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Cognitive Dissonance on Pharma Ghostwriting: Yesterday's news on Merck's prolific use of ghostwriters to produce medical-research articles yielded lots of coverage, much of it highly critical. Still, there was a fair bit of cognitive dissonance in the media, which couldn't seem to decide if Merck's actions amounted to venial or mortal sins. ...; Tags: Physician, Agent, Health Care, Health Care Facility, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Real Estate, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Business Operations, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-17
Aetna's Ron Williams Speaks -- And Actually Says Something: This Fortune interview with Aetna CEO Ron Williams is a few days old, but as it just popped up in my RSS reader, it is, as they say, new to me. Since it's pretty rare to see someone like Williams candidly discuss the health-plan business, its problems and some intriguing...; Tags: Physician, Decision Support, Aetna Inc., Health Care, Dermatologist, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Electronic Medical Records: Bad for Health?: Electronic medical records could let patients travel freely to doctors of their choice, improve their odds of getting the right care in emergencies and reduce medical errors, duplicated tests and unnecessary prescriptions. They're also the standard in most industrialized nations as well as U.S. healthcare systems such as the Cleveland...; Tags: Electronic Record, Patient, Physician, Electronic Health Record, Health Care, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-29
FDA, Industry Redouble Efforts to Foil Drug Counterfeiters: Noting a dramatic increase in counterfeiting within the U.S., and more-sophisticated packaging and distribution channels, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rolled out a new initiative designed to protect the public from counterfeit products. Pharmaceutical manufacturers also face increasing losses (graph) and liability from counterfeiting. The paper informs that FDA...; Tags: Federal government, FDA, manufacturer, homeland security, physician, U.S., best practice, patient, strategy, industry; White papers
Medical Staff Development Plan: Mission Hospitals in Asheville, North Carolina represent the only tertiary service providers in a 20 county area in western North Carolina. The hospital needed a physician manpower plan to help ensure that it was meeting the needs of the community in the near term. They also needed a better understanding...; Tags: physician, manpower, North Carolina, survey, analysis, health care; Case studies

Florida Hospital's Message to physicians About Six Sigma: Concerns about the quality of healthcare in the United States have escalated during the past decade. The failure of effective and efficient processes within healthcare has led to an unsafe environment, staggering numbers of medical errors (by omission and commission), and countless near misses. As healthcare and the system that...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, iSixSigma, physician, health care, Six Sigma, commission, environment; White papers
Royal College of physicians: The Royal College of Physicians wanted to improve data quality and timeliness to better track effectiveness. It implemented Verity TeleForm to capture data and manage the results from its UK census of consultant physicians. The solution automated the processes surrounding thou-sands of critical questionnaires for UK doctors and also improved...; Tags: Verity Inc., data quality, physician; Case studies
Defining and Driving Productivity: A health care system employing 600 physicians at 12 inpatient and outpatient sites needed to get a handle on physician productivity, staffing needs, and costs. The system faced the financial pressures of being in a fragmented, multiplayer industry, being squeezed from many directions. Management needed to develop a definition of...; Tags: physician, Mercer, staffing, health care, patient, survey, performance, financial, industry, tool; Case studies
Health Maintenance Organizations and the Changing physician Workforce: The composition of the U.S. physician workforce and its geographical distribution are critical to the efficient functioning of the health care system and the provision of quality health care. Many analysts believe that the growth of managed care in recent years has decreased earning opportunities for specialists while not affecting,...; Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, RAND Corp., physician, HMO, health care, workforce; White papers
Developing Retention Strategies: A nonprofit medical center with 200 beds and 2,000 employees plus a physician network wanted to be sure of keeping key executives in the event of a change in control. Initially, the contracts were to cover pay and performance and contain clauses on severance and change in control. As the...; Tags: Workforce management, Mercer, termination, physician, board, performance; Case studies
Functional Outsourcing: Pacific Partners Management Services (PPMSI), a Foster City, CA-based company, was actually formed when its parent, the Santa Clara County Individual Practice Association (SCCIPA), decided to stop outsourcing its administrative functions in 1996 and 1997. SCCIPA took those operations in-house and later spun out PPMSI as a separate entity. PPMSI...; Tags: physician, outsourcing, consulting, workflow management, outsource, patient; Case studies
