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CommonWell Health Alliance continues to grow its EHR domain
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationCommonWell Health Alliance is beginning to gain a little traction more than two years since it was announced as a concept. Earlier this month, the organization announced that it had added five new members, "enhancing the association's nationwide footprint, share of the EHR marketplace and diversity across the care continuum."
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Fixing the gender gap in nursing pay
Keith Carlson Medical & Allied HealthcareFor decades in the United States, there has been keen awareness that women earn less than men in a wide range of industries. According to the Institute for Women's Policy Research, full-time female workers earned 78 cents on the dollar as compared to their male counterparts in 2013. So-called "pay parity" has long been on the minds of many stakeholders, but the rate of change in this regard has been woefully slow.
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Who said the road to EMR documentation compliance would be easy?
Barbara Aubry Healthcare AdministrationI am a registered nurse, but my official title now is regulatory analyst. Like many clinicians, I began my career in the hospital. Along the way, I veered from a clinical focus to regulatory compliance. I moved to case management, which led to quality assurance and utilization review. Here I was faced with the task of understanding healthcare documentation in a new way and determining if it was in compliance with myriad regulations.
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Millennials, Gen Xers leading change in healthcare over seniors, boomers
Scott E. Rupp Medical & Allied HealthcareMillennials and Gen Xers are a population segment harboring and bringing about advances in healthcare technology. They are also altering the delivery of healthcare and insurance, according to new research offered up by PNC Healthcare.
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Performance evaluations that employees and managers love
Hank Boyer Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementIf done effectively, both employees and their managers will look forward to the process and will be willing participants. The mentality moves from, "we have to do this" to "we get to do this." When the organization aligns around something as fundamental as an honest dialogue about performance, the future can be so much brighter. Here's how organizations can "fix" their performance evaluation process.
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Data is no less secure even as HIPAA enforcement is here
Lindy Benton Healthcare AdministrationThe headlines are endless and ever-growing: Healthcare data is at risk. Exposure is happening because a scourge of people worldwide is illegally trying to benefit from the information; because of improper protection of sensitive information; or because of some other sort of breach. However, despite continued efforts to address security loopholes across the sector, simply "taking action" to mitigate damage is not an effective strategy, and it won't work long term.
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Leveraging social technologies as healthcare business solutions
Christina Thielst Healthcare AdministrationLast year, a highly respectable group of individuals representing a diverse group of healthcare organizations contributed to a book published by HIMSS — "Applying Social Media Technologies in Healthcare Environments." The contributors represented large healthcare systems, statewide public health departments, community hospitals, clinics, physicians, researchers and a patient. However, the stories of innovation using social technologies to solve business challenges will also be appreciated by nontechies alike.
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4 effective ways to combat laissez-faire leadership
Betty Boyd Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementLeadership is a great responsibility, and one that should not be taken lightly. However, there are people within organizations who are leaders in title only. Here are four ways an organization can combat this type of "leadership."
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Experts: 2015 is the year of the healthcare breach
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationBreaches, breaches everywhere. It seems there's no shortage of news about security breaches and their effect on healthcare. In an effort to better paint the picture of breaches in healthcare, Software Advice recently published research focusing on how recent HIPAA breaches, like the cyberattacks at Anthem and Premera Blue Cross, have impacted U.S. patients' trust, treatment and retention.
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Promoting nurse resilience
Keith Carlson Medical & Allied HealthcareThe Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines resilience as "the ability to become strong, healthy, or successful again after something bad happens," or "the ability of something to return to its original shape after it has been pulled, stretched, pressed, bent, etc." Nurses regularly face situations where they are "stretched, pressed and bent," and they also frequently find themselves in situations where "something bad happens." Thus, we can readily draw the conclusion that resilience in nurses is a quality to be promoted and championed by nurse managers and leaders throughout the profession.
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