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Web-based reporting credited with state's top healthcare ranking

...tal quality. In 2004, WHA launched CheckPoint , a voluntary hospital quality reporting website. This report confirms what is well known in the area of quality improvement - if you can measure it, you can improve it, Richardson said in a release. Through CheckPoint, the state initially focused on 10 quality ...

Getting beyond the vortex of corporate mediocrity

...e, have in turn spawned immediate resignations and voluntary departures as an accepted practice by individuals. Most people at many levels are thinking about it now because companies didn't know that a bridge is a two-way street and burning your bridges can apply to them as well. As for problems due to lac...

Yasnoff: Wisconsin should invest in health record bank

...pting to create the relationships necessary to the voluntary exchange of information, but politics has convinced it to take only part of Yasnoffs advice. The exchange continues to pursue what Dr. Edward Barthell, president of the National Institute for Medical Informatics and WHIEs co-principal investigator...

Technology played key role in E. coli alerts

...unties in California, and several producers issued voluntary product recalls. To date, 175 people in 25 states have been infected, including 93 hospitalizations and one death, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration . A relatively limited spinach contamination may not inspire as much fear as an a...

Workplace flexibility: Give and take or tug of war?

...r personal or family reasons, to spend time in the voluntary sector, or to become self- employed. Most - especi...ing unsustainable levels of burnout, turnover, and voluntary exile from the workforce. Redefining working arrangements and employment relationships around the br...

GE's Centricity EHR receives federal certification

...ommission for Healthcare Information Technology, a voluntary private-sector initiative, was awarded a three-year contract in September 2005 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contract calls for the commission to develop and evaluate certification criteria and an inspection proces...

Company defends RFID implant product

...adio frequency enabled microchips is stressing the voluntary nature of the product following the signing of a bill prohibiting Wisconsin employers and government agencies from requiring them to be implanted. Scott Silverman, chairman and CEO of Applied Digital, the parent of VeriChip Corp., said the company's...

SGI receives court approval for bankruptcy motions

...ay 8, SGI and its domestic U.S. subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for business reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. SGI, which employs 340 people at its Chippewa Falls manufacturing plant, will use the credit facility, which was provided by a group of its bondholders, to cover em...

Interview: Dr. William Yasnoff on health records, part 2

...r cooperation. One is voluntary. If you believe in voluntary cooperation I have some wetlands to sell you in Florida, because that's just not going to work. You could also pay the stakeholders to cooperate, but the question is where you're going to get the money for that. So really, you have to mandate coopera...

Federal and global guidelines on stem cell research offer a level playing field

...s. The new committee will build upon the Academy's voluntary guidelines for stem cell research, which were released in April 2005. The new panel will serve as a standing body that will update the guidelines and resolve issues too difficult for local advisory panels. In what should be comforting to those who ...

It's in the mail -- Responding to an FDA warning letter

...uately corrected. A key goal of warning letters is voluntary compliance. The FDA issues warning letters to prov...ividuals and companies with an opportunity to take voluntary and prompt corrective action. To be considered an official warning letter, a letter from the FDA m...

Challenging times for FDA and drug companies equals IT opportunities

...DAs adverse event reporting system is dependent on voluntary reports from health care providers. Better computer systems are needed both for collecting data and analyzing patterns associated with the use of pharmaceutical products. In August, UnitedHealth, an insurer of more than 20 million, plans to impleme...

Wisconsin Health Information Exchange shares burden of electronic medical records

...sh is to create the relationships necessary to the voluntary exchange of information that to date has been considered proprietary by most providers. "Our belief is that competing health-care organizations need a trusted, neutral organization to govern health information exchange," said Seth Foldy, who is lead...

Science in motion

...at attacks the neurons responsible for controlling voluntary muscles. "It is the first report of making human embryonic stem cells into motor neurons, so it's clearly the right tissue and the right cell type we're looking for in ALS [research]," said Lucie Bruijn, Ph.D., science direction and vice president a...

Dont rely on information technology to change corporate culture

... selfish behaviors. Deploying a system to promote voluntary collaboration in an organization that pits people against each other is folly. Trying to force people to collaborate and share information via IT in such an environment is inviting rebellion or civil war. Companies really serious about changing the b...

MoneyTree Survey reports no venture investment activity in Wisconin in Q2

...tional venture capital industry but emphasized its voluntary nature. People should keep in mind [that MoneyTree is] still a voluntary thing, Lipper said. The MoneyTree does capture a lot of people who don't report. Typically, venture ...

Federal advisor to HHS describes the national information infrastructure

... stressed that all data to be added to a system is voluntary and confidential, and that security will keep the data in a secured format. My sense is that the general public does not want confidentiality handed out the way we hand out speed limits they want to practice affirmative communication, and they want...

Wisconsins Businesses Can Become Environmental Leaders

...tly running or designing a registry that creates a voluntary program for businesses to register all emission reductions including those provided by documented energy efficiency strategies. It is E4s mission to highlight the benefits of its members energy efficient activities. In Wisconsins case, the stated p...