C-suite: Key Challenges in Coming Year
Healthcare executives say staffing shortages and rising prescription drug costs are among the leading challenges they have to contend with in... Read more
Our Top Management & Leadership Tips for 2017
HealthManagement.org publishes the latest on cutting edge practice in healthcare management across our Imaging, Admin, IT and Cardiology... Read more
Senate Committee Wants Action on Concurrent Surgeries
The U.S. healthcare sector is urged to address two major concerns related to the practice of overlapping surgeries: patient safety and improper... Read more
How to Improve Revenue Collection
Consumers now pay a greater share of their health insurance coverage out-of-pocket mainly for two reasons: higher deductibles and employers... Read more
Want to Develop Diversity? Call in the Experts
Inequalities persist in the workplace. In a healthcare setting, such disparities reduce access to care, keep minority workers in poverty,... Read more
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Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions – Making Waves in 2020
During the past decade, healthcare systems have been expanding their avenues to serve countries around the globe, breaking free from conventional norms. Today, these organisations are on the lookout for well-planned strategies to accelerate the growth patterns and increase cost efficiency. The key to meet these goals necessitates merger and acquisition (M&A)... Read more
COVID-19 Superheroes
It is five in the morning as a healthcare worker gets out of bed. Let us call her Emma. She is self-isolated from the rest of the family in her own home. It has been months since she hugged her children and her husband. She gets ready and heads out to work. It is barely seven in the morning when she begins her shift – one of many dozens she... Read more
My COVID-19 Superhero
My COVID-19 Superhero is my sister, Loretta Bowen. We are a family of eight children; our father has passed and our mother is 85. Elaine Rohr has Parkinson’s disease and over the last few years has gotten worse. She is no longer able to cook or write and it is frustrating for her to have such limitations in her activity of daily living.... Read more
White Papers and Case Studies
Spotlight On: Sutter Health Fights Pneumonia One Toothbrush at a Time
2020 23 Apr
Pneumonia can be deadly in a hospital setting. Two main factors contribute to the approximately 20 percent mortality rate of this healthcare-associated infection (HAI). First, whatever condition brought the patient to the hospital in the first place has likely weakened them, making the patient more vulnerable to the illness. Plus, the germs that patients... Read more
Spotlight On: Inova Fairfax Medical Campus Reduces CLABSI with APSS #2
2020 23 Apr
HAIs are costly both in terms of harm/mortality and cost. Close attention to aseptic practices and monitoring patients can greatly reduce the incidence of these infections. Central Line-Associated Bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are the most costly type of hospital-acquired infections, both in terms of morbidity and mortality, and financial... Read more
Evaluation of the Microbial Tightness of Mini-Spike® 2 Chemo V - A Closed System Transfer Device
2019 08 Aug
In vitro study validating the microbial barrier function by means of airborne contamination Jürgen Gebel, Sapuna Kuriakose, Barbara Grüter, Martin Exner; University of Bonn Hospital, Institute for Hygiene and Public Health, Germany BACKGROUND Nosocomial infections pose a major problem in the healthcare system because they contribute... Read more
From Our Journals
‘The Death of Cancer’ - The Patient Perspective
Summary: Cancer affects everybody's life at some point. ‘The Death... Read more
Captivate staff with animation
Explainer videos as a communication tool. Whether you want to teach... Read more
Good past—better future?
From massive sedation in the past, through current sedation practice... Read more
Redesigning Emergency Ambulatory Care with Point-of-Care Testing: Reduced Costs and Length of Stay
Many patients presenting to the hospital emergency department do not... Read more
Designing a Hospital Cardiology Outreach Service
The cardiology team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundat Read more
Advances in Sepsis Research – New Tools Against One of the Oldest Diseases?
Sepsis and septic shock are the leading causes of death in the ICU. With... Read more