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“Managing Up” in Health Care Supply Chain
April 6, 2021

Whether you are a new employee or a seasoned professional with a new boss, taking time to consider three elements of "managing up" can help you establish trust and create an optimal working... read more

Supply chain
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CMS Updates its Star Ratings: A Simpler Methodological Approach Provides Clarity Needed to Drive Change
April 29, 2021

Whether you are a hospital administrator, a physician, a nurse, or other member of your hospital’s family,you know well the true north of our daily purpose is to provide quality health care to patien... read more

Data & analytics
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Leadership Rounding: Shifting to a Tracer Approach for Regulatory Compliance
May 5, 2021

Are you a clinical leader, new accreditation professional or someone who is tired of performing the traditional “audit” to evaluate regulatory compliance? There has to be a better way, right? There i... read more

Quality & clinical operations
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Aligned for Success: 3 Ways to Strengthen the Relationship Between Hospital Contracting and Clinical Value Analysis Teams
May 25, 2021

Clinical value analysis, in its essence, is a decision-making platform where the clinical value analysis team pulls data and information from various sources to tell a story around the initiative at ... read more

Supply chain
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Five Things you Can Do Right Now to Protect your Health System Pharmacy from Cyber Intrusions
June 8, 2021

Cyber intrusions continue to plague health care organizations and the impact has been heightened during the COVID-19 pandemic as resources and personnel are stretched thin and cyber attackers take ad... read more

Pharmacy
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Is Your Health System Ready for Direct-to-Employer Contracting? Four Keys to Success
June 18, 2021

Agrowing number of self-insured employers are bypassing traditional benefit networks offered by insurers and instead contracting directly with health systems to deliver health care services to their ... read more

Financial sustainability
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Improving Human and Environmental Health: A Call for Environmentally Preferred Health Care Sourcing
June 25, 2021

As health care organizations, our sourcing practices directly impact the environment and the health of the communities we serve. To operate responsibly, it is essential that we consider how our purch... read more

Supply chain
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You’ve Been Hit: How a Downtime Plan for Your Health System Pharmacy Can Support Continuity of Care While Offline
July 1, 2021

Cyberattacks are at an all-time high, with health care consistently in the top five industries targeted by cyber criminals. Because health system pharmacies rely heavily on networks, software and ele... read more

Pharmacy
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The Shift from Reprocessed to Single-Use Endoscopes Grows: Is it Right for Your Organization?
July 21, 2021

The disposable endoscopes market was valued at $1.3 billion in 2020 and is expected to grow 16.9% from 2021 to 2028 due to the low cost of maintenance, the rising prevalence of chronic diseases and c... read more

Supply chain
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Joint Commission and Block Charting During Emergencies: Is it Right for Your Hospital?
July 29, 2021

Nurses on the front line are often challenged to document each individual dose adjustment of complicated medication titrations while simultaneously providing emergent/urgent care to patients. Guidanc... read more

Quality & clinical operations
Workforce & culture
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Hospital Outpatient Pharmacy is Alive and Enhancing an Integrated Patient Experience
August 13, 2021

Mark Twain once said, “the report of my death was an exaggeration.” And throughout history, that statement was misquoted many times by those wanting to embellish a misjudged outcome. Given recent new... read more

Pharmacy
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Transforming to a High-Reliability Health Care Organization: Moving from Theory to Practice
September 9, 2021

Health care leaders frequently state their organization is on a high-reliability journey—but why? The simple explanation is the desire to have more reliable outcomes and overall performance. Achievin... read more

Quality & clinical operations
Workforce & culture