D. Scalet |
Paperless Medicine Saving Money, Saving Lives Health-care CIOs face intense pressure to install electronic medical records and order-entry systems, in spite of physician resistance and large up-front costs. Here's how early adopters are overcoming the obstacles. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
November 1, 2006 |
Alternative Media: Time to Change the Channel Upgraded hospital television and Internet systems equal new marketing opportunities. |
InternetNews
April 21, 2006
Tim Scannell |
An Active Hand in The Healing Process Hospitals are turning to the Internet and remote reporting technologies to get patients more involved in medical decision-making. |
Science News
March 28, 2009 |
Science Past For March 28, 1959 Thoughts on patient resocialization in a mental hospital during the 1950s. |
CRM
August 1, 2009
Lauren McKay |
Patience for Patients Improved surveying techniques improve a hospital's patient-centricity. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2008 |
Financial Triage Innovative ways that hospitals are looking at patient finances. |
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? |
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. |
CIO
December 15, 2009
Kim S. Nash |
Data Sharing That Benefits Customers At Children's Hospital Boston, sharing more data, securely, promises healthier, more satisfied patients. |
BusinessWeek
January 7, 2010
Catherine Arnst |
Hospitals: Radical Cost Surgery A hospital that slashes costs - and delivers high-quality care as it innovates? Yes, it exists. |
BusinessWeek
March 28, 2005 |
The Doctor: Dr. Lauren Koniaris Online prescribing and record-keeping free her up for patients. |
InternetNews
October 29, 2007
Stuart J. Johnston |
Welcome to Microsoft Medical Center Not content with just providing patients with access to their health records online, Microsoft is getting into the hospital software business, as well. |
Nursing Management
March 2010
Becker & Schmidtke |
All along the watchtower: Suicide risk screening, a pilot study Patients will continue to die if healthcare organizations don't take action and appropriately assess patients at risk for suicide in general hospitals. |
BusinessWeek
March 28, 2005 |
Crusader for Clearer E-Info Entrepreneur Jonathan S. Bush -- yes he's related -- discusses how Web-based medical records can become a workable reality |
InternetNews
March 5, 2008
Susan Kuchinskas |
Eyeing the Personal Health Portal Can Google and Microsoft transform health care the way they changed business? |
InternetNews
August 5, 2010 |
Another Laptop Theft Exposes 21K Patients' Data Philadelphia's Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is in the process of notifying more than 21,000 patients that a stolen laptop has exposed some of their most sensitive personal information. |
BusinessWeek
January 31, 2005
Carol Marie Cropper |
Between You, The Doctor, And The PC More physicians and hospitals are putting their medical records online |
CIO
December 1, 2005
Susannah Patton |
Why Paul Levy Loves His CIO The CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center knows technology saves both lives and money. That's why he's agreed to give his IT department an investment transfusion. |
Managed Care
May 2000
Mark G. Weiner, M.D., and Eric Pifer, M.D. |
Computerized Decision Support and the Quality of Care The notion of quality of care in medicine is not new, but it is becoming increasingly important as the competitive health care market demands objective measures to compare physicians, hospitals, and managed care organizations.... |
CIO
April 10, 2015
Bob Violino |
Dropbox? When is it OK to say 'yes'? A healthcare CIO reverses course and lets doctors use the cloud service, but only with a layer of data encryption for security. |
Job Journal
November 2, 2008
Julia Hollister |
Hospital Jobs The hospital is one workplace where the decisions really are life and death. |
CIO
September 23, 2009
Kim S. Nash |
Booster Shot for E-Health How federal stimulus spending will impact the rollout of electronic medical records. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Sep/Oct 2009
Andrew Dick |
Deal Diagnosis Healthcare real estate transactions not only are driven by economic factors, but also by compliance with federal and state healthcare laws. |
Managed Care
April 2000
Mark Abernathy |
Avoid Common Problems In Risk-Sharing Contracts These arrangements too often become a hindrance instead of a help. Simple precautions today can help prevent major headaches later on. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
August 1, 2005
Lena Chow |
Docs of Shanghai They're short on status, pay, and respect, but China's young doctors hold keys to the world's fastest growing pharmaceutical market. |
Fast Company
February 2010
Kate Rockwood |
An In-Depth Look at the Hospital of the Future The hospital of the future is designed not just to heal the sick but also to help sustain the environment. |
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. |
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. |
CIO
November 1, 2000
Susannah Patton |
The Rx Files Hospitals are prescribing healthy doses of IT to divert costly and sometimes fatal medication errors... |
InternetNews
June 3, 2010 |
UofL Web Site Exposes Patients' Personal Info A doctor at the University of Louisville Hospital set up an internal Web site and data base to track and monitor kidney dialysis patients. The problem is the site wasn't password protected. |
CIO
August 1, 2003
Galen Gruman |
Wireless: Just What the Doctor Ordered As medical records go electronic, hospital CIOs are finding that wireless networks can get the records to where the doctors and nurses want to use them. CIOs in other industries would do well to watch and learn. |
InternetNews
December 14, 2005
Jennifer Schiff |
Saving Lives with Storage When data growth began to strain its storage capacity, Greenwich Hospital expanded its computer system. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
January 1, 2013
Al Topin |
The Doctor-Patient Disconnect Doctor-patient conversations aren't always what we think; this basic interaction represents both a problem and an opportunity for today's drug marketers, says the author. |
AFP eWire
November 19, 2012
Michele Varela |
Turning Challenges Into Opportunities: Fundraising in a Diverse Community It isn't just the community of Scarborough that will face diversity challenges. All of us will. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
June 1, 2014
Ben Comer |
Take as Directed: From Force to Finesse in Promoting Adherence Healthcare players tout patient education and engagement as the keys to better drug adherence rates. Patients agree, as long as that translates to convenient and affordable access to therapy. |
American Journal of Nursing
October 2008 |
Wandering in Hospitalized Older Adults: Identifying Risk is the First Step in This Approach to Preventing Wandering in Patients with Dementia. People who have dementia are at risk for wandering away from the safety of the care setting and becoming lost in the community. Here are three critical elements of prevention and action. |
BusinessWeek
December 3, 2007
Grow & Berner |
Fresh Pain for the Uninsured As doctors and hospitals turn to GE, Citi, and smaller rivals to finance patient care, the sick pay much more. |
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
October 2002
Pamela L. Popp |
How To -- And Not To -- Disclose Medical Errors to Patients Health care facilities and physician practices must commence development and implementation of a disclosure policy. The policy should include a statement of the need and willingness of the patient and physician to have an open and honest relationship and a constant dialogue. |
IDB America
September 2004
Daniel Drosdoff |
A Smarter Use of Healthcare Dollars Trinidad restructures its health system in order to improve quality and make better use of facilities. |
Popular Mechanics
January 22, 2010
Amber Angelle |
How Doctors Without Borders Set Up Field Hospitals in Haiti Setting up a self-sustaining hospital, however, requires a massive logistical effort that must be performed on a tight deadline. |
Nursing Management
July 2011
Lisa Greenlund |
ED violence: Occupational hazard? Workplace violence is an occupational hazard for hospital staff providing psychiatric care in hospital EDs. |
