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In This Issue
Redefining Value and Success in Healthcare: Charting the Path to the Future Webcast
Across the healthcare industry, we are seeing forward-thinking organizations develop new competencies in anticipation of the opportunity that comes with industry-wide transformation. They are positioning themselves for success. And they are defining the future of healthcare. Will your organization be ready?
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Featured Article: Workstations
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Stop walking away with my bottom line!
A study reveals that the use of wall-mounted workstations in or near patient rooms could reduce the distance employees walk by 50-80 percent.
By Jenny Toole, Proximity Systems
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9 Tips to Connect your Hospital's Islands of Information
 With the amount of information healthcare technology generates, communications have become intricate webs of guesswork, unknown mobile devices, confusing schedules, and just too many systems going beep. In this paper, you’ll find nine tips to cope with this chaos.
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Attention healthcare shoppers: New price lists for procedures
Fourteen states have or are setting up searchable databases designed to help people shop and compare healthcare options based on price and quality.
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More than a third of prescriptions now are electronic
Dropping a paper prescription at the drugstore is becoming old-school: More than a third of the nation’s prescriptions now are electronic, according to the latest count.
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Penn decision support tool cuts CT use in the ED
A new decision support tool piloted at the University of Pennsylvania has cut the number of abdominal CT scans ordered by ED physicians by 10%.
Read the Advisory Board article. >
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New guidelines for health insurance exchanges released
HHS issued two guidance documents May 16 to help states build affordable insurance exchanges.
Read the notice from HHS. >
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ONC adds two agency offices
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Dr. Farzad Mostashari announced the creation of two new offices May 16: an Office of the Chief Medical Officer and an Office of Consumer eHealth.
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EHRs don't improve diabetes care
Consistent use of an EHR over three years does not ensure successful use for improving the quality of diabetes care, according to new findings published by the Annals of Family Medicine.
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Healthcare costs rise faster than U.S. inflation rate
Doctors, hospitals and drugmakers raised prices faster than inflation in 2010, driving U.S. health costs higher as fewer Americans sought care after the recession.
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Which states were toughest on doctors in 2011?
Public Citizen last week released its annual ranking of U.S. state medical boards, which measures how regularly each board orders serious disciplinary action against physicians.
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 Hot Clips: Cloud Computing
 
Click on the highlighted links below to read the top HMT archival properties concerning cloud computing, a topic that is at the forefront of healthcare discussions.
- Getting started with cloud computing
Offloading ancillary applications helps data center expand without adding cost or staff.
- Expert: Cloud computing a game changer for businesses
Cloud computing is a game changer for businesses, which now face the choice of adapting to the demand for ubiquitous access to data or losing customers to tech-savvy competitors.
- Overcoming today's PACS/RIS challenges
Select experts give their opinions.
- Is cloud storage right for your organization?
Many healthcare organizations are looking to third-party vendors for help.
- Making the cloud work for healthcare
Cloud computing offers incredible opportunities to improve healthcare, reduce costs and accelerate ability to adopt new IT services.
- How safe is the cloud?
All of the pieces are in place to enable secure and compliant cloud-based storage environments.
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