Healthcare Strategic Management articles from March 2002

Healthcare Strategic Management archives from March 2002

Market memo: is your cardiovascular program meeting goals?(evaluating cardiovascular services)
March 1, 2002... In today's highly competitive health care market with cardiovascular services comprising as much as 40% of acute care revenues, it makes sense to take a critical look at that service line to see where it stands and where it is going. All...

How will hospitals choose auditors?(in the wake of the Enron/Arthur Andersen scandal)
March 1, 2002... The Big Five accounting firms and their audit and consulting clients, including health care systems, will be paying a high price for the Arthur Andersen and Enron calamity. Auditors of publicly owned companies and, probably, large...

Indiana Heart Hospital will be all digital hospital without paper records. (Strategic Notes).
March 1, 2002... The Indiana Heart Hospital, a $60 million, 210,000-square-foot facility, will be built from the ground up to deliver a new level of care for cardiovascular disease by eliminating paper and film-based medical records. The hospital will function...

Ambulatory care and freestanding surgery centers likely to do more cosmetic surgery. (Strategic Notes).(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
March 1, 2002... Hospitals with ambulatory surgery centers are gearing up for more cosmetic surgery business, because the public is increasingly ready to have the surgery. While a big percentage of cosmetic surgery is done in physicians' offices, certain...

Infant mortality rates are proxies for use of neonatal intensive care units in hospitals. (Statistical Notes).(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2002... Neonatal intensive care units (NICU) of hospitals are more likely to see the newborns of teenagers and older mothers. And they are more likely to see the newborns of blacks, American Indians, Puerto Ricans and Hawaiians as well as twins,...

Clinical journals' Web sites offer a wealth of data to hospital planners and strategists. (Database Notes).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Studies published in leading clinical journals often include data that is useful to hospital and health care system planners, and more and more, those articles are readily available on the Internet. Thus, when a brief summary of such an...

Messenger models still are antitrust problems for providers. (Antitrust).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Considerable attention and publicity has surrounded the recent proposed consent agreement between the Federation of Physicians and Dentists ("Federation") and the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ"). The settlement agreement...

Retention of highly productive personnel now at crisis proportions. (Human Resource Planning).(for hospitals)(Industry Overview)
March 1, 2002... Hospital administrators are facing a crisis of escalating proportions: how to retain the most productive members of their staffs during a time of high turnover. Studies in recent years have shown the turnover rate among health care employees is...