Recently added articles from Healthcare Strategic Management:
Collect copays and deductibles up front to reduce bad debt and enhance your hospital's margins.(Finance)
Dec 01, 2006; ... The suggestion that hospitals should collect copayments and deductibles before providing service may seem like a lesson from Hospital Management 101. In theory, it's a given that hospitals would have processes and procedures in place to ensure that such payments are handled at the time of ...
Hospitals buy new equipment to care for obese patients.(Strategic notes)(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2006 ... More hospitals are changing to accommodate the rising number of morbidly obese patients, offering bariatric surgery, and other obesity-related procedures and tests, according to a report by the Toronto, ON-based healthcare strategic information firm Millennium Research Group (MRG). ...
New line of hospital garb offers patients more dignity.(KN Ltd./Karen Neuberger)(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2006 ... To boost patient satisfaction, hospitals have tried a range of initiatives, from improving physicians' bedside manner to improving food at the facility. The latest trend is to offer patients plush pajamas that provide full coverage in the back. Designed and marketed by the ...
U.S. trails other countries in tools to provide patient care.(Strategic notes)(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2006 ... Primary care doctors in the United States are less likely than those in several other countries to offer patients access to care outside of regular office hours or to have systems that alert them to potentially harmful drug interactions, according to a survey conducted by the New York ...
Portable system connects patients to interpreters.(Mercy Hospital )(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2006 ... Miami's Mercy Hospital recently installed a system that allows physicians to communicate around the clock with non-English-speaking patients. The Language Access Network allows live, one-on-one communication with interpreters using a portable flat-screen ...