Health Care Finance Executive Personalities Revisited: A 10-Year Follow-up Study
A dynamic health care industry continues to call upon health care leaders to possess not one but multiple competencies. Inherent personality characteristics of leaders often play a major role in personal as well as organizational success to include those in health care finance positions of responsibility. A replication study was conducted to determine the Myers-Briggs personality-type differences between practicing health care finance professionals in 2014, as compared with a previous 2003 study. Results indicate a significant shift between both independent samples of health care finance professionals over the 10-year peri...
Source: The Health Care Manager - July 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Workforce and Leader Development: Learning From the Baldrige Winners in Health Care
This article discusses the best learning and development practices among the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winners in the health care industry since 2002 when the industry had its first award-winning organization. (Source: The Health Care Manager)
Source: The Health Care Manager - July 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
From the Editor
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Source: The Health Care Manager - July 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
The Manager and the Merger: Adjusting to Functioning in a Blended Organization
Once a cottage industry consisting of many scattered providers, health care has become an industry of large organizations and multi-institutional systems. Various organizational combinations continue to occur, especially in the form of mergers, affiliations, and the creation and expansion of health care systems. In the midst of this ongoing dramatic change, the role of the individual manager remains essentially unchanged in concept, but the arena in which that role is pursued is rapidly changing. Areas of responsibility are becoming broader, the groups overseen by individual managers are becoming larger, and many of the ol...
Source: The Health Care Manager - April 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Hospital Budget Increase for Information Technology During Phase 1 Meaningful Use
Federal policies have a significant effect on how businesses spend money. The 2009 HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act) authorized incentive payments through Medicare and Medicaid to clinicians and hospitals when they use certified electronic health records privately and securely to achieve specified improvements in care delivery. Federal incentive payments were offered in 2011 for hospitals that had satisfied “meaningful use” criteria. A longitudinal study of nonfederal hospital information technology (IT) budgets (N = 493) during the years 2009 to 2011 found increases in the per...
Source: The Health Care Manager - April 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Community Health Needs Assessment: A Pathway to the Future and a Vision for Leaders
There is a need to implement evidence-based public health practice that integrates targeted and specific strategies and actions with community preferences to improve the health of populations. A community health needs assessment (CHNA) is vital to identifying the health concerns of communities, to learn about the factors that influence their health and the assets, resources, and challenges that impact those factors. It is required for tax-exempt entities to conduct a CHNA and adopt an implementation strategy to meet the identified community health needs. The goal of this article is to chart a pathway for health system lead...
Source: The Health Care Manager - April 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Health Care Leader Competencies and the Relevance of Emotional Intelligence
This study did not suggest causation, but instead suggested that including the study and development of emotional intelligence in health care administration programs could have a positive impact on the degree of leader competence in graduates. Some curricula suggestions were provided, and further study was recommended. (Source: The Health Care Manager)
Source: The Health Care Manager - April 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Case in Health Care Management
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Source: The Health Care Manager - April 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Robotic Joint Replacement Surgery: Does Technology Improve Outcomes?
Osteoarthritis is a common disease that leads patients to seek total joint replacement (TJR). Component misalignment leads to failure of TJR. Computer navigation enhances the precision of component alignment, but the addition of robotic guidance can boost TJR to a higher level of accuracy. Some 29 English-language peer-reviewed articles from 2002 to 2013 and 1 Web site were reviewed. A conceptual framework was adapted to explain benefits and barriers of adoption of robotic TJR. A total of 10 studies were reviewed with focus on more precise alignment, outcomes, length of stay, and costs. Cost to obtain robotic surgical equi...
Source: The Health Care Manager - April 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Coding for Prematurity: Need for Standardized Nomenclature
This article describes the importance of need for specificity of the codes and emphasizes the role of training in preparing for implementation of the ICD-10 coding system. An example is made for the need for accuracy in ICD-10 codes for prematurity as regards defining the premature population using standardized nomenclature. (Source: The Health Care Manager)
Source: The Health Care Manager - April 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Manager-Employee Interaction in Ambulance Services: An Exploratory Study of Employee Perspectives on Management Communication
Managers of ambulance stations face many communicative challenges in their interaction with employees working in prehospital first-line services. The article presents an exploratory study of how paramedics experience these challenges in communication with station leaders. On the basis of a dialogue perspective in qualitative method, 24 paramedics were interviewed in one-to-one and focus group settings. Naturalistic and phenomenological approaches were used to analyze the interviews. All the paramedics said that they wished to be more involved in decision processes and that station managers should provide better explanation...
Source: The Health Care Manager - April 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Has Competition Increased Hospital Technical Efficiency?
Hospital competition and managed care have affected the hospital industry in various ways including technical efficiency. Hospital efficiency has become an important topic, and it is important to properly measure hospital efficiency in order to evaluate the impact of policies on the hospital industry. The primary independent variable is hospital competition. By using the 2001-2004 inpatient discharge data from Florida, we calculate the degree of hospital competition in Florida for 4 years. Hospital efficiency scores are developed using the Data Envelopment Analysis and by using the selected input and output variables from ...
Source: The Health Care Manager - April 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Using a Facilitation Model to Achieve Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition
This article describes how a facilitation model that included a partnership between a Community Care of North Carolina network and undergraduates at a regional university supported rural primary care practices in transforming their practices to become National Committee for Quality Assurance–recognized patient-centered medical homes. Health care management and preprofessional undergraduate students worked with 14 rural primary care practices to redesign practice processes and complete the patient-centered medical home application. Twelve of the practices participated in the evaluation of the student contribution. A semis...
Source: The Health Care Manager - April 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 - April 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Exchanging Honest Employment References: Avoiding the Traps of Defamation and Negligent Hiring
In present-day reference checking, many of the same organizations that seek as much information as possible about people they wish to hire resist giving out more than a bare minimum of information to other organizations. The strongest force driving this minimal reference information release is fear of legal action taken because of something said about an individual in a reference response. Many employers seem so frightened of being sued that they share nothing of substance, usually not realizing that in supposedly protecting themselves against defamation charges they are sometimes increasing the risk of negligent hiring ch...
Source: The Health Care Manager - January 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
