Healthcare informatics : the business magazine for information and communication systems
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Distributing surveys to both leaders and staff can determine how issues like safety are perceived throughout an organization. Having leaders "adopt" units and serve as advocates for the staff can improve the delivery care throughout an organization. Safety programs often go hand-in-hand with large-scale IT implementations. Leadership engagement with clinicians' concerns can lead to a greater sense of team and to a more effective exchange of ideas.
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The fact that many clinical performance measures are now being designed with EHRs as their data source may lead to systemic improvements in patient safety. Healthcare Informatics looks at four healthcare providers whose IT infrastructures already underpin their performance improvement strategies.
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Smaller and rural hospitals face particular challenges in terms of matching the needed financial and human resources to the task of achieving meaningful use. Nonetheless, some smaller and rural hospitals have made surprising progress towards meeting the 2011 meaningful use criteria. Data reporting requirements under meaningful use will be particularly challenging for this type of hospital; engaging clinicians, especially physicians, in coming together to meet the challenges early on, will be critical to success.
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Three hospital systems provide details about how technology has influenced the way they prepare for disasters and what they have learned from their experiences.