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Transamerica Bolsters Enrollment for Acquired Healthcare Providers
Case Study
Learn how Trinity Health streamlined the retirment benefits enrollment across three newly acquired organizations, each with their own unique culture.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Transamerica
A System of its Own
Case Study
The Center for Health Ambulatory Surgery Center (CFH) implements a cost effective incident reporting tool tailored to ambulatory outpatient care.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: RL Solutions
Partners Continuing Care: Made to Measure
Case Study
Learn how all of Partners Continuing Care staff are using RL6 to capture and report adverse events.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: RL Solutions
Small Hospitals Gets Big Results
Case Study
Two facilities with less than 100 beds struggled with finding patient safety software that would be highly functional yet priced for their facilities. Learn what they found with RL6.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: RL Solutions
7 Trends Impacting Wellness
Other
Learn why 95% of employers plan to expand and/or maintain investment in health improvement programs with this eBook.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Interactive Health
Healthways Program Helps Prevent Unnecessary Readmissions
Other
Learn how over 6-weeks 14 hospitals used the Healthways Care Transitions Solution? to reduce preventable readmissions and avoid costly penalties.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: Healthways
Top Healthcare Issues: Yours, Mine, and Ours
Other
Read this article by Mo Kasti, founder and CEO of The Physician Leadership Institute", for insights on how CEOs and CMOs can make their top challenges manageable.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: The Physician Leadership Institute
Reduced Preventable Readmissions by Pharmacist-led Care Transition
Case Study
This pharmacist-led care transition program resulted in fewer unplanned hospital readmissions for patient age and CMS target conditions.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Walgreens
How a Business Associate Chose to Ensure HIPAA Compliance
Case Study
Ensure your Business Associates are serious about compliance: See how Pulsara and Clearwater made HIPAA compliance a competitive advantage.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: Clearwater Compliance
Progressive Human Capital Management in 2016: A Healthcare Perspective
Other
This report explores how top-performing healthcare institutions have adopted a range of human capital management technologies and best practices in response to these changes.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Halogen Software
AHA Executive Summary Critical Conversations on the Changing Health Environment: Patient and Community Engagement
Executive Summary
In 2015, provider executives met with health solution providers to discuss how they are addressing the challenges of patient and community engagement in the new era of value-based care.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum Financial Sustainability
Patient and Family Engagement Resource Compendium
Tool
This resource compendium was developed to help link PFE concepts and strategies to available resources.
Challenge: Care Continuum
Developing an Effective Health Care Workforce Planning Model
Tool
Learn how to improve recruiting, sourcing, retention, and more to build a strong and sustainable workforce to support patient care.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
Integrated Leaders Build a Culture of Trust
Whitepaper
Learn how to build the trust necessary to achieve meaningful collaboration, or integrated leadership.
Challenge: Care Continuum Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: The Physician Leadership Institute
Physician Talent Management: Human Resources Transforming Healthcare
Whitepaper
This white paper offers a detailed plan for developing physicians for leadership positions and ensuring seamless transitions.
Challenge: Care Continuum Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: The Physician Leadership Institute
TAKE AIM Engagement
Video
Learn about Vestagens TAKE AIM Engagement, which uses evidence-based assessment tools completed by your employees and your target patient market to better align their perceptions surrounding your culture of safety and the role it plays in patient safety and satisfaction.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: Vestagen Technical Textiles, Inc.
Selecting a Talent Management Suite: Experts Share the Real Story
Whitepaper
Gain insights from human capital analyst David Creelman and leading HR technology experts and HR professionals on key considerations in the talent selection process.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Halogen Software
Retirement Trends in Todays Healthcare Market 2015
Other
The report provides analysis to guide health care plan sponsors and their advisors as they benchmark their organizations in many areas of plan design and management, in order to critically evaluate opportunities for improvement.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Transamerica
Why Does Your Organization Need Outplacement?
