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When it comes to improving your organization's patient flow, choosing the right tools is as important as developing the right plan.
Materials management is no longer simply a product purchasing function - it has gone beyond procurement and into analyzing how products are being used and just as importantly, where the products are at any given time.
To those outside of healthcare, the term "Transformers" likely evokes images of the action-packed movie adventures where the development of transformation technology is crucial to survival. However, this comparison is not entirely unfamiliar to today's hospital C-suite.
We hear a great deal about healthcare consolidation today. The truth is, it has been happening in earnest for two to three years already, and it isn't showing any signs of slowing down.
With an eye towards more integrated care delivery and a new business line, two of Atlanta's largest health systems are forming an insurance company.
When Congress passed the early morning fiscal cliff compromise there was largely relief across the country. Unfortunately, when it comes to brinksmanship politics, the fine print can get a bit messy and there is often collateral damage and the healthcare sector took a couple of those hits.
Now that the Affordable Care Act has survived the Supreme Court ruling and the presidential election, one of last year's other big issues is moving to the forefront for 2013: reimbursements.
When Steve Woods' wife was pregnant, he put on what he calls "sympathy weight." That was a dozen years ago. "She went back to her svelte, in-shape figure and I've maintained the sympathy weight," he said.
As hospitals face penalties for readmissions, they are implementing programs to enhance care coordination to keep patients from returning to the hospital.
Despite the fact that most discussions about health information exchanges focus on technology, the real force that will drive them forward is a solid return on investment for healthcare providers, said a group of experts at a joint hearing of the federal advisory Health IT Policy and Standards committees on Jan. 29.