Sutter Health Improves Patient Care & physician Connectivity With Single Patient View: Sutter Health is one of the nation's leading not-for-profit networks of hospitals, doctors, nurses and other community-based health care providers, delivering high-quality care in more than 100 Northern California communities. In 1998, Sutter launched an initiative to implement best-of-breed applications needed to support leading edge clinical and business operations. To...; Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, SeeBeyond Technology Corp., Sutter Health, IT investment, health care, physician, IT infrastructure, information technology, team, network; Case studies
Wireless Technology Dramatically Reduces Medication Errors: Bar Code System's Approach and Effectiveness Earns Multiple Innovator Awards: Appropriate medication administration requires a strong system of checks and balances to standardize delivery from the time a doctor writes a prescription to the moment the drug is given to a patient. To systematically eliminate medication errors, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) partnered with EDS to develop the Bar Code...; Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., prescription, physician, wireless technology, patient, handheld, wireless; Case studies
Endometriosis: Endometriosis is an enigmatic disease affecting about 7% of reproductive-aged women -approximately 5 million Americans. Although they may suffer significant symptoms ranging from pelvic pain to infertility, most of these women do not know that they have endometriosis. Physicians' understanding of the clinical presentation of endometriosis, its proper diagnosis and...; Tags: Gender and diversity, women, physician, patient; White papers
Changing Views of Chiropractic: And a National Reappraisal of Nontraditional Health Care: For half a century, the American Medical Association waged war against chiropractic, an intervention that relies on spinal adjustments to treat health problems. Chiropractors were regarded as the modern-day equivalent of snake-oil salesmen. Today, chiropractors are the third largest group of health care providers, after physicians and dentists, who treat...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, RAND Corp., physician, health care, patient, adjustment; White papers
The Changing Face of Locum Tenens Practice: The paper reveals that weekly; thousands of physicians pack their bags and travel across the country to work on assignments lasting from a few days to several months, or longer. They provide coverage at hospitals, community clinics, managed care organizations, single- and multi-specialty practices, government medical facilities, and large healthcare...; Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Skyscape Inc., physician, patient, agency, health care; White papers
physician Team Case Study: Physician compensation dropped to 75% of benchmark 2 years in a row for a 16-physician specialty group after significantly increasing their debt for ancillary services and outreach offices. Physician compensation needed to turn around within 90 days to keep the group from breaking up. Phase 2 Consulting was engaged. Staffing,...; Tags: physician, staffing, incentive; Case studies
Western Maryland Health System (WMHS): Healthcare Web Portal Increases physician Efficiency, Saves 100 Hours per Week: Based in Cumberland, Maryland, the Western Maryland Health System (WMHS) provides healthcare - including medical, surgical, pediatric, and obstetric services - to western Maryland. WMHS uses the MEDITECH Healthcare Information System to manage its operations and medical records from text-based terminals. The organization needed to simplify physician access to patient...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., physician, Maryland, application framework, medical record, health care, Web portal, information system, patient, portal, Internet; Case studies
University of Minnesota physicians (UMphysicians): Academic Medical Group Enhances Patient Care and Records Management: University of Minnesota Physicians is a multi-specialty teaching hospital with about 550 full-time faculty physicians; it receives more than 330,000 patient visits annually. Clinic management wanted to replace a paper-based medical records system with an electronic solution to reduce operating costs and improve service for patients. After an extensive evaluation...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Microsoft Corp., University of Minnesota, physician, patient, records management, electronic health record, medical record, software; Case studies
2005 Hospital Professional Liability and physician Liability Benchmark Analysis: This article presents a comprehensive analysis, which involves examining more than 200,000 hospital bed equivalents and representing approximately 10 percent of the hospital professional liability market and 15 percent of the alternative segment of the market. This analysis is the largest of its kind and an invaluable tool for health...; Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Aon Corp., analysis, Risk Manager, health care, physician, tool; White papers