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- Tactics to Improve Quality and Recover Costs
- Many tools and techniques exist to improve process flow and to match staffing and resources to patient demand. This article discusses the Six Sigma techniques at uncovering process waste that reduces process performance and contributes to the cost of poor quality. Flow optimization and capacity optimization are both vital components...
- White papers 2003-04-11
- CPS: The Comprehensive Solution to Hospital Pharmacy Management Challenges
- Comprehensive Pharmacy Services CPS is the nation's leading independent provider of pharmacy management services. Being privately owned, CPS' incentives are always aligned with those of their clients, not a parent corporation whose incentives may differ depending on the pharmaceutical vendor or GPO scenarios. CPS offers a customer focused service that...
- White papers 2005-03-23
- The Role of 'Access Management' in the New World of Consumer Directed Healthcare
- This paper describes about a recent HFMA survey, 56 percent of CFOs said they intend to focus on their front-end revenue cycle processes to decrease their denial rates. These are the kinds of challenges that a new breed of Patient Access Management companies are focusing on. Technology solution providers are...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Offering "An Apple a Day" Through Technology
- This paper describes the study which found that obesity outranked both smoking and drinking on its effects on health and health costs, revealing that obesity has roughly the same association with chronic health conditions as does twenty years of aging - greatly exceeding the associations with smoking or problem drinking.
- White papers 2005-04-26
- Improving Sepsis Diagnosis: Key to Better Patient Outcomes, Higher Reimbursement
- This paper describes about the incidence of sepsis?a severe and sometimes fatal immunological response to infection?is on the rise in the United States, with serious implications for the health of patients and the financial health of hospitals. With sepsis on the rise, it is more important than ever for hospitals...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Reconsidering Physician Employment
- This paper describes about hiring physicians can be an effective response to physician shortages, program development, and care coordination. However, physician employment is not a strategy; it is a tactic that will help you achieve your strategy. The larger strategy must encompass a rationale for pursuing employment, and must include...
- White papers 2005-06-17
- URAC's Consumer Education and Support Standards: Set Stage for New Consumer-Centric Market
- This paper describes the Consumer-directed health care CDH which can no longer be termed an "emerging" market segment. In 2004, 43 percent of employers responding to a Mercer Human Resources survey reported they already offered CDH plans; 73 percent of respondents said they were likely to offer the plans by...
- White papers 2005-06-02
- Medical Real Estate: Trends in Third Party Development From Niche To Mainstream
- This paper describes about an attractive alternative to hospital owned and financed outpatient facilities and medical office buildings. The ownership options available to hospitals considering the development of new medical projects have expanded greatly over the past few years and are likely to continue to evolve in the foreseeable future....
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Converging Pathways - A Journey Towards Quality Case Management
- Development of case management as a profession surged in the latter part of the last century, due in large part to the birth in 1990 of two quality-focused organizations - URAC and the Case Management Society of America CMSA. While CMSA focused its efforts on the standards of practice for...
- White papers 2005-06-15
- Developing Physician Strategy
- A successful hospital needs to work closely with its medical staff. That sounds like a no-brainer, but too often hospitals get mired in bad relations with their physicians. For those hospitals that do it right, their strategy incorporates a physician focus and burns in the idea that physicians are strategic...
- White papers 2004-03-30
- ER Six Sigma Effort Results in 50% Satisfaction Improvement and $4 Million Cost Recovery, Part II
- The story of the Morton Plant ER's story illustrates a multi-year strategic use of Six Sigma compared to the more common "one project at a time" approach. While Six Sigma can certainly affect quality and recover costs of quality through a short-term, on a project basis, its power was magnified...
- Case studies 2003-01-31
- ER Six Sigma Effort Results in 50% Satisfaction Improvement and $4 Million Cost Recovery, Part I
- Six Sigma is often portrayed as a one project-at-a-time type of approach, yet its real power is in a long-term strategic application. This case illustrates how one ER established a three-year goal to become world-class and organized Six Sigma 100-Day Plan teams to achieve that goal. The ER's goal was...
- Case studies 2003-01-17
- Disaster Planning: How Healthcare Prepares for Crisis
- This paper describes about HealthLeaders roundtable which pulled together a panel of healthcare executives who have faced crisis situations on the front lines. Their firsthand experience with bioterrorism, floods, hurricanes and earthquakes taught them valuable lessons about preparing for future disasters. The issues discussed in this report includes: hospital and...
- White papers 2002-05-01
Additional Resources
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- AARP Health and Wellness Center www.aarp.org/health Aetna InteliHealth Inc. www.intelihealth.com Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality www.ahcpr.gov American Heart Assn. www.amhrt.org Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc., Diabetes Watch www.diabeteswatch.com Centers for Disease Control and Prevention www.cdc.gov ...
- Research articles 2003-11-03
- HealthLeaders Executive Survival Guide: Practical Advice to Help Deal With Your Everyday Realities
- One will have seen the headlines: a mistyped organ donor, an unnecessary mastectomy, mass layoffs, labor strife. Even the most respected healthcare organizations face crises every day. Some of these become the top nightly TV news story. Others are splashed across the front page of the local newspaper. How healthcare...
- White papers 2005-01-15
- HealthLeaders Executive Survival Guide: Practical Business Advice for CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CMOs, COOs and CNOs
- E-mail has dramatically transformed the nature of business communication in the past few years. It is supposed to be a simpler way of communicating, but it doesn't always work out that way. A director of compliance at the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, a Chicago-based group practice with about 525 physicians,...
- White papers 2005-01-03
- Heathcare Roundup: HCA Profits Rise, Allina Refunds Interest, Electronic Scripts Up, and More
- HCA profits rise â€" The profits of HCA, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital chain, are expected to rise markedly for the first quarter of 2009. HCA said that it anticipates first-quarter pre-tax income of $600 to $650 million, compared with $344 million for the prior-year period. Revenue is predicted to...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Battle to Cover Small Business, The
- Horizon makes comeback against market leaders in fight for commercial enrollees THIRD-PLACE HEALTH CARE insurer Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is gaining ground on leaders Aetna Inc. and UnitedHealthcare in the highly competitive fight for commercial enrollees in the state, according to a recent report....
- Research articles 2008-01-07
- Healthcare Roundup: Enthoven's Take on Reform, Help For Small Practices, Docs Drop Credit Cards, and More
- Eminent Economist Speaks - Alain Enthoven, a professor emeritus of management at Stanford University, has weighed in against the public option that many Democrats espouse. In a New York Times op-ed piece cowritten with David Riemer, director of the Community Advocates Public Policy Institute in Milwaukee, Enthoven, who supplied much...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Survey: Large Employers Unaware of Rising Radiology Costs, Opportunity for Savings
- NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Radiology costs are soaring, but many corporate benefit managers don't know it and have no formal plans for controlling these costs, according to a survey of benefit executives at large U.S. corporations conducted for MedSolutions, a radiology cost management consultant based in Franklin, Tenn. Only one-third...
- Research articles 2006-06-08
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