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Christopher J Gearon

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At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed2003

Back to school. Lifelong learning comes to health care.

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System's corporate university is designed to nurture lifelong learning for its 30,000 employees, and heighten their skills and enthusiasm for their work. "The better you teach your employees and motivate them, the better for your bottom line," contends CEO Michael Dowling.

Boston↗
PubMed2002

Point and click. (If only it were that easy.).

Along with tight reimbursement and confounding regulations, any list of big headaches for health care leaders includes information technology. We've been promised so much from IT for so long, and have been disappointed so many times, who can blame us for being skeptical, if not downright cynical? When is the last time an investment in information technology actually improved your bottom line? But we know we can't dismiss IT altogether. At the end of the rainbow there really is efficiency, security and better care for patients. So how close are we? In this issue, H&HN takes a hard look at technology--what it can do for us today and tomorrow. We look at return on investment, examining whether hospitals are measuring what they get back against what they put in; a budding effort to bring a common platform to health care IT; handheld computers; electronic medical records; and computerized physician order entry. The technology is out there, but it's fair to ask: is it really clicking yet?

Computer Communication Networks↗
PubMed2002

Quality. Your results rewarded.

A new program is intended to sidestep the strained relationship between hospitals and managed care companies by awarding monetary grants to hospitals for their proven quality programs.

Financing, Organized↗
PubMed2002

Planetree (25 years older).

"Patient-centered care" sounds like the slogan for an era in which consumers are taking more responsibility for their health care choices. In fact, it has been the foundation of the Planetree Model since 1978, when disenchantment with the hospital experience led to a philosophy that puts patients first. Twenty-five years later, Planetree-affiliated hospitals say the payoff is significant in terms of patient and staff satisfaction, and the bottom line.

Hospital Administration↗