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Why paid sabbaticals are part of hospitals' QI efforts
Hospital leaders who embrace creativity and innovation are finding ways to deliver quality care while keeping costs in check in the post-reform era, according to Hospitals & Health Networks
M-health might take a lesson from a more tawdry industry
I've written plenty about mobile technology being a disruption to the status quo in healthcare and I produced a FierceHealthIT special report on disruptive forces in health IT not too long ago. But
U.S. lags behind in mobile health adoption
Regular readers of FierceMobileHealthcare should be familiar with the idea that basic applications like text messaging or even voice communications can be awfully effective in low-income parts of the
West Wireless CMO: 'We're not giving money away'
The $90 million investment by Gary and Mary West in the West Wireless Healthcare Institute may seem enticing to someone with a startup mobile or wireless healthcare company, but don't get the wrong
The Chatroulette of healthcare rises in the spirit of experimentation and innovation
I'm going to start this week's column not by harping on the World Economic Forum's closed-door mobile healthcare summit again , but by breaking a little bit of news: Karen Coppock has been hired to
WEF posts videos from closed-door event, but there's much more to learn
For the past two weeks, I've brought you "news" about the World Economic Forum's closed-door mobile healthcare summit that took place June 28 in La Jolla, Calif. If you recall, I was rather fired up
Gartner analyst: Health CIOs must develop mobile strategies soon
Despite all sorts of forecasts indicating that usage of mobile and wireless technologies will skyrocket in the coming years, many healthcare CIOs have not implemented strategies to accommodate new
Blues suggest that public health insurance poses threat
Now here's a shocker: top execs from leading Blues plan are arguing that a public insurance plan will be bad for competition and could sneak in (gasp!) a single-payer system. The main theme of
