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Wise, dedicated, passionate and competitive--all words that accurately describe Merrill Goozner who in 2012 raised the bar for healthcare journalism when he took over the helm at Modern Healthcare.
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Pessoal Administrativo , Mobilidade Ocupacional , Jornalismo , Atenção à Saúde , Cobertura do Seguro , Estados UnidosRESUMO
The system of caring for people-the chronically ill, the elderly or even the fitness buff-is reactive, expensive and cumbersome. But a new paradigm of care, called connected health, promises to reduce costs and improve quality by working with patients proactively. How? Patients monitor their own health using electronic devices outside of the provider setting. As a result, the number of visits to both physician offices and inpatient hospital units drop.
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Doença Crônica/terapia , Relações Médico-Paciente , Autocuidado/instrumentação , Telemedicina/instrumentação , Comportamento Cooperativo , Gerenciamento Clínico , Eficiência Organizacional , Humanos , Sistemas Computadorizados de Registros Médicos , Autocuidado/tendências , Telemetria/instrumentação , Estados UnidosRESUMO
Though various health organizations may define and approach quality differently, the common denominator is the patient's perspective, experience and outcome. Quality issues should be an important part of health system executives' agenda. Successful quality programs have a number of key ingredients, including decision-reporting tools and business analytics information--which depend on robust information reporting and a system-wide electronic medical record--as well as highly motivated employees and physicians. In this installment of Straight Talk, representatives from two health systems--Kaiser Permanente and Clarian Health Partners--discuss their quality initiatives.
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Administração de Serviços de Saúde/normas , Gestão da Qualidade Total/métodos , Humanos , Liderança , Satisfação do Paciente , Indicadores de Qualidade em Assistência à Saúde , Estados UnidosAssuntos
Tomada de Decisões Gerenciais , Equipamentos e Provisões , Administradores Hospitalares/psicologia , Relações Hospital-Médico , Administração de Materiais no Hospital/organização & administração , Corpo Clínico Hospitalar/psicologia , Equipamentos e Provisões/economia , Equipamentos e Provisões/normas , Equipamentos e Provisões/provisão & distribuição , Custos Hospitalares , Comunicação Interdisciplinar , Serviço Hospitalar de Compras/organização & administração , Estados UnidosRESUMO
Not-for-profit health systems are under the public microscope. Sen. Charles Grassley, (D-Iowa) chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has been critical of the charity care and billing practices of not-for-profit health systems, and vows to introduce legislation to correct abuses throughout the tax-exempt sector. The House has studied the issue as well. Not-for-profit health systems also have been accused in hundreds of lawsuits of overcharging uninsured patients and aggressively pursuing debt collection. In this installment of Straight Talk, we explore the issues surrounding tax-exempt status and how health systems should publicize their charitable work. Modern Healthcare and PricewaterhouseCoopers present Straight Talk. The session on charity care and tax-exempt status was held on October 4, 2005 at Modern Healthcare's Chicago headquarters. Fawn Lopez, publisher of Modern Healthcare, was the moderator.
