Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 8am pacific | 10 am central | 11am eastern
Discover how hospitals are embracing an innovative, healthcare-focused technology that determines not only location, but status, movement and overall contextual awareness of medical devices, patients and staff. This new “sensor-network” based approach touches all areas of the hospital enterprise and transforms patient flow and patient care through optimal resource management.MORE INFO »
Join us for a live 60 minute webinar to discuss the increasingly popular concept of “medical homes.” This patient-centered model has been generating a lot of attention because of its positive impact on healthcare finances and patient outcomes.MORE INFO »
Attend this webinar to examine and explore the term “meaningful use“ and to learn how technologies beyond Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) can provide even greater advances in improving the quality, efficiency, and safety of health care in the United States.MORE INFO »
As hospitals’ construction budgets continue to be frozen, maximizing bed capacity is critical to handle growing patient volumes. Yet solving patient flow and overcrowding issues is often addressed at a department level. Patient flow improvements, however, require a multi-disciplinary approach with strong executive endorsement.MORE INFO »
The double-edged sword of the deepening recession and the meltdown of the financial and credit markets, combined with the already difficult economics of healthcare delivery, has created an unprecedented challenge to the financial stability, even financial viability, of most hospitals and health systems.MORE INFO »
The House and Senate bills that would overhaul the nation's $2.5 trillion healthcare system may have stalled, but the pressure to control costs, expand access and improve quality continues to build in the nation's capital. The government said healthcare's share of the gross domestic product in 2009 grew at its fastest rate in 50 years, and healthcare spending will nearly double by 2019.MORE INFO »
The biotechnology industry in the U.S. raised a record $55 billion in 2009 through public and private partnerships and financing. But how much of that money ultimately will result in drugs and other medical therapies used by hospitals, physicians and other practitioners to treat patients?MORE INFO »
The federal government is offering as much as $34 billion in financial assistance to healthcare providers that buy, implement and use information technology in a manner consistent with the way the government wants it to be used. The government explained what it wants in nearly 700 pages of proposed regulations issued earlier this month.MORE INFO »
The Institute of Medicine's 1999 report, “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” sent shock waves throughout the healthcare industry with its estimate that about 98,000 patients die annually because of preventable medical errors. The findings immediately cast a shadow on the high-quality reputation of American healthcare.MORE INFO »
Attend this one-hour webinar and you'll hear from three winners of Modern Healthcare's inaugural IT Case Study Contest. Learn about the innovative IT projects they're implementing to improve patient care and to obtain federal funding for those projects.MORE INFO »
Stress on hospital balance sheets from the nation's ongoing recession and credit upheaval has intensified efforts to improve operating performance. Meanwhile, the economic downturn stands to accelerate the already growing number of U.S. households struggling to pay medical bills.MORE INFO »
When the outbreak of the H1N1 virus -- commonly known as the swine flu -- started dominating the headlines, healthcare providers and public health agencies were quickly confronted not only with a confused and fearful patient population, but logistical, legal and operational issues as well. Get answers to your questions at this Modern Healthcare webinar.MORE INFO »
Major differences exist between the healthcare information technology incentives for prospective-payment system, or PPS, hospitals and critical-access hospitals under the economic stimulus package known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.MORE INFO »
Watch a recording of Modern Healthcare's editorial webinar on the future of investor-owned hospitals to hear a point/counterpoint discussion of the challenges facing the industry.MORE INFO »
