Healthcare Strategic Management articles from January 2001

Healthcare Strategic Management archives from January 2001

Market Memo: Developing cost-effective, productive physician relations.(tips for managing a physicians clinic)
January 1, 2001... As hospitals and health systems moved into the new millennium, one of the big challenges they brought with them from the 1990s was how to deal with physicians harmoniously, productively and cost effectively. While management teams at some...

Bush, Congress offer opportunities, risks.(possible inpact of election 2000 on government health services and health care industry)
January 1, 2001... President-elect George W. Bush and his evenly divided Congress offer both opportunities and risks to hospitals. The biggest opportunity is for some stability, because not much will get through Congress during the next two years. The biggest...

Will Internet cure administrative nightmares? Forget about it, health care strategist says.(J.D. Kleinke)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Among all of the optimism about what the Internet can do to improve health care administrative efficiency, at least one health care information technology strategist is doubtful. Hospitals and health systems hoping the Internet might be...

Hospital executives need to make HR their top priority to deal with worker shortages.(human resources)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Hospital executives will need to move human resources to the top of their priority lists if they hope to deal with increasingly worsening health care personnel shortages, according to Ted Elliott, CEO of JobScience, an online health care...

Hospitals with big market share could face Microsoft-type antitrust challenge.(hospitals with strong market share must watch out for antitrust law)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Hospitals that have strong market share have a number of advantages--a more equal bargaining position with managed care plans and increased opportunities to improve efficiencies, for example--but they also may face legal challenges similar to...

New VA strategy offers opportunities for hospitals needing more space.(declining use of veterans' hospitals may make room for non-veteran patients)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Some hospitals and health systems needing more space for operations may find an attractive partner in the federal Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), according to Chicago-based health care consultant Tiber Group. Compared to the 1960s, VA...

Pew study data indicate trusted local hospital Web sites may have advantage.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Hospitals and health systems should be encouraged by information in a new study conducted by Pew Internet & American Life Project showing that 82% of Americans with Internet access are concerned about getting health information from unreliable...

Need to share patient records drives electronic health records, survey finds.(survey of health care industry)(Brief Article)(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... The need to improve the ability to share patient record information among health care providers is the main clinical factor driving the need for electronic health record (EHR) records, according to a recent survey of health care professionals...

Hospital inpatient costs only small part of 8.3% jump in health care premiums in 2000.(Center for Studying Health System Change)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... After a period of low increases between 1994 and 1998, health care insurance premiums jumped 8.3% in the first three months of 2000, with much of the increase due to drug costs, according to a new study from the Center for Studying Health...

Web, intranet development company offers guide on how to develop successful sites.(MedSeek Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... A new, free, 40-page guide that provides recommended procedures for developing successful Web and intranet sites is now available from MedSeek, a Solvang, Calif., Web site and intranet development company. "The Production Management Guide...

HIPAA just another reasons why hospitals must protect their confidential data.(Healht Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of of 1996)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The growing use of Internet technologies by health care organizations is making confidential data increasingly vulnerable to security breaches, says Mark Higgins, director of health care strategy at RIPTech Inc., an Alexandria, Va., information...

Anticipating big growth, CyberPlus launches emergency department systems subsidiary.(Cyberplus Corp. forms EmSTAT Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Anticipating an explosion in emergency department (ED) business because of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the advent of Medicare outpatient prospective payment system Ambulatory Payment Classifications...

Tips for improving physician practices included in new Web site.(WPI Communications Inc. offers MDPracticeBuilder.com)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Health systems looking for free and easy-to-read tips on how to improve physician practice businesses may want to visit a new Web site being rolled out by WPI communications Inc., a Springfield, N.J., publisher of physician practice-building...

AMCs need to develop capacity for innovation, Commonwealth Fund report says.(challenges that academic medical centers face)
January 1, 2001... Academic medical centers (AMCs) face both financial and managerial challenges in the new health care marketplace and will need to become much more self-critical and open than they have been in the past if they want to develop a capacity for...

Health care leaders no longer can afford to wing it when it comes to finance.(Kenneth Kaufman's "Finance in Brief: Six Key Concepts for Healthcare Leaders")(Review)
January 1, 2001... Most hospital executives would probably prefer to leave financial management to their chief financial officers. But positive bottom lines are hard to come by these days and it has become imperative that all hospital leaders understand and...

After trend of IDS integration, some organizations have chosen to disintegrate.(Deloitte and Touche survey questions hospital chief executive officers about the disintegration of newly integrated health delivery systems)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... It's not a major trend, and probably never will be, but a growing number of newly integrated delivery systems are disintegrating. Recent statistics show a likely reason for the trend: few of those hospitals merged in 1999 were able to...

Marketing vs. the 800-pound gorilla.(Community Medical Centers)
January 1, 2001... There are innumerable markets where an 800-pound gorilla dominates, making it tough for the little guys sharing the same market to be noticed and preserve their own preference and market shares. When the big guys have and use the big guns, what...

Integrated systems increase market share, Managed Care Digest Series[TM] data show.(integrated hospital systems)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Are integrated system hospitals more capable of capturing market share than other hospitals? New data from Aventis Pharmaceuticals Managed Care Trends Digest 2000 indicate that could be the case. The Digest identified 604 hospitals and...

Hospitals can reduce costs, improve quality by adopting proven risk management guides.(St. Paul Companies Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Knowing up front what medical conditions and treatment situations are most likely to result in medical errors or problems--and consequent lawsuits--is helping hospitals improve quality of care and save lots of money. One company helping...