Use of Smartphones in Hospitals
This study suggests that smartphones have been playing an increasingly important role in health care. Medical professionals have become more dependent upon medical smartphone applications. However, concerns of patient safety and confidentiality will likely lead to increased oversight of mobile device use by regulatory agencies and accrediting bodies. (Source: The Health Care Manager)
Source: The Health Care Manager - October 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Leadership Characteristics for Health Care Managers: Perspectives of Chief Executive Officers in US Hospitals
A study was conducted to determine the perceptions of chief executive officers in US hospitals regarding the most important characteristics aspiring health care executives should possess. The results of this 2012 study were compared with a previous study conducted in 2007 to determine if the perceptions had changed over time. (Source: The Health Care Manager)
Source: The Health Care Manager - October 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Health Care Affordability: How to Make It a Reality
Health care is a big business. US health care expenditures reached $2.9 trillion in 2013. Patient spending accounted for 28% of the total, which means patients spent approximately $810 billion in 2013 for insurance premiums, deductibles, copays, coinsurance, and noncovered health care services. How are patients expected to pay almost a trillion dollars in health care expenses? There is a need to find a health care financing methodology that will make health care affordable for all patients and families. An alternative method for funding health care is discussed that includes creating a government-funded annuity during the ...
Source: The Health Care Manager - October 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Transformation of the Urban Health Care Safety Net: The Devolution of a Public Responsibility
This article identifies several factors that have contributed to the incremental demise of the publicly funded urban health care safety net and how local entities and the federal government are responding to the care of the poor and uninsured. (Source: The Health Care Manager)
Source: The Health Care Manager - October 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
From the Editor
No abstract available (Source: The Health Care Manager)
Source: The Health Care Manager - October 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
The Effects of Supervisors’ Support and Mediating Factors on the Nurses’ Job Performance Using Structural Equation Modeling: A Case Study
This study aimed to determine the effect of supervisors’ support and mediating factors on the job performance (JOBPER) of 400 nurses working in the teaching hospitals affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, using structural equation modeling. The results showed that the supervisor’s support had a significant negative effect on work-family conflict (t = −2.57) and a positive effect on organizational commitment (t = 4.03); Work-family conflict had a significant positive effect on job stress (t = 11.24) and a negative effect on organizational commitment (t = −3.35) and JOBPER (t = −2.29). Family-work co...
Source: The Health Care Manager - July 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Participation of Rural Health Care Providers in Accountable Care Organizations: Early Indications
Recently, some rural health clinics (RHCs) throughout the country have chosen to join groups of health care providers in accountable care organizations (ACOs). Examined are characteristics of Southeastern RHCs and the counties they serve; it is shown how those characteristics compare with other regions across the country and suggested what role those differences might play in an RHC’s decision to participate in an ACO. Rural health clinic–related data were collected and summarized for 2 time periods: 2007 and 2011: for 2007, data from RHCs throughout the United States; for 2011, summarized demographic data related to r...
Source: The Health Care Manager - July 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Professional Quality of Life of Veterans Affairs Staff and Providers in a Patient-Centered Care Environment
This study was conducted to examine professional quality of life among providers at patient-centered care pilot facilities. Surveys were conducted with 76 Veterans Affairs employees/providers at facilities piloting patient-centered care interventions, to assess demographics, workplace practices and views (team-based environment, employee voice, quality of communication, and turnover intention), and professional quality of life (compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress).
Professional quality-of-life subscales were not related to employee position type, age, or gender. Employee voice measures were rel...
Source: The Health Care Manager - July 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Exploring Social Quality and Community Health Outcomes: An Ecological Model
This study investigated the interrelationships among institutional capacity, citizen capacity, and their associations with community-level health indicators such as mortality and suicide among 230 local governments in South Korea. Under the principles of conceptual suitability, clarity, reliability, consistency, changeability, and comparability, a total of 81 SQ indicators were collected, and 19 indicators of the 81 indicators were selected. The 19 indicators were transformed by the imputation of missing values, standardization, and geographic information system transformation. It was found that the health outcome of local...
Source: The Health Care Manager - July 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Social Media in Health Care: How Close Is Too Close?
Social media use is increasing personally and professionally across numerous industries worldwide. The purpose of this article is to explore the utilization of social media in the health care field; specifically, how the treatment of a physician’s Facebook friends would differ from that of a patient the physician did not know prior to treatment. While there are several benefits that come with incorporating social media into health care, as well as into the physician-patient relationship, there are also immense risks. The present study surveyed physicians to assess their opinions on the boundaries of an appropriate patien...
Source: The Health Care Manager - July 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
A Single-Center Multidisciplinary Initiative to Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Rates: Quality and Financial Implications
Discussion: Our intervention demonstrated that provider education and electronic documentation prompts were followed by a significant decrease in catheter utilization, that in turn was followed by lower infection rates. Decreased emphasis on intervention goals were followed by an increase in CAUTI rates. Our subsequent interventions suggest that upward trends may be reversible. (Source: The Health Care Manager)
Source: The Health Care Manager - July 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Case in Health Care Management
No abstract available (Source: The Health Care Manager)
Source: The Health Care Manager - July 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Tweeting and Treating: How Hospitals Use Twitter to Improve Care
Hospitals that have adopted Twitter primarily use it to share organizational news, provide general health care information, advertise upcoming community events, and foster networking. The purpose of this study was to explore the benefits that Twitter utilization has had in improving quality of care, access to care, patient satisfaction, and community footprint while assessing the barriers to its implementation. The methodology used was a qualitative study with a semistructured interview combined with a literature review, which followed the basic principles of a systematic review. The utilization of Twitter by hospitals sug...
Source: The Health Care Manager - July 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Interventions of an Academic Medical Center to Improve Likelihood to Recommend
Improved patient satisfaction is correlated with improved adherence and health outcomes for patients and financial performance for health care organizations. Increasingly, efforts are being made to measure and optimize patient satisfaction by both providers and insurers. Researchers investigated whether specific changes in staff interaction with patients would improve patients’ likelihood to recommend a practice. There were 4 separate initiatives implemented by the medical staff and providers at 14 unique practice sites. At these sites, patients’ satisfaction was measured 9 weeks prior to the initiative and then for 9 ...
Source: The Health Care Manager - July 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Implementation of Measures to Improve SCIP Perioperative Beta-Blocker Compliance: Quality and Financial Implications
Discussion: A relatively low cost intervention, aimed at educating providers that utilized existing infrastructure resulted in improved SCIP beta-blocker compliance. Changes in the reimbursement system made at the time of publication demonstrate that reimbursement measures are constantly in flux; tailored interventions based upon our successes may still produce similar results. (Source: The Health Care Manager)
Source: The Health Care Manager - July 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
