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As laboratories become increasingly market-driven lab managers and IT professionals are looking for ways IT can help them do more with less--and do it more efficiently and faster--to help ensure their survival.
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New prospective payment and outcomes assessment requirements--plus the ever-present need to run a business efficiently--are shaping home care information technology solutions that emphasize data entry at the point of care.
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As recently as five years ago, home care providers who wanted to use information strategically had little choice but to build their own point-of-care applications. Today, as the number of home health agencies grows, so do the number of home health information systems.
Cut cost, cut cost, cut cost has been the hospital's mantra for at least a decade. And while insurers, HMOs and doctors have traditionally pressed for hospitals to control their costs, they have only recently begun to question their own habits. Here, then, are a set of four cost-effective ideas--one for hospitals, one for insurers, one for HMOs, and one for physicians. They are jumping-off points, really, something to recharge your cost-cutting creativity. You may have tried these, you may be considering them, or you may not have thought of them. No matter. Clear your mind and consider the possibilities.
As more and more hospitals move to form partnerships with physicians, the executives working to create these new relationships are learning that to really be equal partners takes more than simply installing a senior doctor into a senior executive slot. It takes vision, guts, patience, and commitment. Getting these new ventures to work to everyone's benefit isn't easy, but ultimately it's worth it. Find out what the field's cutting-edge executives have to say about their best strategies to ensure a peaceful--and profitable--partnership.
Given the prominence that managed care will have in the future U.S. healthcare system, financial managers who want to advance their careers must take steps to hone their managed care knowledge and skills, become accomplished managed care strategists, and identify opportunities to gain expertise in the managed care field. Healthcare Financial Management interviewed a number of managed care experts to obtain their views on how healthcare financial managers can prepare for a career in managed care organizations. The experts agree that one of the keys to future success lies in financial managers' willingness to assume more and different types of responsibility than before as the shift to managed care continues.
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