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IF EVER THERE WAS an administrative process tailor-made for top-down direction, it’s workflow redesign. It starts with a senior executive master plan and gravitates through the organization...
When the landmark 1999 Institute of Medicine report To Err is Human revealed that tens of thousands of people die each year from medical errors, the news was not a surprise to the profession, said Elizabeth Summy, executive director of the American Society of Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM).
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY is being touted as a cost-saving solution in healthcare. Three years ago, President Bush put forward the challenge for everyone to have an electronic health record by 2014 to...
Thousands of lives could be saved with information technology for diabetes management, but a new report suggests that only one form of diabetes IT is cost-effective as well....
According to a senior policy advisor for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), this year's top Democrat healthcare agenda includes "major" expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Pr...
Contributed by Mark Sedlmeier Healthcare equipment financing is surging forward to keep pace with unprecedented spending, with institutions designating more capital for equipment than ev...
Improving patient care and satisfaction are the top business issues facing executives at healthcare delivery systems across the country, according to the 18th annual HIMSS Leadership survey released t...
ELMWOOD PARK, NJ – Emdeon Corp. will soon be rolling out an initiative to help connect payers and providers with an electronic payment and remittance service. Emdeon is planning...
NEW ORLEANS – Mapping out prospective savings in specific service lines has helped Salem (Ore.) Hospital executives make the case for a significant deployment of information technology....
NEW ORLEANS – The sharing of data is creating more uses for healthcare information, such as research that drives both lower costs and better care. But before data can be used for esot...
