September 15, 2010 - 8am pacific | 10am central | 11am eastern
Attend this 60 minute webinar to learn cutting-edge strategies on how to deal with the implications of healthcare reform. Join industry experts and leading CEOs as they share their visions, initiatives and game plans for tackling the “real work of reform.”MORE INFO »
Even the best infection control precautions fail when all employees are not alerted about potential exposure to infection. According to the CDC, almost 100,000 lives are lost in America each year due to infection.MORE INFO »
If you're not sure what Global Location Numbers (GLN) and Global Trade Item Numbers (GTIN) are, or whether you'll be able to transact business with vendors using GS1 Standards, then this webinar is for you. A key component of the webinar will be the rolling out of the GLN Progress Survey for Healthcare Providers.MORE INFO »
As healthcare systems and care delivery models evolve to better suit patient needs, the hospitalist specialty is positioned to greatly shape the future of the medical staffing model. This webinar will examine the market forces that resulted in the emergence of Hospital Medicine as a new specialty, and how the changing healthcare environment will drive how hospital medicine programs should be...MORE INFO »
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 »
August 25, 2010 - 8am pacific | 10am central | 11am eastern
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is offering billions of dollars in subsidies to healthcare providers to stimulate the use of IT. But plenty of organizations are already innovators in their use of IT to improve overall operations and improve delivery of care.MORE INFO »
Mortality, length of stay and patient safety. Those are among key clinical measures used in the annual 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks study conducted by Thomson Reuters to recognize high-performance hospitals. But that's only part of the picture. The study also includes financial markers for operational comparisons with peer organizations.MORE INFO »
Ever since a surge in cases of patient exposure to excess amounts of radiation during diagnostic procedures, pressure has been mounting for healthcare providers and equipment manufacturers. The FDA has already taken action, including a call for stepped-up training for practitioners and a more stringent approval process for radiation-emitting equipment.MORE INFO »
Hospitals and health systems heading to the bond markets face closer scrutiny of their risk to liquidity resulting from alternative investments that tie up cash—such as hedge funds, private equity and real estate—as well as debt marketed to short-term investors. As analysts and investors seek greater disclosure, healthcare organizations have begun reviewing their debt and investment...MORE INFO »
Every sector of the healthcare industry is scrambling to determine how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will affect them now and over the next 10 years as the new national healthcare reform law rolls out. Some strong indications of what may happen are coming from the state of Massachusetts, where providers and patients have been operating under similar legislation since 2006.MORE INFO »
Hospitals and physicians are scrambling to find ways to work together short of owning each other outright. One model that's gaining attention is a co-management arrangement through which a hospital and a group of physicians own and operate a facility or service as equals.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 »
