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At Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, there is a standard eight-step process for writing strategic plans.
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According to a recent survey, published in the Annals of Surgery, many U.S. surgeons fail to discuss their patients' wishes in case a risky operation goes awry, and even more say that they would not operate if patients limited what could be done to keep them alive. The survey indicates that the restrictions are being debated among doctors.
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Can you believe that 2012 is almost 25% over! It just started, for heaven's sake! Myself, I'm still struggling with issues from 2011.
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The ECRI Institute has said robotics should be on your radar for 2012, according to its top 10 watch list for CEOs, CFOs, and COOs1 (See complete list, below.) The list included one chapter with the provocative title, "Are costly robot wars coming to your operating room?
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Accrediting agencies do not provide a blueprint for writing a strategic plan. However, The Joint Commission and Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) expect hospital, ambulatory surgery center (ASC), and office-based surgery administrators to devote time to planning.
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At Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, a military hospital operated by the Army and the Defense Department in Landstuhl, Germany, medical-surgical teams save the lives every day of warriors wounded in Afghanistan and, until recently, saved troops wounded in Iraq. But that's only part of their success.
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A physician complained to the chief of staff and hospital management that surgical equipment was not being sterilized properly and a patient died as a result. The hospital responded by firing the physician, says Dave Scher, JD, a principal with The Employment Law Group in Washington, DC, who handled this case and specializes in representing whistleblowers.
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Administrators from all hospitals with reported events indicated that they rely on incident reporting systems to capture a large portion of the information about events that they use to conduct patient safety improvement activities, but they are not capturing most errors, according to a new report by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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These are some key findings from the Second Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security released recently by The Ponemon Institute in Traverse City, MI.: