{"title":"New access alternatives.","authors":"Meredith Meyer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tried recently to call your doctor's office to get a prescription refilled? Chances are you waited on hold long enough to memorize the words to Copacabana or learned the name of every front-line worker through three rounds of phone tag. From large health care systems to small doctors' offices across the country, each must respond on a daily basis to an influx of patient inquiries.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"39 6","pages":"22-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24084066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Millions in cash in your hospital halls. Calculating the cash value of employee engagement, Part II.","authors":"Matthew Simon","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Quality of care and the bottom line are often seen as trade-offs. But this can be a false dichotomy. As we shall see, many of the factors impacted by employee engagement--a term that encompasses trust, loyalty, motivation and cooperative spirit--contribute to both quality of care and financial performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"39 6","pages":"36-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24084070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technowave 2010: hospitals compete on high-tech care.","authors":"Russell C Coile","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The medical arms race is back. Hospitals are competing vigorously around new technology, spending millions on da Vinci surgical systems, Gamma knives, and high-tech heart implants. Many new technologies require large investments in specialized facilities and technology, pushing up capital investment and health costs. But other technologies have migrated from the inpatient to the outpatient, pushing costs down with shorter inpatient stays and rapid recoveries, like arthroscopic surgery.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"39 6","pages":"12-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24085398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recognizing and reducing risks: HIPAA privacy and security enforcement.","authors":"Andrew B Wachler, Amy K Fehn","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With the passing of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule deadline and the security rule deadline looming, many covered entities are left wondering if they are doing enough to prevent privacy and security breaches and what type of exposure their organization could face in the event of a breach.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"39 6","pages":"32-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24085403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Michigan hospitals and kids SCORE big.","authors":"Carole Stacy","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Michigan Health Council, in cooperation with four Michigan hospital systems, initiated Strive for Challenging Outcomes and Reach Excellence (SCORE) to develop a more diverse health care work force for Michigan. This project is aimed at helping minorities and underrepresented youth learn about careers in health care and helping hospitals get started toward building diversity programs in their communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"39 6","pages":"16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24085405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HIPAA's transactions regulations. Where are we today?","authors":"Elizabeth Callahan-Morris, Juli K Shields","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>By now, the health care industry is feeling the effects of the implementation of the Standards for Electronic Transactions promulgated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The standards, or transaction rule, have been substantially in final form since Aug. 17, 2000, but it has taken the industry every bit of the allotted time period, including a one-year extension, to work through the technical and interpretative issues to meet the Oct. 16, 2003, compliance deadline.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"39 6","pages":"18-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24085406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technology--assessment and capital.","authors":"Doug Wiescinski, Dennis Bagley","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Customer relationship management, physician order-entry, wireless application service providers--the list of evolving and emerging technologies within the health care industry is extensive, and it continues to grow.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"39 6","pages":"8-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24085397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Convenient and affordable training at your fingertips.","authors":"Erin Steward","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As companies spend less on training during the economic slowdown, their training departments are turning away from traditional classes and toward online programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"39 6","pages":"30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24085401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communication for high-performance teams.","authors":"Manya Arond-Thomas","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How many times have you been on a team where you felt that you weren't all on the same page or that the team wasn't performing up to the level it could or should be. And yet you know that your team members are bright and highly capable?</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"39 6","pages":"35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24084067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Look before you leap into a hire decision.","authors":"Stephen O'Connor","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An executive had to take a ferry across the river every morning to get to work. One morning he woke up and found that the electricity had gone off in the middle of the night. With no idea what time it was, he dressed and ate as quickly as he could and ran for the dock.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"39 6","pages":"26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24084068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}