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Moore (Okla.) Medical Center, a satellite site of Norman (Okla.) Regional Health System, took a direct hit from the terrible tornado that killed 24 people and injured 377 others May 20. It will most likely never open its doors again. However, as Modern Healthcare reported, the medical center had...
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Providers realize that reimbursement for healthcare delivery is changing. The economic and cultural forces now buttressing accountable care and value-based healthcare delivery have never been stronger.
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We are all coming to grips with the reality that healthcare IT staffing and recruitment is a vexing problem. The executive team at Holy Spirit Health System—particularly the human resources vice president and chief financial officer—now tacitly accepts that I cannot fill vacancies and...
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Singer Emmylou Harris once noted that she learned to love making music in living rooms. But as her record-making career advanced, things got more technical with the control room emphasizing making things perfect. “We've lost the living room,” she complained. “The living room has...
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Here in Iowa, we like to get going early. That's particularly the case with my hospital.We started our EHR journey in 2004.
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Healthcare organizations have a lot to learn from health information exchanges.
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At the start of every new year, we're bombarded with resolutions and predictions of what will happen in the next 12 months. Almost every industry in 2013 is predicted to place a major emphasis on the use of tools that provide analytics, business intelligence, decision support or some other...
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"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”—Unknown
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Last month, our hospital attested for Stage 1 meaningful-use incentives. Years of work, requiring the focus and determination of the entire organization, were integral to meeting this big milestone.
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Our organization has an informal climbing team made up of administrators and clinicians who tackle a couple of summits each year. We have lofty aspirations—the ultimate goal is to climb six of the "Seven Summits." Self-funded, the team's previous climbs have included Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount...
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