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- Healthcare Organizations: What to Do When the Low-Hanging Fruit Is Gone
- The cost of providing high quality services within the healthcare organization has increased significantly over the past one or two decades, primarily due to decreased payments and the increased cost of doing business. This has led many organizations to seek outside help in order to find and develop additional methods...
- White papers
- The Healthcare Provider That Outsourced IT After All
- Meadowbrook, Pa.-based healthcare provider Holy Redeemer Health System knows that sometimes, patience and an open mind can be the most effective weapons a company can bring to bear at the bargaining table. In 2000, the company was looking to replace some of its aging healthcare equipment and systems. Siemens presented...
- Case studies
- Six Sigma...Without the Pain: How Healthcare Providers Can Effectively Integrate Six Sigma Into CQI
- The case for adopting Six Sigma in healthcare organizations has more to do with managing the politics and power of quality improvement than applying advanced statistical problem solving tools. For example, in the few hospitals that have successfully deployed Six Sigma, the biggest benefit has been the adoption by the...
- White papers
- U.S. Medical Liability Trend Showing Strong Signs of Improvement
- The U.S. health care industry has been in an escalating state of crisis. The cause of this negative and costly situation is a culmination of increased litigation, lack of affordable medical malpractice insurance and a deficiency in consumer understanding of the medical process. However, many steps have been taken by...
- White papers 2005-10-17
- Supply Chain Solutions for Healthcare Providers - Part 2 - Supply Chain Improvement Opportunities
- Increasingly, hospitals are finding it difficult to maintain profitability. But with proper supply chain planning and execution in key areas, healthcare providers can reduce operating costs. This document identifies the key areas and considers how proper implementation can make the hospital system operate more efficiently. It also further recognizes the...
- White papers 2005-09-30
- A Multi-Dimensional Approach to the Community Perspective in the Balanced Scorecard Architecture for the Public Sector: Empirical Evidence in Healthcare Organizations
- Today Citizens have a multi-dimensional stakeholder role to play in their relationship with Public Sector's organizations. If organizations are not aware of that they will risk to fail in pursuing their mission. This paper describes the differences between performance management and performance evaluation, reviews the most popular Balanced Scorecard "geographies"...
- White papers 2005-08-30
- Impact of NPI on Clearinghouses, Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) and Vendors
- The WEDI SNIP National Provider Identifier NPI Sub Work Group has isolated several issues with the implementation of the NPI standard identifier as mandated by Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA. The purpose of this paper is to identify key issues that impacts Healthcare Clearinghouses, Pharmacy Benefit Managers PBMs...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Healthcare Providers, Technology and Online Security: An IVANS White Paper
- Healthcare providers are increasingly linked both to the outside world via the internet and internally via local area networks. Despite the fact that most have some form of security protection with their Internet connection, they still are concerned about viruses and hackers affecting their networks. This indicates that their confidence...
- White papers 2005-06-29
- Performance Improvement: The Digital Hospital
- Healthcare providers worldwide are dealing with aging facilities and antiquated equipment, cost pressures, more demanding and better educated patients, physician and clinician shortages and a need for improved efficiency and quality in clinical care delivery. Technology offers healthcare organizations a way to address these concerns while improving operations, financial performance...
- White papers 2005-01-30
- Applying Information Lifecycle Management Strategies Enables Healthcare Providers to Accelerate Clinical Workflow
- At healthcare organizations across the world, patient safety may be at risk every time critical information is not available to make an immediate diagnosis at the point of care. At the same time, healthcare providers face a delicate balancing act as they attempt to decrease costs while improving patient safety...
- White papers 2004-12-14
- Product Line Management in Healthcare
- Most healthcare organizations are struggling to find ways to rapidly mobilize and organize their resources to focus on the product, but have a host of barriers to overcome. This article explains that a shift to product line management may be the answer for those healthcare organizations that are willing to...
- White papers 2004-08-10
- Disease Management: Changes and Challenges
- Health care providers have historically used the term disease management DM to describe clinical and patient care strategies for delivering care and support to individuals with specific conditions. The term disease management, as used by payers and managed care organizations as well as employers and purchasers, refers to providing a...
- White papers 2004-06-29
- The Safe and Lean Provider for the Healthcare Industry: Clinical and Business Process Optimization
- The healthcare organizations need to transform inherent business processes and underlying infrastructures in an effort to reduce errors and improve quality in an increasingly demanding delivery environment. In this pursuit, healthcare providers are not unlike their counterparts in other in industries. In helping healthcare providers fuse strategy, process and technology,...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- White Paper: EC Management Guide
- The Environment of Care EC is the most diverse area to master for a healthcare organization in its survey preparation for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations JCAHO. The leader of the EC committee must integrate both clinical and administrative disciplines to ensure that the experience of patients,...
- White papers 2004-01-12
- Using Your PRM System For Planning
- Patient Relationship Management PRM is a more strategic way of assessing patients and the marketplace, and then adjusting services and programs to meet these needs. PRM also shifts healthcare organizations away from geographic market assessments and perspectives to become more customer-focused and driven. This paper will examine how healthcare providers...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Improving Operating Results in Challenging Economic Times
- For many healthcare providers, operating margins are at an all time low and funds raised through philanthropy are scarce. Healthcare managers' inability to truly analyze and validate clinical and business practices is severely hampered by their ability to generate useful, actionable information from the thousands of complex bits of data...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- Operational Efficiencies in Healthcare Organizations: What to Do When the Low-Hanging Fruit Is Gone
- The cost of providing high quality services within the healthcare organization has increased significantly over the past one or two decades, primarily due to decreased payments and the increased cost of doing business. This has led many organizations to seek outside help in order to find and develop additional methods...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Patient Safety, Six Sigma & ISO 9000 Quality Management
- The International Organization for Standardization ISO is determined to help restore the public’s confidence in the health care industry in the U.S. Experts suggest that the ISO 9000 quality management can do wonders to the health care industry. The ISO 9000 quality management has managed to leave a lasting impact...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Effective Branding and e-Strategies: Creating a Strong Online Brand Strategy Is Essential for Today's Healthcare Organizations
- Consumer and service-oriented companies have long been aware of the value of branding. Those with strong brands enjoy heightened success, something that hospitals and other healthcare organizations are beginning to realize, as exhibited by steady increases in expenditures earmarked for brand-building efforts. This article makes the case for why creating...
- White papers 2001-11-01
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- USANA ordered to pay legal fees
- A Utah multilevel marketing company ordered to pay attorney's fees to a critic has one claim left to pursue against the self- styled fraud-buster. USANA Health Sciences Inc. said it would try to show that Barry Minkow worked in cahoots with market players to cause the company's...
- Articles 2008-05-08
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