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Health Governance Report

Issue 6, June 1, 2012 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Predictive modeling options to cut preventable admissions

  With the looming threat of reimbursement losses for preventable 30-day readmissions, healthcare...

• 10 things we don't know about looming readmission penalties

  The second, and some say the most anxiously anticipated, document setting forth how hospitals with...

• Preventing hospital readmissions takes a village

  Remember the African proverb "it takes a village to raise a child"? Maybe it takes a...

• Readmissions battle gets help from tech

  Software-as-a-service solutions could curb readmissions. The technology also enables discharge...

• Hospital readmission penalties set to start

  Although experts disagree on how many readmissions are actually preventable, the Medicare Payment...

Issue 5, May 1, 2012 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• A new look at imaging

  Within the next five years, experts believe that patients will have-or will come to...

• Well-meaning health IT efforts

  In HealthLeaders Media's January 2011 Intelligence ­Report, E-Health Systems: Opportunities...

• Impact of postponing the ICD-10 deadline

  HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced in ­February that the federal government will delay...

• Four social media strategies to build patient loyalty

  In order to build relationships and truly connect with members of your community through social...

• Meaningful use Stage 2 proposed rules released

  The long-anticipated proposed rules for Stage 2 meaningful use were released in February by HHS...

Issue 4, April 1, 2012 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Putting data in nurses' hands

  Although the title of chief nursing informatics officer or nurse informaticist isn't exactly...

• Nurses key to care coordination

  The role of nurse advocate and care coordinator will only grow in coming years as the practice of...

• Designing a hospital? Ask nurses first

  A growing number of hospitals are involving nurses in the design of their facilities, consulting...

• Real value of seeking credentialing lies in the journey

  How much does designation as an American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet Recognition...

• The challenge to collaborate

  Until you identify the source of a problem, you are not likely to develop a solution. A common...

• Insurer trains nurse care coordinators

  In January, WellPoint, Inc., said it would increase payments to physicians who transition to...

Issue 3, March 1, 2012 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• How big, how soon?

  Hospitals and health systems are rapidly transitioning their businesses to deal with some of the...

• Spectrum Health targets ED frequent flyers for primary care

  A new program at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, MI, is identifying "frequent...

• William F. Jessee talks physician-hospital alignment

  After being president and CEO of the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) for 12 years...

• Three keys to recruiting employed physicians

  Healthcare reform, the unsteady economy, and an ­increased value on lifestyle balance are...

• Four vital issues for physicians in 2012

  Besides the issue of a sustainable growth rate ­formula, which is seemingly always on...

Issue 2, February 1, 2012 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Intersection of solution

    Whatever the catchphrase or program being discussed to make healthcare more...

• To prevent VBP financial loss, think like a clinician

  Healthcare financial leaders and clinicians have traditionally worked in their own silos, running...

• Top 12 uncertainties hovering over healthcare

  If ever there was a year in which "anything could happen" in healthcare, 2012 just might...

• Lowest-quality care goes to poor, minority patients

  Harvard researchers who identified 178 hospitals that provide the lowest quality of care yet have...

• How to motivate clinical staff for value-based purchasing

  Healthcare financial leaders are probably well aware of the performance-based penalties and...

Issue 1, January 1, 2012 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Six steps to creating a connected health program

  A successful connected health program, in which patients use information technology and other...

• Alliances: Pathways to an ACO

  Federal regulations, especially surrounding accountable care organizations (ACO), get plenty of...

• ED docs must look beyond acute care

  ED physicians see themselves in a health reform vise, squeezed on one side by administrators and...

• How health IT can make care transitions safer

  So much can go wrong during so-called transitions of care. Lack of communication and coordination...

• AMA asks Medicare to pay doctors for care coordination

  The AMA wants Medicare to start paying doctors for four types of coordination services because...