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Editorial-Small hospital's nursing peer review helps staff embrace culture of safety
Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence, a key component of the AHA's health reform strategies, encourages and promotes hospital-led improvements in care that are based on best practices and can be replicated across the field. On a recurring basis, AHA News spo...
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Editorial-By setting too high a bar, EHR rules would hinder IT adoption, says AHA
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposes too high a bar for achieving 'meaningful use' of electronic health records (EHR) and an unrealistically short transition time that will "severely limit hospitals' ability to access...
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Editorial-Burgess: CMS needs to 'rethink' its 'meaningful use' regulations
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) needs to "rethink" its definition of a "meaningful user" of electronic health records (EHR) and come up with a plan that gives hospitals "a good deal more flexibility" and time to qualify for the incen...
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Editorial-AHA: Unrealistic IT deadlines will do more harm than help
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Dec. 30 released a proposed rule defining "meaningful use" of electronic health records (EHR). How CMS defines a meaningful user will determine which hospitals and physician qualify for ...
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Courage and Compassion in the Future of Health Care
Joe Flower That was quite a year, that 2009. Wasn't it? Across the industry, as we move into spring 2010, the strongest desire I hear is to get back to some kind of "business as usual," to breathe a big sigh of relief that we are past...
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The Benefits of Conflict
Cary Gutbezahl, M.D. You have to avoid conflict within your organization to get things done. That's what most of us are used to. We have learned to fight for issues that are important to us, but avoid getting involved in issues that aren't. And...
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The New Privacy Norm
So I had this great idea of making my first column in the '10s about the Oughts. I was going to write an extremely witty—and insightful—commentary about the fact that we started the last decade worried about a looming IT catastrophe and finishe...
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Conferences
Conferences February •The SECAD 2010 conference will be held Feb. 21-24 in Nashville, Tenn. Visit www.secad10.com. •The Vanderbilt Executive Development Institute program, Executive Leadership, will be held Feb. 22-24 in Nashville, Tenn. Visi...
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Cultural Transformation: The Buck Starts with the Board
The focus on culture in health care is everywhere: a culture of quality, a just culture, cultural transformation, a transparent culture, a punitive culture, a high-reliability culture and so on. As health care approaches the mother of all inflection point...
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Digging Out
Recent snowfalls in Chicago have turned my morning walk to the train into an obstacle course demanding Olympic-level athleticism to remain upright. I bump down my slippery front steps, then careen down the block on the ice rink formerly known as my sidewa...