Whitepaper
Discover what outplacement services entail, expected results and how to select an outplacement provider.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: RiseSmart
Workforce Restructuring Treatment Plan
Tool
Learn best practices for smoothly conducting a reduction in your organizations workforce.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: RiseSmart
Performance Management 101 HR Workbook
Tool
This compilation of best-practice resources and templates helps hospitals improve employee performance while increasing managers available time to focus on patient care.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Halogen Software
Building Employee Engagement: How To Improve Employee Retention And Increase Patient Satisfaction
Whitepaper
Strengthening engagement levels leads to happier employees who are satisfied with their jobs and stay longer, which leads to better patient care and satisfaction. Learn how to build engagement.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: HealthcareSource
HealthcareSource and ASHHRA Present: The 2015 Healthcare Workforce Executive Insights Survey Results
Whitepaper
How have health care field changes affected talent management practices? Survey findings highlight challenges ranging from recruiting high-quality employees to training and retaining them over time.
AHA Endorsement: HealthcareSource
Engaging Employees with Chronic Health Conditions
Other
Learn how a results-driven wellness program can be the foundation for positive health changes in hospital employees.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Interactive Health
Guide to Incentive Design and Increased Participation
Whitepaper
Find out how to develop the best wellness incentive strategies to drive positive health behavior changes with employees.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Interactive Health
Enterprise Shared IT Services A Healthcare Solution Case Study
Case Study
With 13 facilities and hundreds of people depending on the IT systems, PHC was determined to find the best approach in dealing with their IT management concerns.
Challenge: Clinical Integration
AHA Endorsement: IP Services
Managed Data Center and IT Infrastructure - A Banking Industry Case Study
Case Study
Implementing a proven and knowledgeable managed IT services provider that developed the necessary design, provided professional deployment of systems and infrastructure, and offered the expertise to manage and maintain the system.
Challenge: Clinical Integration
AHA Endorsement: IP Services
Managed SaaS and PaaS A Software Industry Case Study
Case Study
Enterprise level management capabilities and around the clock support enabled this company to focus on their business growth.
Challenge: Clinical Integration
AHA Endorsement: IP Services
Healthcare Giant Accelerates into Future of Wireless
Case Study
Houston Methodist embraces gigabit Wi-Fi to enable proliferating wireless devices and high-bandwidth applications.
Challenge: Clinical Integration
AHA Endorsement: Cisco Wireless
Medical Center Supports Network Based Care
Case Study
Chilton Hospital builds infrastructure for the future with integrated wired and wireless solutions.
Challenge: Clinical Integration
AHA Endorsement: Cisco Wireless
Healthcare Software You Will Love
Article
RL6 is a comprehensive safety, quality and risk management solution that helps manage adverse events, from start to finish.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: RL Solutions
Healthcare Software You Will Love
Video
RL is home to RL6:Risk, an easy to use hospital incident reporting solution designed to help you take patient safety to the next level!
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: RL Solutions
Effects of Remote Patient Monitoring on Hospital Readmission Rates and Hypertension Improvement
Case Study
Read in-depth details on how certified home health agency nurses used Remote Patient Monitoring to reduce readmissions by 47%.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: AMC Health
Emory Healthcare Network Case Study
Case Study
Transforming Emorys Language Services Program into a Program of Excellence.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: CyraCom, LLC.
Aligning Managements Strategic Objectives with Healthcare Worker Perceptions a Measuring Tool
Tool
Tool to identify methods, actionable steps, and best practices to help achieve desired strategic initiatives.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Vestagen Technical Textiles, Inc.
Take AIM Engagement delivers: Methods, actionable steps, and best practices to help achieve initiatives
Flyer
The TAKE AIM Engagement identifies opportunities for augmenting and optimizing strategic initiatives with apparel programs, procedures and practices.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Vestagen Technical Textiles, Inc.
The Imprivata Report on the Economic Impact of Inefficient Communications in Healthcare
Whitepaper
This report provides the survey results of more than 400 healthcare providers in the U.S. about the typical communications process during three clinical workflows.
Challenge: Clinical Integration
AHA Endorsement: Imprivata
4 of the Factors that Impact Healthcare Worker Safety
Other
Infographic that outlines 4 of the Factors that Impact Healthcare Worker Safety including toll on the body, exposure, dedication and unpredictability is the norm.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Vestagen Technical Textiles, Inc.
Strategies to Boost Event Reporting
Other
This ebook provides helpful advice on how to approach: Promoting your event reporting system; Educating front-line staff on how to report events; Demonstrating the importance of event reporting.
