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Like most doctors, I am an overachiever and I have always been a “good” student. Throughout my education, I perfected the art of making my teachers happy. But now, as a patient with multiple sclerosis, I find myself in an unfamiliar role. I am deliberately choosing to ignore my doctor's...
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The federal government has targeted billions of dollars of savings for the Medicare program by reducing the number of preventable readmissions.Financial penalties to hospitals with excessive readmission rates begin Oct. 1.
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Research published July 2 by our organization, Extending the Cure, shows a troubling, seasonal rise in antibiotic resistance—one that adds urgency to hospital efforts to combat the problem of resistance and resistant infections that can spread...
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While change has been an ever-present force in our nation's healthcare system, what we are seeing now is a monumental transformation in the way care will be provided in the future. It's an issue that is being discussed far and wide, from conversations around the dinner table to election-year...
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It’s one of those secrets you normally don’t learn in nursing school: “Don’t go to the hospital in July.” That’s the month when medical residents, newly graduated from medical school, start learning how to be doctors, and they learn by taking care of patients.
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Over the past 20 years, the healthcare sector and its customers have awakened to the need to improve quality and have begun to design systems to deliver care more safely, systematically and reliably.
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When it comes to basic R&D, trying to get complex science-based projects off the ground, what's the most effective and efficient approach—through the private sector or the public sector?
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You have just received the quarterly statistics, and the numbers aren't any better. Your number of critical sentinel events hasn't dropped, central-line infections still remain high, medication errors are still occurring at an unacceptable rate, and, most important, staffers are frustrated and...
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It sure looks as if the nation is headed in the wrong direction. While that's not intended as a blanket political statement, opinion polls would show strong arguments for and against such a position.
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Our industry has reached its turning point. We're facing many challenges, but an equal number of opportunities. If administrators and physicians direct their collective focus on weaving together innovations in healthcare delivery, technology and medicine, we can create the healthcare system of the...
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