Healthcare Strategic Management articles from January 2002

Healthcare Strategic Management archives from January 2002

Market memo: what should you manage: customers, relationships or accounts?(health care industry)
January 1, 2002... In addition to the traditional necessities of managing operations, health care organization (HCO) executives are increasingly being told that they must also manage customers as assets, and manage relationships with stakeholders. Given the...

U.S. needs community rates for health risks.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Health policy institutes are being formed and revived all over the country by large employers who are enraged by soaring health care insurance premiums. They all want to figure out how to contain health care costs, which means containing...

Headline correction.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2002... The headline on the page one Market Memo in the December 2001 issue, which read, "Heart hospitals should have physician equity" was incorrect. The headline of the article should have read, "Should heart hospitals have physician equity?" We...

Critical care nursing will be taught over the Internet to increase supply of ICU nurses. (Strategic Notes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Indiana's largest healthcare network and the state's largest nursing school are teaming up to use technology to increase the number of nurses caring for the growing population of acutely ill patients. Clarian Health Partners, the Indiana...

Ambulance crews use Palm handhelds to collect patient data at emergency scenes. (Strategic Notes).(handheld computers in use in emergency medicine)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Ambulance and Life Flight helicopter crews with Geisinger Health Systems in Danville, Pa., use Palm[TM] handheld computers to collect data at emergency scenes more efficiently and provide more comprehensive information to doctors and nurses...

McDermott introduces HIPAA implementation product for hospitals and other providers. (Strategic Notes).(McDermott, Will & Emery offers HIPAA compliance package)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... McDermott, Will & Emery's international health care practice has introduced HIPAA PRIVACY SOLUTIONS, a comprehensive implementation product designed to help businesses comply with the complex HIPAA privacy regulations issued by the U.S. Dept....

Software that will help increase quality and reduce medical errors being developed for the government. (Strategic Notes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... IDX Systems Corp. a provider of health care information technology, said that it will lead the development of software that will improve quality and reduce medical errors in a $9.2 million project awarded by the U.S Commerce Dept.'s National...

Young people use the Internet to find health information; 25% get a lot of information online. (Statistical Notes).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Two out of three young people (68%) have used the Internet to search for health information, and one in four says they get "a lot" of health information online, according to a national survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The survey also...

More workers used drugs in the first half of 2001 than a year ago, but less than five years ago. (Statistical Notes).(drug testing index reported by Quest Diagnostics)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Drug use in the general U.S. workforce increased in the first half of 2001, according to the semi-annual Drug Testing Index released by Quest Diagnostics Inc. The positivity rate for the general U.S. workforce, which is the number of...

The Drug Testing Index 2001 Quest Diagnostics Incorporated.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... The Drug Testing Index 2001 Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. All rights reserved. Annual Positivity Rates (For Combined U.S. Workforce) (More than 3 million tests from January to June 2001 Year Drug Positive Rate...

University HealthSystem Consortium will continue use of Solucient's financial databases. (Statistical Notes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), Oakbrook, Ill., and Solucient, Evanston, Ill., have extended their strategic partnership, which provides Solucient's operational and financial performance benchmarking to the alliance's member...

29 infertility clinics do not publish treatment success rates or disclose numbers, types of cases. (Statistical Notes).(National Infertility Association report)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... RESOLVE, The National Infertility Association, said that 29 infertility clinics did not provide data on their treatment success rates, including information on the number and type of procedures performed, the number of pregnancies achieved,...

Health care industry is prepared to comply with HIPAA privacy regulations. (Statistical Notes).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... The health care industry appears to have taken the organizational steps necessary to comply with the HIPAA privacy rule, according to a survey conducted by the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) with an unrestricted educational grant...

70% of school children say they don't comply with safety guidelines. (Statistical Notes).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Responses from 7,500 school children show that two-thirds of American children do not follow the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recommended nutritional guidelines and nearly 70% do not comply with basic personal safety guidelines that...

2000 U.S. census data shows population shifts as high as 40%; 46% more American Indians. (Database Notes).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... The 2000 U.S. census data, now integrated in the health care planning tools from Solucient, shows population shifts as high as 40% since 1990, which is expected to have a profound impact on disease prevalence and the way hospitals plan to...

MD OnLine launches subscription services for clinical image database and matching software. (Database Notes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... MD OnLine (MDOL) announced that it has begun subscription service for their vast database of validated clinical images and matching software called ImageMatch[TM]. It is a quick and easy real time reference tool that aims to help physicians...

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young restructures its hospital and health care consulting practices. (Database Notes).(forms CGE and Y Health)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, one of the largest management and IT consulting firms in the world, announced the formation of CGE&Y Health--an expanded health practice that more closely links the expertise of its Health and Managed Care sector with...

AMA changes policy on advocating better work hours for medical residents. (Database Notes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The American Medical Assn. House of Delegates last month changed its long-standing policy on the work environment for resident physicians, allowing much broader advocacy on their behalf to improve patient and resident safety. The new...

Hip implant prices are headed higher even though there are more competitors in the market. (Worth Reading).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... As materials managers predicted at the end of 2000, hip implant prices rose steadily during 2001, with only long-term contracts holding them down at some hospitals, reports the January 2002 issue of Hospital Materials Management. Expect...

Nebraska healthcare system successfully rebrands as `Alegent Health'. (Worth Reading).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... A year-old rebranding strategy has successfully focused consumer perception of Omaha, Neb.-based Alegent Health, reports Profiles in Healthcare Marketing. Work on the branding effort was launched as Alegent Health, an integrated health...

Culture shapes how individuals make meaning out of illness, suffering and dying. (Worth Reading).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Many hospital strategists are struggling to understand how they can appeal to the many racial, ethnic and religious groups within their service areas. This is a particularly difficult issue for clinicians, counselors and other hospital staffs...

Integration's best performers-seven habits of successful health care systems. (Integrated Systems).(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Over the past 10 years there has been a rapid consolidation of health care providers in many markets throughout the country and the related development of integrated health care delivery systems. In an effort to measure the evolution of these...

HealthSouth begins building digital hospital. (Integrated Systems).(in Birmingham, Alabama)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... HealthSouth Corp., Birmingham, Ala., broke ground last month on HealthSouth Medical Center, the first digital hospital to be built by the company. It will replace the current HealthSouth Medical Center in Birmingham. The project, which was...