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Leadership Strategies for Reaching Top Performance Faster
By Jean Chenoweth, Solucient, part of Thomson Healthcare
Kaveh Safavi, M.D., J.D., Solucient, part of Thomson Healthcare

While transformation of a healthcare organization from average to top performance is an ongoing journey, research is beginning to identify useful actions for leaders to shorten the trip and increase the impact on their organization.
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FEATURED SOLUTION
SAS® Gives Healthcare Organizations The Power to Know®   SAS® software is used for a variety of applications in more than 1,000 U.S. healthcare organizations, enabling healthcare leaders to turn complex data into the business intelligence needed to produce the most successful outcomes.

CONSULTANT'S CORNER

Pervasive Healthcare
Focused on an aging population well-versed in technology, ‘pervasive healthcare’ – real-time, remote monitoring of chronic health conditions – will improve care, contain costs and provide an entirely new level of service.


SPECIAL INTERVIEW

Q&A With Daniel Nigrin
Daniel Nigrin, Children's Hospital Boston


CASE STUDY

CASE STUDY: The Role of Enterprise Staffing and Scheduling in Quality Assurance
Like all large health systems across the country, Memorial Hermann faces the challenge of finding creative solutions to the cost and quality problems stemming from the nationwide nursing shortage. For Memorial Hermann, excessive utilization of outside agency staff was one such problem. It was a cost issue because by 1999 outside nursing agency staffing averaged approximately 60,000 registered nurse hours per month, at a monthly cost of $2.4 million.


VIEW POINT

I’m not suggesting that these efforts were ill-advised or ill-conceived. But as I’ve analyzed these initiatives, it has become apparent to me that there may well be a different, strategic approach that can accomplish the interoperability many integrated delivery networks seek and that can bypass many of the innate barriers that have largely stymied these efforts to date. I call this an “evolutionary” or “stepping stone” approach to interoperability.
Making the Case: An Evolutionary Strategy to Achieve Interoperability


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Performance/Leadership
Clinical Transformation
Clinical Decision Support/Business Intelligence


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