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Managing Capital Project Risks
in a Challenging Environment:
What Health Care Boards and Executives Need to Know

Center for Healthcare Governance

In the wake of unprecedented capital construction and technology spending, the meltdown of financial markets, and other health care market dynamics, it is time for renewed risk management by the C-suites and boardrooms of hospitals and health care systems ...

Our Journey to Zero Patient Harm

Group Practice Journal

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine’s landmark report, To Err Is Human, sounded an alarm with the statistic that up to 98,000 Americans die each year from preventable medical errors. That rate of ...

Evaluating liver fibrosis with a breakthrough ultrasound technology: Shear Wave Elastography

Diagnostic Imaging Europe

Liver fibrosis is a common consequence of all chronic liver diseases; cirrhosis can result from the evolution of liver fibrosis and is an important endpoint in patient management ...

Ultrasound Guidance at the Point of Care

Executive Insight

As we move forward into an era of increased healthcare system accountability, the key question hospital administrators face is how to reduce costs and still maintain stringent safety standards. ...

Like a torch in the night

European Hospital

No one would think of roaming through unknown territory at night without a torch. Yet, anaesthetists have been doing just that when navigating through peripheral nerve blocks ...

CAD Decisions

ImagingEconomics.com

Providing diagnostic imaging services is becoming more competitive every day, and increasing economic pressures are some of the most daunting factors in the mix ...

Unlocking The Value of Medical Equipment

Radiology Management

Radiology administrators are dealing with a lot more complexity than they did 20 years ago. New business models and the purchase, integration, and use of new technology ...

Emergency Ultrasound at the Bedside: Not Just FAST

Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare

For critically injured trauma patients,“there is a golden hour between life and death,”observed R.Adams Cowley, MD, who pioneered the United States’ first statewide ...

Ultrasound needle Guidance in RHeumatology

Rheumatology Practice News

imaging choices hold key for reduced cost and improved quality of care Healthcare Financial Management With the continuing transition from volume-based to value-based payment ...

imaging choices hold key for reduced cost and improved quality of care

Healthcare Financial Management

With the continuing transition from volume-based to value-based payment, the nation’s hospitals and health systems face an ongoing challenge in finding ways to improve quality of care ...

Keeping Everything On Track

European Hospital

Real-time locating systems help to achieve more than finding and shifting. Oslo-based Sonitor Technologies specialises in the development and manufacture of ultrasound-based real time locating systems (RTLS) ...

Ultrasound Aboard the International Space Station

Radiology Management

On March 8, 2001, NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying a special payload—a modified Philips/ATL HDI 5000 Ultrasound System ...

Go for growth What will it take to be a leader in the next growth cycle?

CEO Today

Now is the time to separate your company from competitors. If your company can achieve growth through the foreseeable future, it will emerge as one of the leaders in the next growth cycle ...

The Art & Science of Winning Physician Support for Six Sigma

Physician Executive Journal

As hospitals face mounting regulatory burdens, calls for improved quality and safety, serious budget challenges and extraordinary capital requirements for infrastructure and new technology ...

The Indispensable CFO

Finance Today

Chief bean counter. Cost cop. Gatekeeper. These are all colorful terms that have been used to describe the role of the chief financial officer. The truth is, they are as out-ofdate as wood paneling or brick-sized cell phones ...

Making Cents Out of the Hiring Process

Strategic Finance

When major companies replace executives at the highest levels, whole communities pay attention and watch for the golden parachute that everyone has come to expect. We’re all amazed and often shocked by the costs associated with severance packages ...

Broadening Use of Financial Data To Improve Patient Care

Healthcare Financial Management

Healthcare CFOs can use financial data not only to reduce utilization and supply costs, but also to identify variability in physician practices, increase adherence to evidence-based guidelines ...

Bonding with Physicians: Hospitals and IT Donations

Trustee

HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SYSTEM LEADERship may still be hesitant to use the recently implemented Stark exceptions for the donation of health information technology to their community-based ...

Europe’s pre-owned market will accelerate

www.hospitalradiologyeurope.com

Since 1978 I’ve been involved in the pre-owned medical equipment business. Initially, I sold imaging equipment in China as an agent for Picker. In more than 70 trips there I sold ...

Is the end in sight?

Global Reinsurance

THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL PERSONAL injury tort claim relating to asbestos in the US was settled in the early 1970s. For the next decade, seriously ill individuals – those with cancer or severe asbestosis – filed almost all of the claims. Many targeted the ...

Hospital-Physician Clinical Integration

Center for Healthcare Governance

As long as there have been hospitals; the topic of improving hospital-physician relationships has been a focus for trustees.Today, however, the conversation has both a heightened sense of urgency and a wider scope of alternatives than ever before ...

PART VII Transfers: An Update

Insurance & Reinsurance Law Briefing

Since Part VII of Financial Service and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA 2000) took effect there has been great interest in the use of this restructuring tool within the run-off sector of the non-life insurance market in the United Kingdom. The majority of Part VII insurance business transfer schemes effected in the ...