Challenge: Care Continuum Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: RL Solutions
The Eight Steps to Changing Patient Behavior, that Pay Off in Dollars
FAQ Sheet
This document provides the most critical steps to lead to optimum patient engagement.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: YourCareUniverse
The Four Critical Components of Population Health Management
FAQ Sheet
This Tip Sheet identifies the critical components of effective population management for success.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: YourCareUniverse
Optimizing the Hospital Data Center, Leveraging IT Outsourcing to Increase Efficiency and Flexibility
Other
Learn how partnering with a full service solutions provider could allow you to optimize data center performance and improve efficiency, flexibility, care quality and reduce costs.
Challenge: Clinical Integration
AHA Endorsement: CareTech Solutions, Inc.
How Interpretation Should Be
Video
Language services have a huge impact on patient care….this video series provides a new perspective on the challenges faced by patients whose primary language isn’t English.
Challenge: Care Continuum Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: CyraCom, LLC.
Blue Mountain Health System Uses Equipment Financing to Prepare for ICD-10
Case Study
Learn how one health system got creative to guard against potential cash flow disruptions.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: First American Healthcare Finance
Phoenix Health Plan Improves Patient Safety and Quality of Care by Protecting Patient Information
Case Study
Find out how Phoenix Health Plan strengthened its HIPAA compliance program - helping it safeguard protected health information and improve patient safety.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: Clearwater Compliance
Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers Improve HCAHPS Scores and Responsiveness with Secure Messaging
Case Study
Learn how CHWC turned to Imprivata Cortext to replace legacy pagers, improve care quality, reduce overhead paging, and increase patient satisfaction rates.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: Imprivata
Customer Success Story: Secure Text Messaging Replaces Pagers at Beaufort Memorial Hospital
Case Study
Learn how this IT team mitigated potential insecure text messaging between clinicians while better managing its pager system.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: Imprivata
Ensuring HIPAA Compliance Among Inpatient, Outpatient Docs
Whitepaper
Learn how one of the largest non-profit health systems in New Jersey made its ambulatory providers HIPAA-and HITRUST-compliant.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: Imprivata
Imprivata Cortext: Secure Communications
Whitepaper
This IDC whitepaper describes those efficiency challenges Imprivata Cortext solves for a highly mobile workforce across multiple communications channels.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: Imprivata
Streamlining Clinical Communication Workflows
Other
This document visually describes four key clinical workflows that can be streamlined using the secure communications platform for healthcare.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: Imprivata
Critical Conversations on the Changing Health Environment: Patient Flow
Executive Summary
A Focused Dialogue on Tackling Patient Flow in a Value-Based, Population-Health-Focused World.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum Cultural Transformation
Critical Conversations on the Changing Health Environment: Population Health
Executive Summary
A focused dialogue on the need for major shifts in the way post-acute care is delivered.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
Partnering to Improve Quality and Safety: A Framework for Working with Patient and Family Advisors
Tool
Health Research & Educational Trust. (2015, March). Partnering to improve quality and safety: A framework for working with patient and family advisors. Chicago, IL: Health Research & Educational Trust. Accessed at www.hpoe.org
Challenge: Care Continuum Cultural Transformation
The Association Between Patient and Family Engagement Practices and Patient Experience
Tool
Health Research & Educational Trust. (2015, April). Patient and family engagement and patient satisfaction: Results of a national survey. Chicago, IL: Health Research & Educational Trust. Accessed at www.hpoe.org
Challenge: Care Continuum Cultural Transformation
Cisco Approach to Telehealth
Whitepaper
Telehealth is a key initiative for healthcare organizations today. This white paper details the reasons many organizations look to deploy telehealth, including trends and statistics.
Challenge: Clinical Integration
AHA Endorsement: Cisco Wireless
CheckMedic<sup>TM</sup> MedPass<sup>TM</sup> for Medical Staff
Flyer
Learn about expediting Phase I credentialing for clinicians with CheckMedic MedPass for Medical Staff from Verisys.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Verisys Corporation
CheckMedic<sup>TM</sup> for Physician Practice Groups
Flyer
Learn about expediting Phase I credentialing for clinicians with CheckMedicTM for Physician Practice Groups from Verisys.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Verisys Corporation
CheckMedic<sup>TM</sup> for HR
Flyer
Learn about expediting Phase I credentialing for clinicians with CheckMedicTM for HR from Verisys.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Verisys Corporation
CheckMedic<sup>TM</sup> for Physicians
Flyer
Learn about expediting Phase I credentialing for clinicians with CheckMedicTM for Physicians from Verisys.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Verisys Corporation
The Business Strategy Behind Workplace Wellness
Other
Learn the top 3 discussion points identified when business leaders consider the positive aspects of a workplace wellness program.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Interactive Health
How Employees Well-Being Scores Interact with Demographic Factors to Influence Risk
Other
This study specifically sought to understand how well-being segments and demographic variables interact in defining the risk of a hospital event in an employed population.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: Healthways
The Physician Leadership Model "
Flyer
The Physician Leadership Model creates versatile, transformational physician leaders who lead their self and their teams to strategic results.
