Members of the Healthcare Learning Community share the following articles to enhance understanding of best practices, learning solutions, and emerging trends in healthcare training. Members may click on a link to access the articles.
Google, Microsoft Venture Into World of Personal Health Databases
by Kelly Shermach, Certification Magazine
This winter, Google began storing the medical records of volunteer
patients of the Cleveland Clinic. The beta test follows pilots of Micros…
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Hospitals Show How to Accelerate Learning
by Jared Bleak and Stephanie Scott, Chief Learning Officer magazine
Hospitals deal with fast-paced technological advances, rapid and
constant arrivals of new information and regulation and a strong pressure …
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Novartis: Customizing Learning Initiatives for a Nonprofit Agency
by Lindsay Edmonds Wickman, Chief Learning Officer magazine
REPSSI, which became a non-governmental organization in 2005, works
to palliate the psychosocial impact of HIV/AIDS on children and youth i…
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Robots to Simulate Medical Situations at Meridian
by Jessica Valentine, The Daily O'Collegian
Students at Meridian Technology Center will soon use full-body
mannequin robots that breathe, talk, blink and respond physiologically like …
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Nanomedicine: Rethinking Medical Training
by Richard Moore, Medical Device Technology
A change in perspective and an expansion in knowledge are required
if society is to benefit from nanomedical products. As more products bec…
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Five Strategies for Increased Patient Satisfaction
by Diana Powell, DDIDirections
Improving patient service (and those all important satisfaction
scores) takes careful planning and attention, and focused execution. It's s…
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The Win-Win of Wellness in the Workplace
by Robert Petrancosta for IndustryWeek
Health care, as an employee benefit, is one of the fastest rising
and most seemingly uncontrollable costs facing employers today. In 2005, …
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Outpatient Imaging Reports TAT Cut from 64 to 9 Hours
by Jennifer Blaha of GE Healthcare for iSixSigma
Competition in the outpatient imaging center market is intense. One
northern California hospital that operates multiple imaging centers cre…
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Insights and Advice From Top DDI Consultants on Health Care Talent Management Trends
by Eric Hanson, Ph.D., Mike Kempa, and Diana Powell, DDI
Across the country and regardless of size or budget, health care
organizations face a number of commonalities and challenges. Our DDI consu…
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Re-Engineering Healthcare
by Ahmed Noor, Mechanical Engineering Magazine
The system is in need of repair in the United States, and engineers
are uniquely equipped to help fix it. Healthcare is the largest industr…
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Lean & Six Sigma: Fixing Healthcare a Process at a Time
by Carolyn Pexton, iSixSigma Healthcare
With so many different issues facing the U.S. healthcare system the
task of "fixing" it can seem insurmountable. Every healthcare executive…
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Tone At The Top: Leading Change In Health Care
by Charles Fred, The Denver Business Journal
Local pianist, composer and recording artist Kevin Asbjornson
recently described the difference between the "tune" and "tone" of a piano. T…
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Stemming the Retirement Tide at East Alabama Medical Center
by Jill Low, DDI
It seems like you can't flip through a business magazine these days
without reading headlines about the importance of high-quality senior l…
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Healthier solutions
by The Engineer
The future of healthcare is one of the most pressing global issues
of our time. Just look at the impact HIV/Aids has had in Africa, where t…
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IT Adoption: The rules of the game must change
by Charles Fred & Bob Bulow, Healthcare IT News
Rules dictate the way in which a game is played. In a work-related
environment, the "rules" we use to operate and make decisions have evolv…
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