You Only Need to Do 4 Things to Be a Great Leader, Study Finds

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Written by Lindsey Dunn (Twitter | Google+)  | May 13, 2014, Becker’s Hospital Review   Inclusive leadership is used to describe leaders who make employees feel included in and aligned with their organization, its vision and goals. Inclusive leadership is important because employees who feel included are more innovative and more likely to go above… Read more »

4 Ways Clinical Analytics Help Sustain a Successful ACO Model

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Written by Ayla Ellison (Twitter | Google+)  | May 27, 2014, Becker’s Hospital Review   From population health management to identifying gaps in care, clinical analytics play a vital role in accountable care. Dave Caldwell, executive vice president at Campbell, Calif-based Certify Data Systems, a subsidiary of Humana, provides fourways clinical analytics can be used… Read more »

Are hospital mergers destined to fail?

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May 5, 2014 | By Ilene MacDonald, Fierce Healthcare   James Orlikoff: History shows most partnerships don’t reduce costs or improve care Although hospitals and health systems continue to forge ahead with mergers and acquisitions in an effort to reduce costs and improve care, if history is an indicator, most of these partnerships will fail,… Read more »

4 Flawed State-Based Exchanges Cost $474M in Federal Funds

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Written by Helen Adamopoulos (Twitter | Google+)  | May 12, 2014, Becker’s Hospital Review   The federal government spent a total of $474 million on the development of four state-based health insurance exchanges that floundered because of technical problems, according to a Politico report. Massachusetts spent $57 million on the Massachusetts Health Connector, which has… Read more »

Rural Vs. Urban Patient Care: 8 Findings

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Written by Akanksha Jayanthi (Twitter | Google+)  | April 25, 2014, Becker’s Hospital Review   In 2010, 17 percent of the nation’s population lived in rural areas. Rural hospitals saw 4.1 million inpatients, compared to urban hospitals that saw 31 million inpatients, according to a National Center for Health Statistics report. Here are eight more… Read more »

5 Things to Know About Rural Hospitals and Financial Pressures

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Written by Helen Adamopoulos (Twitter | Google+)  | May 12, 2014, Becker’s Hospital Review   Shrinking government funding, the increasing cost of providing care and other industry shifts have put a growing amount of pressure on rural hospitals’ finances, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Here are five key things to know… Read more »

5 Steps For Protecting Patient Data When Dealing With Vendors

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Written by Ayla Ellison (Twitter | Google+)  | May 12, 2014, Becker’s Hospital Review   In a May 7 webinar provided by eHealth Initiative and sponsored by PwC, experts from PwC and Independence Blue Cross discussed protecting patient information and data security measures to utilize when dealing with third-party vendors and business associates. The webinar… Read more »

Conquering the doctor shortage

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Lisa Bernard-Kuhn, The Cincinnati Enquirer, February 8, 2014 CINCINNATI — Waiting weeks to see a doctor. Scrambling to find one. Foregoing care altogether. Is this our future? America already doesn’t have enough doctors, with a shortage of 45,000 forecast by 2020. Exacerbating the shortage: Millions of people have new access to health coverage under the Affordable… Read more »

Report: Staff engagement key to patient experience

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January 17, 2014 | By Katie Sullivan, Fierce Healthcare Healthcare providers must encourage employee engagement if they want to improve patient care, according to a new report from the Point of Care Foundation in the United Kingdom.  “Staff engagement is a function of good management and teamwork, staff satisfaction and staff health and wellbeing. These are, in… Read more »

Former Apple CEO backs virtual doctor’s office to create the ‘consumer era’ of medicine

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January 22, 2014 3:01 PM, Christina Farr, Venture Beat For the past decade, former Apple chief executive John Sculley has been taking on the problem of reforming health care through new technologies. And now that the Obamacare rollout is in full effect, Sculley is betting on the Sunrise, Fla.-based MDLive to bring the practice of medicine into… Read more »