AHA Endorsement: The Physician Leadership Institute
Building Strategic Post-Acute Care Partnerships
Whitepaper
Hospitals looking to successfully manage the full continuum of care should ensure that their strategy considers opportunities for alignment initiatives with their post-acute care partners.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: Healthways
Evaluation of the Relationship Between Individual Well-Being and Future Health Care Utilization and Cost
Other
Read how escalating health care expenditures highlight the need to identify modifiable predictors of short-term utilization and cost.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: Healthways
Equipment Financing and Bond Financing
Whitepaper
Learn how healthcare organizations are making the best use of equipment and bond financing in this time of change.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: First American Healthcare Finance
PLI 7-Step Strategy for Physician Alignment & Engagement
Tool
Engage your staff in this 7-step strategy to drive collaboration and improve leadership as well as outcomes across the clinical focus areas.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: The Physician Leadership Institute
Building a Leadership Team for the Health Care Organization of the Future
Other
This guide provides a detailed look at how health care organizations are responding to changes within the field and building the teams needed to achieve their strategic priorities.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
Leadership Toolkit for Redefining the H: Engaging Trustees and Communities
Tool
Hospitals are using the Triple Aim to guide them as they look at different paths and approaches to redefine themselves and further develop strategies and business models for sustainability.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
Nicklaus Childrens Hospital
Case Study
Ensuring compliance with HIPAA-HITECH Security Rule requirements, and preparing to readily and comprehensively satisfy OIG requests in an upcoming audit.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: Clearwater Compliance
SHIELDS for Families
Case Study
Learn how SHIELDS for Families successfully identified existing security and compliance gaps and prioritized a remediation plan.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: Clearwater Compliance
Executive Brief: Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital
Case Study
Hospital Adds $1.5 Million of New Operating Income and Slashes Length of Stay by Applying New Patient Flow Processes
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: MEDHOST
Executive Brief: OnBase Clinical Content Strategy
Flyer
Strategically manage clinical content across its life cycle while providing clinicians and staff across the enterprise a single point of access for clinical content.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: Hyland Software
2015 Plan Sponsor of the Year: Mary Washington Healthcare
Other
AS AN organization with a 115-year history, nonprofit Mary Washington Healthcare in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has seen employee benefit trends come and go since well before the creation of Social Security.
AHA Endorsement: Transamerica
HCAHPS Surveys & Limited English Proficient Patients: 3 Simple Questions
Tool
Learn how gathering the answers to three simple questions while reviewing how HCAHPS Surveys are being administered to LEP patients can be highly productive.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: CyraCom, LLC.
The Cost of Miscommunication: Solving the Puzzle of Readmission Rates
Whitepaper
This article covers the Affordable Care Act's penalization of unnecessary hospital readmissions, and the reasons Limited-English-Proficient patients are overrepresented in those readmissions.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: CyraCom, LLC.
Predicting Future Hospital Admissions: Can We Focus Intensive Readmission Avoidance Efforts More Effectively?
Whitepaper
The purpose of this study was to develop and test two predictive models to identify patients at risk for readmission that would be applicable in different settings based on the available patient data.
Challenge: Care Continuum Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Healthways
The Second Curve of Population Health
Other
The tactics described in this guide provide a framework for initiatives that hospitals and care systems could pursue to develop an institutional infrastructure that supports population health.
