Healthcare Industry News

2010 Industry News

September 2010

• Working Conditions Similar at Magnet and Non-Magnet Hospitals
  

August 2010

• Study Finds Growing Need for Anesthesia Providers
  
• CDC Launches Drug Resistance Web site
  
• Secretary Sebelius Announces $32 Million to Support Rural Health Priorities
  
• People First: Help Your Clinical Staff Make Technology Implementations a Success
  
• Meeting the Goals of ‘Meaningful Use’
  
• Accelerating Electronic Health Records Adoption and Meaningful Use
  
• AHA Elects New Trustees
  
• Disparities Still Exist for Patients, Says American College of Physicians
  
• Medicine by the Numbers: How Patient Data Can Put 'Family' Back in Family Practice
  

July 2010

• Best Practices Behind the Nation’s ‘Best Hospitals’
  
• ‘Most Wired’ Hospitals Plan for the Future and Meaningful Use
  
• HHS Awards $9 Million to Train Preventive Medicine Physicians
  
• AHA Supports CMS Telemedicine Proposed Changes and Requests Additions
  
• CPI Leads to Lower Costs and Better Patient Care
  
• Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Names Dr. Scott Campbell as New Executive Director and CEO
  
• Can an Apology Ease the Pain? When Hospitals Make Mistakes
  
• Patients Who E-mail Their Doctors are Healthier
  
• HHS Provides $390.5 million to Improve Hospital Preparedness and Emergency Response
  
• Reducing the ‘July Effect’: Helping New Physicians Avoid Errors
  
• President Obama Announces Recess Appointments to Key Administration Positions
  
• CPOE Systems Fail to Detect Half of Simulated Medication Errors
  
• Five Ethical Challenges in Healthcare
  
• Hospitals Feel Lingering Effects of Recession
  

June 2010

• The Season of Hospital Employees’ Discontentment and Disconnection
  
• Medicare Physician Payment Cuts Could Cost Millions More In Reprocessing
  
• Responding to the Sentinel Event Alert on Hospital Violence
  
• Risk Management and Clinical Personnel: Collaboration is Key to Reducing Errors
  
• Sebelius Announces New $250 Million Investment to Strengthen Primary Health Care Workforce
  
• Michigan Researchers: Recession May Be Compromising Hospital Quality
  
• MHA Recognizes USNS Comfort as Honorary Member
  
• OpenNotes Study Launches With More Than 100 Physicians, 25,000 Patients
  
• Legislative Update: Healthcare Issues Affected by the American Workers, State, and Business Relief Act of 2010
  

May 2010

• How Hospitals are Juggling Insurance Payors and Costs
  
• A Different Kind of House Call: Physicians Find a Way to Help During Nashville Floods
  
• Research Study Shows How Hospitals Can Reduce Energy Use
  
• HHS Secretary Sebelius Announces $1 Billion in NIH Recovery Act Awards to Construct or Improve Biomedical Research Facilities
  
• 9 Percent of all Internists Originally Certified Between 1990 and 1995 are No Longer Working in General Internal Medicine
  
• Studies: When Doctors Take More Responsibility, Care Becomes Cheaper And Better
  
• The Path to Integrated Healthcare
  
• Leaders Offer Practical Solutions for Improving Communication Between Doctors and Nurses
  
• Beacon Communities Lead the Charge to Improve Health Outcomes
  
• Could Canadian Healthcare Cuts Drive More Clinicians to the U.S.?
  

April 2010

• National Hospital Week is May 9-15
  
• Emergency Rooms Brace for Changes from H.R. 3590
  
• Standards of Excellence, Dedication to Patients Identify Top Facilities
  
• How New Reimbursement Rules for Adverse Events are Changing Patient Care
  
• Health Courts: A Chance for Justice for All?
  

March 2010

• Thomson Reuters Announces 100 Top Hospitals Award Winners
  
• Reducing Medical Errors: Five Low-Cost, High-Impact Initiatives
  
• Frequent Incidents, Severe Risks: Priorities for Keeping Healthcare Workers Safe
  
• AMN Healthcare Partners with the Clinton Health Access Initiative to Recruit Volunteer Pharmacy Mentor for Haiti Post
  
• Senate Postpones Cuts in Medicare Payments--Again
  
• New Lucian Leape Institute Report Finds that U.S. Medical Schools Fall Short in Teaching Docs How to Provide Safe Patient Care
  
• AHA Seeks Modification from IRS on Community Benefit Reporting
  
• Numbers Of Uninsured On Rise in Nation's Public Hospitals
  
• Let’s Talk! The 2010 Campaign for Patient Safety
  
• Key Solutions for Decreasing Hospital Readmissions
  

February 2010

• Patient Thefts Cost Hospitals $52 Million Annually
  
• FDA Unveils Initiative to Reduce Unnecessary Radiation Exposure from Medical Imaging
  
• Hospitals Turning to Lean Six Sigma for Performance Improvement
  
• A Meeting of the Minds on Scope of Practice
  

January 2010

• Healthcare Reform: Now What?
  
