A CONFUSING MODEL, TO SAY THE LEASTThis is a high-level illustration of the relationships between the major entities in the Health Reform plan of the House Democrats. Although the illustration refers to the plan of the House Democrats, the illustration was created by Republican staffers. In ..
PREPARING FOR AND TAKING THE PMP CERTIFICATION EXAMThe Project Management Professional (PMP) designation is one of today’s highly-sought and credible certification. It certifies that the person who possesses it has accumulated at least 4,500 hours of project experience—whether as a team ..
WAR ON TALENT TO BEGIN IN HEALTHCARE ITMy fingers are crossed. Your chances improve in rural areas. There are nearly 6,000 hospitals in the U.S. A third of them are in metropolitan areas. The 4,000 that are not have jobs that are going begging.According to an article today in Healthcare IT ..
WHO TOPPED A RECENT STUDY OF THE BEST HOSPITAL SYSTEMS?Thomson Reuters, a respected authority in industry analysis, just named Advocate Health Care, one of Chicago’s largest hospital systems, the best according to its latest study in quality and efficiency.Why is this important? “Compared ..
HOW THOUGHTLESS DECISION-MAKING & SLOPPY HOUSEKEEPING NEARLY HIJACKED A HOSPITAL’S JCAHOIn 2005, twenty servers running a critical application at the busiest hospital in Illinois were consolidated into one physical server. Instead of reaping the benefits of consolidation, disaster struck. (Its ..