November 8, 2010
Canada lags international peers in its uptake of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in the health system. A collaborative leadership is needed to overcome existing barriers to ICT implementation and improve health system performance.
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November 4, 2010
The Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council has released a new white paper, Sustainable Operations in Healthcare; an Energy Management Program. Implementing a green team in a hospital can produce marked cost-savings. Hospitals consume more than twice as much energy per square-foot as an office building, resulting in very high utility costs.
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November 3, 2010
This article presents a framework for thinking about the key questions that need to be answered to develop new policy and program-relevant knowledge that can be used to make more informed decisions. It is a primer for administrators, policy makers and others about how to identify the knowledge they need to make decisions regarding new or existing programs.
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October 19, 2010
Emerging innovations in the delivery of health care, particularly in developing countries, offer insights on how to tackle its rising cost, estimated at $7 trillion a year globally.
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October 15, 2010
A new Markle survey found that most of the U.S. public and doctors believe patients should be able to download and keep copies of their personal health information.
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October 5, 2010
Hospital electronic health record applications are being developed and implemented far more slowly than was originally envisioned; the top-down, standardised approach has needed to evolve to admit more variation and greater local choice, which hospital trusts want in order to support local activity.
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October 4, 2010
The purpose of the Success Under Duress project was to identify the managerial strategies and practices associated with profitable financial performance among California safety net hospitals: what we call hospitals with a challenging payer mix (CPM hospitals).
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October 3, 2010
The Pursuing Perfection initiative was an eight-year demonstration program (2001 through 2008) funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in the US. Supported by technical assistance from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), the initiative’s goal was to learn if and how health care organizations could make dramatic improvements in performance across the organization, resulting in a considerably more efficient and effective health care system.
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