• The Outlook for Healthcare’s Workforce
  
• PAHO: Haiti Relief Efforts Continue to Face Major Obstacles
  
• New Online Flu Forum Allows Facilities to Share Tactics
  
• CDC: Four in 10 Office-based Physicians Use EHRs
  
• Healthcare Stimulus Funds: Where Has All the Money Gone?
  
• CMS and ONC Issue Regulations Proposing a Definition of Meaningful Use and Setting Standards for Electronic Health Record Incentive Program
  

2009 Industry News

December 2009

• IHI Leader Urges New Goals for Health Reform
  
• Understanding the Economic Impact of a Pandemic
  
• Leapfrog Goup Announces its 2009 Top Hospitals
  
• Doctors Provide the Right Prescription for Quality Improvement
  
• Clinicians Inspired to Launch Free Clinics for Uninsured
  

November 2009

• Infection-Control Strategies at Leading Hospital Can be Adapted for Everyday Use
  
• NIH Teams Up With The Lancet and Leading International Organizations to Address Public Health Impacts of Climate Change
  
• Clinical Research Training Offered by the NIH Clinical Center has Record Enrollment
  
• 'Better Ways to Pay for Health Care' Recommended by National Health Care Quality Coalition
  
• New Report Details Impact of Economic Downturn on Patients and Hospitals
  
• PSR Releases Groundbreaking Report on the Human Health Effects of Coal
  
• How New Standards For Tougher Error Rate Were Applied In This Years 2009 Improper Payments Report
  
• Thomson Reuters Announces 100 Top Hospitals for Cardiovascular Care
  
• NIDA Launches New Substance Abuse Resources to Help Fill Gaps in Medical Education
  
• U.S. Healthcare Efficiency Index(TM) Launches Primary Data Collection to Measure Current State of Electronic Adoption and Potential Cost Savings
  
• Payment Reform, New Delivery Models to Affect Nursing Workforce
  
• Health Insurers Pursue Growth Potential of Individual Market
  
• Hospitals That Care for Poor Patients Face Digital Divide Without Federal Help
  
• The Growth of Family-Centered Care
  
• Secrets of the Top 10 Health Systems for Quality, Efficiency
  
• Are You Ready to Respond to a Public Health Crisis?
  

October 2009

• HHS Awards $17 Million in a New National Initiative to Fight Health Care-Associated Infections
  
• Waste in the U.S. Healthcare System Pegged at $700 Billion in Report from Thomson Reuters
  
• Health Bills In Congress Will Not Fix Doctor Shortage
  
• The New Era of Professional Healthcare Interpreters
  
• HHS Recognizes Hospitals with Highest Organ Donation Rates
  
• Social Media in Healthcare: The Brave New World
  
• CDC: Flu Activity Unusually High for Early October
  
• Addressing Physician Stress, Medical Errors and the Aftermath
  
• New Online Tool Focuses On Improving Influenza Immunization Rates For Health Professionals
  
• Medical Devices: How Do You Know They Are Safe?
  
• Study: Surgical Masks Nearly as Effective as N95 Respirators Against Flu
  
• New Report Finds Hospital Beds Could Run Out in 15 States if 35 Percent of Americans Get H1N1
  
• Out-of-Pocket Health Care Costs Could Increase More Than 35 Percent in Every State by 2019
  
• AHA Endorsement Paves the Way for Streamlined Patient Smart Cards
  

September 2009

• FDA: Institute of Medicine to Study Premarket Clearance Process for Medical Devices
  
• New Issue Brief Highlights Key Findings on SCHIP
  
• Primary Care Workforce Takes Center Stage in Healthcare Reform
  
• Patient Safety Goals: New Lists Highlight Widespread Problems
  
• H1N1: What Healthcare Workers Need to Know Now
  
• ANA Launches New Web Site to Broaden Support for Safe Patient Handling Goals
  
• Secretary Sebelius Releases $33 Million in ARRA Funds to Train Health Professionals
  
• Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare Takes Aim at Patient Safety Failures
  
• New Survey Shows High Concern About Current Health System
  
• ANA President Among Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Powerful People In Health Care
  
