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Dave Carpenter

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PubMed2003

Reinventing the house call.

Web-enabled health monitoring is a hit among patients with diabetes and other chronic conditions. But questions regarding reimbursement and other issues are clouding its potential.

Diabetes Mellitus↗
PubMed2003

The money issue.

Volume is rising at a healthy pact. Technology is improving patient care. Many organizations have, out of necessity, strengthened business fundamentals, controlled costs and refined their focus. Yet not-for-profit hospitals are squeezed by a cash crunch that has balance sheets under pressure and credit downgrades outpacing upgrades--the result of shrinking investment income, rising pension obligations, low government reimbursement and other threats to operational stability. N&HN looks at the challenges, including recent fallout from the most pressing issues, how some systems have responded, and the pros and cons of borrowing now.

Capital Financing↗
PubMed2002

Point and click. (If only it were that easy.).

Along with tight reimbursement and confounding regulations, any list of big headaches for health care leaders includes information technology. We've been promised so much from IT for so long, and have been disappointed so many times, who can blame us for being skeptical, if not downright cynical? When is the last time an investment in information technology actually improved your bottom line? But we know we can't dismiss IT altogether. At the end of the rainbow there really is efficiency, security and better care for patients. So how close are we? In this issue, H&HN takes a hard look at technology--what it can do for us today and tomorrow. We look at return on investment, examining whether hospitals are measuring what they get back against what they put in; a budding effort to bring a common platform to health care IT; handheld computers; electronic medical records; and computerized physician order entry. The technology is out there, but it's fair to ask: is it really clicking yet?

Computer Communication Networks↗
PubMed2002

Robotics. Paging Dr. C-3P0.

Robots, once more comfortable in science fiction movies and in the minds of futurists, are slowly making their way to everyday hospital settings. The driver? Patient safety.

Humans↗
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Most wired innovator awards.

Three winners and three finalists have been applying creativity and online technology to solve some of health care's thorniest business problems.

Awards and Prizes↗