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Healthcare Emergency: Shortage Of Nurses Will Impact Patient Care : Infographic
Healthcare reform is here; this coupled with the aging population of the United States, all evidence points to the extraordinary need of advanced Nurse Leaders for today, and into the future. Currently Registered Nurses make up the largest segment of professional healthcare workers in our nation. However, these nurses are not immune to aging. Read More »
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Healthcare Quality Metrics 'Abysmal,' Senate Panel Hears
Quality experts, including the CEO of the National Quality Forum and a former CMS administrator, caution members of the Senate Finance Committee that healthcare quality measures must be better coordinated to be effective. Read More »
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Help Us Put Blue Button On The Map
How do we talk about the Blue Button Initiative in a way that really gets the attention of those who don’t already know about it or haven’t thought about its benefits? Read More »
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HIMSS Names Advisory Panel For Government Health IT Conference
With the ninth annual Government Health IT Conference and Exhibition coming up, HIMSS has selected seven honorary members to an advisory committee that will help shape the program. Read More »
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HIMSS Unwraps Tools To Measure HIT Value, Success
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society today announced the release of a new online collection of data – both quantitative and qualitative – designed to help providers, lawmakers and other stakeholders research the value of health information technology. Read More »
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HIMSS13: What Will Happen When The Health IT Boom Ends?
With HIMSS13 less than a week away, much of the news surrounding the annual event centers on new products and services health IT developers and vendors are looking to sell to healthcare organizations and providers with the promise of improving patient care and ostensibly reducing costs... Read More »
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HIT Vendor Alliance Comments On Lifting Interoperability Barriers
The CommonWell Health Alliance, announced in March and comprising a handful of health information technology vendors collaborating to cooperate on systems interoperability issues, has responded to a federal request for information on ways to advance interoperability and health information exchange. Read More »
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Hospital CEO Pay Not Tied To Quality
The compensation of nonprofit hospital executives wasn't linked to processes of care, patient outcomes, or the charity care the facility provided, a retrospective observational study found. Read More »
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Hospital Chain Inquiry Cited Unnecessary Cardiac Work
In the summer of 2010, a troubling letter reached the chief ethics officer of the hospital giant HCA, written by a former nurse at one of the company’s hospitals in Florida. In a follow-up interview, the nurse said a doctor at the Lawnwood Regional Medical Center, in the small coastal city of Fort Pierce, had been performing heart procedures on patients who did not need them, putting their lives at risk. Read More »
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Hospital IT Spending Jumps High
Hospital executives have never been frivolous when it comes to investing in technology, but as reimbursements shrink, the need to carefully analyze each purchasing decision has never been more urgent. Read More »
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Hospital-Acquired Infections Cost $10 Billion A Year
The five most common infections that patients get after they've been admitted to the hospital cost the U.S. health care system almost $10 billion a year, a new study shows. Read More »
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Hospitals Align To Push For Device Interoperability
A coalition of hospitals and health systems formed this month will push for increased medical device interoperability as a means for improving patient care and lowering costs. Read More »
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Hospitals Lagging In Assessing Interoperability Needs
Though healthcare executives understand the importance of timely electronic exchange of information among care providers, nearly half have yet to fully assess their health information exchange and interoperability needs, according to an ECRI Institute survey. Read More »
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Hospitals Profit From Surgical Errors, Study Finds
Hospitals make money from their own mistakes because insurers pay them for the longer stays and extra care that patients need to treat surgical complications that could have been prevented, a new study finds. Read More »
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How Are EHR Contracts Getting More Difficult?
EHR contracts contain an increasing array of complicating structures and dense terms that offer fewer and fewer commitments to your practice... Read More »
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