• New Evidence Shows Nurses’ Impact on Quality and Patient Satisfaction
  

August 2009

• Patient-Centered Care: The New Necessity
  
• Federal Funding Aims to Spur Greater EHR Implementation
  
• RWJF Selects 15 Hospitals to Participate in National Quality Improvement Collaboratives
  
• President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Releases Report Assessing H1N1 Preparations
  
• Moody’s: Hospitals Likely to Experience Slower Economic Recovery
  
• Wisdom at Work: Success Strategies for Keeping Your Most Experienced Nurses
  
• Update: Medicare Picks N.J. to Test Innovative Incentive System
  
• Thomson Reuters Study Finds Impact of Recession Easing on U.S. Hospitals
  
• Thomson Reuters Research Identifies Top U.S. Health Systems
  
• Hospital Efficiency Efforts Reap Rewards
  
• Healthcare Reform Update: Price Tag Causes Delays
  
• New State-by-State Reports Show How Health Insurance Reform Will Benefit All Americans
  
• Secretary Sebelius Announces Senate Confirmation of Dr. Francis Collins as Director of the National Institutes of Health
  
• Healthcare Reform Bill Takes Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
  
• CMS Announces Policy and Payment Rate Changes For Inpatient Stay In Acute Care and Long-term Care Hospitals In Fiscal 2010
  

July 2009

• 450,000 Doctors Demand: ‘Heal Health Care Now’
  
• Healthcare Reform Takes Center Stage at AHA Summit
  
• Secretary Sebelius Makes Recovery Act Funding Available to Expand Health Professions Training
  
• Researchers Analyze Verbal Medical Orders
  
• ARRA Grants Available for Rural Hospital Facilities
  
• A Look at the Most Wired Hospitals and Health Systems
  
• AHA Board Elects John Bluford Chair-Elect Designate
  
• Nurses Survey: Patients Pay the Price for Insufficient Staff, High Workloads
  
• Best Practices for Retaining Nurses
  
• Young and Uninsured: A Portrait of Healthcare’s Future
  
• President Obama Announces Nominee for Surgeon General
  
• New Quality Data on Hospital Readmission Rates Available on Hospital Compare Web site
  
• Flu Summit: U.S. Prepares for the Second Wave of H1N1
  
• ’Secret Shoppers’ Help Monitor Hygiene Programs, Reduce Infections
  

June 2009

• Open Source Software: A Potential Solution to EHR Challenges
  
• New Buerhaus Report Shows Growth in Nursing Jobs, Cautions Shortage Isn’t Over
  
• Infection Control Cutbacks Cost Patients and Hospitals
  
• Texas Legislation Will Give Nurses Greater Staffing Influence
  

May 2009

• Nursing Education Receives a ’Stimulus’ of Federal Funds
  
• The Future of H1N1
  

April 2009

• Nursing Shortage Hits Home Health
  
• Study Reveals the Cost of Rehospitalization
  
• Campaign Helps Hospitals Find Strategies to Save
  
• New Methods for RN Retention
  
• HHS Report Outlines Need for Health Reform
  

March 2009

• Nurse-led Quality Improvement Project Begins at Hospitals Nationwide
  
• Underserved Communities Need a Wider Safety Net
  
• Increased EMR Adoption Among U.S. Hospitals
  
• Hospitals at a Loss During the Recession
  
• Obama Splits Health Reform Leadership Role
  

February 2009

• What the Stimulus Package Offers Healthcare
  
• SCHIP Expansion Passes Congress
  
• Daschle Withdraws as HHS Nominee
  
• ED Overcrowding Puts Patients at Risk
  

January 2009

• Sharp Hospital Creates Role of Chief Operating Officer
  
• Economic Stimulus: A Healthcare Band-Aid?
  
• Study Highlights the Economic Value of Nurses
  
• Finding the Cure for Hospital Credit Ills
  
• Hospitals Improve Safety and Quality of Care
  

2008 Industry News

December 2008

• Defining the Future: Hospital Recommendations from The Joint Commission
  
• Patient-centered Care Helps Hospitals Boost Patient Satisfaction
  
• Healthcare Reform and the New Administration
  
• Increased Nurse Staffing Leads to Greater Patient Satisfaction
  

November 2008

• Rising to the Top: AMN Healthcare Helps Women Break through the Glass Ceiling
  
• Hospitals Face Recession Woes
  
• New ED System Speeds Patient Flow
  
• Study Shows Top Hospitals Save Lives
  

October 2008

• Is the Retail Clinic Sector Slowing Down?
  
• Palliative Care Teams Save Money
  
• Joint Commission Issues Anticoagulant Safety Alert
  
• HHS Tackles Infection Control
  

September 2008

• Hospitals Offer Big Incentives to Attract Nurses
  
• Where are the 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare?
  
