The medical workplace. No abuse zone.
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Employee Discipline↗
Biomedical subjects
Jan Greene
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Procurement. Groceries or meds?
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California↗
Employee satisfaction. A happy workplace.
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Attitude of Health Personnel↗
Dr. Discontent.
Physicians are angry, that that's bad news for hospitals. Increasingly, doctors are unable to pay soaring liability insurance premiuyms, are refusing to accept new Medicaid and Medicare patients, and are balking at taking ED calls. What's more, many physicians are setting up niche facilities that compete directly with hospitals in the most lucrative service lines.
Attitude of Health Personnel↗
Rural renewal. As momentum builds, critical access hospsital program shows signs of success.
The critical access hospital program looks like a success so far, keeping vulnerable rural facilities from closing and maintaining a continuum of care in communities where the next nearest hospital might be hours away. Although conversions can be bumpy, one in four rural hospitals is now a CAH and that number is increasing.
Health Facility Planning↗
Managed care. HMO boot camp.
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Insurance, Health, Reimbursement↗
Side by side. Communication is key to a successful side by side CEO-board chair partnership.
Great partnerships require hard work, and that goes double for the health care board chair and CEO, whose relationship is complicated by a whole host of issues. But the effort will pay off in organizational success. One essential element: frequent, two-way communication.
California↗
Legal issues. After an assault.
In California, a health care worker who was attacked on the job by a patient sued her attacker. She won the lawsuit but lost her job. Hospitals are torn between obligations to people who come to them for care and employees who deliver it.
California↗
Rural health care. Against the odds.
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Employee Incentive Plans↗
Information technology. Keep'em happy.
What does it take to keep your information technology staff satisfied on the job? The answers are surprisingly mundane: salary and opportunity to advance. One important strategy might be to look for potential IT talent in other departments of your hospital.
Attitude of Health Personnel↗
E-prescribing. Poison pill.
As Internet-based pharmacies proliferate, hospitals--and regulators--scramble to keep pace. When in e-prescribing legitimate, and when does it subvert the medical process?
Advertising↗
Quality of care. Intensivist pain.
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Critical Care↗
Navigating the niche. Three markets respond to the influx of specialty facilities--Indianapolis, Phoenix, Columbus.
Specialty centers that focus on lucrative services such as cardiology and orthopedics pose a challenge to full-service hospitals in already crowded health care markets. We examine how hospitals in three markets have responded, from aggressively working to keep niche facilities from gaining a foothold to partnering with physicians on their own centers.
Arizona↗
Information technology. That's Dr. CIO.
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Career Mobility↗
Nurses. Plugged in.
Infrared technology allows hospitals to keep track of where their nurses are. Hundreds of hospitals use such systems--but some nurses say that they violate their privacy.
Efficiency, Organizational↗
Patient safety. Jump on board.
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Health Care Coalitions↗
IT/wireless. Peace and quiet.
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Computer Communication Networks↗
Building smarter EDs.
Flexibility is the name of the game as hospitals undertake radical redesigns of their emergency departments. Prompted by HIPAA privacy requirements and using innovative flow patterns, moveable walls, larger patient rooms and evolving technology, the new ED can adapt quickly to handle fluctuating patient loads and potential terrorist attacks.
Baltimore↗