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Union Hospital in Terre Haute, Ind., entered into a development partnership with a software development company to develop state-of-the-art, intuitive technology that would make the nurses' jobs more efficient and optimize patient safety. The program is a workflow technology using touch screens in...
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Our organization needed a way to better manage materials in the nursing units' supply closets. According to Materials Management in Health Care magazine (April 2010), a hospital's inventory system can account for 40% of their total operating budget. Implementing an inventory control system properly...
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Inadequate glucose control can result in hospital-associated infections and other complications that can lead to increased lengths of stay and nonreimbursable readmissions within 30 days. By using Six Sigma methodologies to redesign processes, educating physicians, staff and patients, and embedding...
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In 2009, 1.4 million Americans were diagnosed with cancer. However daunting that number appears, healthcare providers have made significant gains in treating cancer with 70% of those newly diagnosed expected to survive at least five years.
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In 2010, Centene Corp. rolled out its Centelligence platform, a management solution that uses a combination of advanced analytics and algorithms to provide enterprise information capability across all communication channels. Through the use of this solution, Centene is able to identify its...
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Welcome to Modern Healthcare's third annual IT Case Study Contest, where you, the reader, have the opportunity to tell your peers about your innovative IT projects, how those projects are improving patient care and how you intend to seek federal funding for those projects.
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The Orthopedic Clinic Association's five offices located throughout Phoenix and the surrounding area continually received patient complaints about wait times for appointments and assistance via phone.
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The New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. is the largest municipal healthcare delivery network in the U.S. HHC's emergency departments see nearly 1 million visits a year and are consistently challenged by overcrowding and wait times that result from the high volume, limited beds, limited...
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The New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., the largest municipal healthcare organization in the country, is a $6.7 billion integrated healthcare delivery system serving 1.3 million of the 8.1 million New Yorkers and provides medical, mental health and substance-abuse treatment services...
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Matagorda Regional Medical Center is a hospital district licensed for 58 beds in the county seat of Matagorda County, Bay City, Texas. Matagorda County is a rural, medically underserved, health professional shortage area-designated community on the Gulf Coast region of Texas, approximately 90 miles...
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