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Richard Haugh
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Ahead of the pack.
Wisconsin is emerging as a national model for private-sector initiatives to meet demands for information on health care costs and quality.
Technology. Protecting IT.
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Fraud & abuse. Cyber sleuths.
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A rural crossroad.
The critical access hospital program is one of the few positive things for hospitals to come out of the 1997 Balanced Budget Act. It has meant salvation for the nearly 1,200 hospitals that have received the designation, and enables them to invest in facility upgrades, new equipment and additional staff. But a revamped Medicare managed care initiative threatens their payments and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Medicare Payment Advisory Program are taking a hard look at the program's costs. Some observers fear changes could be proposed that would weaken the CAH program.
Facilities. On shaky ground.
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Management. Plan. Replan. Plan again.
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Banking on privacy. Hospitals must protect patient information--and their own liability--as banks balk at HIPAA.
Thanks to HIPAA, banks stand to earn billions of dollars in new business by processing electronic claims for health care providers and payers. And the health care industry could realize $35 billion a year in efficiency gains and cost savings. But overshadowing it all is the question of how protected patient information will be--and how liable hospitals will be for any breach of that information by their business partners.
Management. E-trustees.
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ACE units take a wholistic, team approach to meet the needs of an aging America. A fresh model for gerontology.
Even in their senior years, baby boomers will pose an enormous challenge to hospitals, which must find new ways to provide comprehensive, quality geriatric care. A number of hospitals have established ACE units, which take a wholistic, team approach to treating older patients, and appear to improve outcomes, satisfaction and maybe the bottom line.
Technology. Beyond bar codes.
Just as the Food and Drug Administration orders the use of bar codes on most prescription drugs and blood products meant for transfusion, there is a push for an even more potent technology--radio frequency identification.
The patient room.
Of all the advances that hospitals are making in the delivery of care, nowhere is the impact felt more drastically than in the patient room. Even as room decor grows cozier and more home-like, dazzling new technology is bringing the future directly to the bedside, giving clinicians the power to monitor patients more carefully and giving patients more control over their own experience. Creating flexible, comforting rooms that can accommodate ever-changing technology, that encourage loved ones to spend more time with patients, and that allow staff to work more efficiently is a challenge for hospital planners, one that they are confronting with ingenuity and finesse.
Finance. Investing in growth.
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Supply management. Warehouses return.
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Cost drivers. Credit.
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A true picture of what ails your emergency department.
Relying on shaky assumptions about the causes of overcrowding in your ED can lead to expensive and ineffective solutions, say proponents of simulation modeling. Sophisticated simulation gives users a realistic view of what's happening in the ED and other departments to pinpoint problems and indicate where real improvements can be made.