• Nation’s 100 Most Improved Hospitals Revealed
  
• California Proposes Serious Penalties for Patient Privacy Breaches
  

August 2008

• ER Smart Card Speeds Triage Time
  
• Patients Cut Preventative Care in a Poor Economy
  
• ‘Most Wired’ Hospitals Find More Satisfied Patients
  
• Healthcare Leadership Conference Focuses on Improving Quality, Safety and Performance
  

July 2008

• AMN Healthcare Announces Joint Commission Re-certification
  
• Better Outcomes in Leapfrog Hospitals
  
• AMA Postpones Decision on Secret Shoppers
  
• Online Shift Scheduling Boosts RN Morale
  
• Finding International Solutions to the Nursing Shortage
  
• Aviation Training Methods Help Hospitals Decrease Medical Errors
  

June 2008

• Poll Finds Nurses Want Safer Staffing Levels
  
• Hospitals Try New Night Shifts
  
• Hospital Patients Urged to Be Smart Shoppers
  

May 2008

• Telemedicine Cuts Cost on Pediatric ED Visits
  
• Ailing Economy Helps Ease Nursing Shortage
  
• Hospitals Under Siege by New ‘Super Bug’
  
• Pre-op Cleansing Reduces Surgical Site Infections
  
• Study Reveals the Costly Effects of Medical Errors
  

April 2008

• New Research Predicts Continuing Nurse Shortage
  
• The Army Reserve: 100 Years in the Medical Community
  
• Patient Satisfaction Data Now Included in “HospitalCompare” Web Site
  
• Medical Device Reuse Saves Money and the Environment
  

March 2008

• Performance Equals Profits for 100 Top Hospitals
  
• Hospital Strategies to Reduce Harm from High-Alert Medications
  
• Google Partners with Cleveland Clinic on Patient Record Site
  
• Study: One in 10 Patients Suffers a Preventable Medication Injury
  

February 2008

• Healthcare Spending Projected to Surpass General Inflation
  
• Sharp Memorial Hospital Achieves Magnet Status
  
• Freestanding Emergency Departments on the Rise
  
• Nevada Hospitals Are an Economic Force in the State
  

January 2008

• Does Health Insurance Guarantee Patients the Care They Need?
  
• New York Budget Changes Aim at Lowering ED Visits
  
• Leading Issues Facing Today’s Hospital CEOs
  
• CMS Hires PricewaterhouseCoopers to Monitor HIPAA Violations
  

2007 Industry News

December 2007

• New Security Group Creates 'Trust' in Electronic Medical Records
  
• Language Barriers Increase Risk for Adverse Events and Effects
  
• Health Reform Plan for California Passes First Vote
  
• Nine California Hospitals Face Expensive Penalties
  
• Survey Suggests HIPAA Regulations Slow Scientific Progress
  
• Adverse Drug Events Show Marked Increase
  

November 2007

• California Tightening Nurse-to-Patient Ratios in 2008
  
• Technology Needed to Improve Healthcare Work Environment
  
• Security Breaches Still Problematic for EHRs
  
• Internet Giants Jump Into Patient Records Fray
  

October 2007

• AMN Healthcare Travelers All Safe in Southern California
  
• Wildfires and Hospital Closures Put Pressure on San Diego Nurses
  
• Nurses and Staff Continue to Provide Care after Fire Evacuations in Southern California
  
• AMN Study Shows Travel Nurses Help Facilities Achieve Magnet Designation
  
• Are State Health Systems Making the Grade?
  

September 2007

• Healthcare Opinion Leaders' Views on the Quality and Safety of US Healthcare
  
• Abbreviations May Save Minutes; Prohibiting Abbreviations May Save Lives
  
• National Study Shows Temporary Nurses Deliver Quality Care
  
• WANTED: CXO to Transform Patient and Hospital Employee Experience
  
• Corps Makes Changes to Emergency Response Plans
  

August 2007

• Preventive Services Could Save 100,000 Lives Annually
  
• Joint Commission Accreditation is Key to Implementing Patient Safety Systems
  
• The Need for Protocols to Prevent Incontinence-Associated Dermatitis
  
• Johns Hopkins Hospital Tops in the Country
  
• More AMN News
  
• Joint Commission Selects New Leader
  
• Patients Have Better Outcomes in Most Wired Hospitals
  
• Workplace Key Factor in Nursing Shortage
  

July 2007

• Survey Identifies Importance of Injectable Medication Safety
  
• Massachusetts Universal Health Program Commences