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Why Do Some Hospitals Successfully Implement EHRs and Others Fail?
Posted by Chris Pace on November 18, 2009 under News, Technology | 
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By Carrie Vaughan, for HealthLeaders Media, November 17, 2009
There are pieces of advice I hear repeatedly when talking with technology executives about implementing electronic health records and why some organizations are successful whereas others struggle. Phrases like “get physician buy in,” “allocate more resources for training,” and “spend more time planning on the frontend” come to mind. Unfortunately, the advice doesn’t always come with strategies on how accomplish it.
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U.S. hospitals see profits dive, AHA reports
Posted by Mark Tribbett on November 11, 2009 under News | Be the First to Comment
The nation’s 5,010 nonfederal community hospitals posted a $17 billion overall profit in fiscal 2008—down 61% from the previous year—amid a punishing recession that caused a $20.5 billion reversal in healthcare providers’ investment portfolios, according to new statistics from the American Hospital Association.
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FRONTLINE – Sick Around the World
Posted by Chris Pace on November 10, 2009 under News | Be the First to Comment
In Sick Around the World, FRONTLINE teams up with veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist democracies — the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland — deliver health care, and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures. Full episode after the jump
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