Geisinger Health System: 44% Lower Risk of 30-day Readmission
Case Study
This case study outlines the methods by which Geisinger Health System identified and fixed gaps in post-discharge care, using telehealth. Comprehensive Case Management with IVR yielded dramatic results.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: AMC Health
Geisinger Health System: Reducing Readmissions for Medicare Advantage Patients
Case Study
Geisinger Health System wanted to cut all-cause 30-day hospital readmissions among Medicare Advantage patients.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: AMC Health
HealthPartners Medical Group: Improving BP Control in Patients with Hypertension
Case Study
This case study outlines the methods by which HealthPartners Medical Group improved BP control in Patients with Hypertension, through remote monitoring plus pharmacist case management.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: AMC Health
Special HIPAA Requirements for Group Health Plans and their Sponsors
Whitepaper
This whitepaper provides outstanding information regarding how Group Health Plans and Plan Sponsors can achieve compliance with the HIPAA Omnibus Rule
Challenge: Clinical Integration
AHA Endorsement: Clearwater Compliance
HIPAA Compliance Now Even More Critical for Managed Care Organizations
Whitepaper
This whitepaper provides outstanding information regarding how Managed Care Organizations can achieve compliance with the HIPAA Omnibus Rule.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Clearwater Compliance
HIPAA Privacy Requirements for BAs
Whitepaper
The focus of the paper is to help business associates, and their subcontractors, determine which requesrements of the Privacy Rule pertain to them.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Clearwater Compliance
Operationalize Your HIPAA Compliance Program
Article
Introducing Clearwater Compliance; a partner you can trust to help you become and remain HIPAA-HITECH compliant.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Clearwater Compliance
Know the Difference: The Future of Patient Friendly Billing
Flyer
This flyer displays the future of patient friendly billing. Highlighted are the BeautifulBillTM, patient statistics, and quotes.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
Avatar Solutions' Proven Four-Step Process For Successfully Conducting Employee Engagement Surveys
Article
Learn this proven survey process for successfully conducting an employee engagement survey that will deliver actionable data you can use to create positive change.
Challenge: Care Continuum Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Avatar Solutions
WalgreensWellTransitions: Over 50% Reduction of Hospital Readmissions in two years at Texas based Health System
Case Study
Learn how Two Valley Baptist Health System hospitals reduced readmission rates by 51.1% from 2011 to 2013 by changing their approach to readmission management and by implementing Walgreens WellTransitions program.1
Challenge: Care Continuum Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: Walgreens
Report: Retirement Plan Trends in Today's Healthcare Market - 2014
Other
The report provides analysis to guide healthcare plan sponsors and their advisors as they benchmark their organizations in many areas of plan design and management, in order to critically evaluate opportunities for improvement.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Transamerica
ValleyCare Health System Success Story
Case Study
Happier patients, higher collections, lower costs. ValleyCare improved cash flow by $1.8 million and achieved 78% patient satisfaction.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
El Camino Hospital Success Story
Case Study
Consumer friendly billing in action - El Camino achieved 56% self-service payments, 2.5X ROI and 82% patient satisfaction.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
Effective Communication Begins with Purposeful Plan Design
Whitepaper
Learn why your success in helping your participants prepare financially for retirement starts with the careful and thoughtful review of your plan design.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Transamerica
Samaritan Medical Center Chooses Transamerica for DB Plan After Success with 401(k) Plan
Case Study
Learn how Samaritan delivered an improved 401(k) fund line-up, lower plan costs, and a more equitable participant fee structure through Fund Revenue Equalization.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Transamerica
Targeted communications and strong on-the-ground support make the difference
Case Study
Read how this organization kept participants on target in their retirement goals despite challenging economic times.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Transamerica
Award-Winning Campaign Advances Retirement Readiness
Case Study
Learn what process Essentia Health went through that led to thier 2014 first place Pensions & Investments Eddy Award.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Transamerica
Fiduciary Best Practices: Taking a prudent approach to plan management
Whitepaper
In this paper, we will present a summary of best practices that plan sponsors and fiduciaries can employ to ensure they are meeting their obligations.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Transamerica
Mergers and Acquisitions: Key considerations for retirement plan conversion
Whitepaper
This article examines the special considerations of retirement plan conversion due to M&A; activity and offers best practices for achieving a seamless transition.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Transamerica
Your Hospitals Path to the Second Curve: Integration and Transformation
Other
This report outlines strategies to help hospitals and care systems accelerate organizational transformation as they move from volume- to value-based systems and business models.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
Development and Evolution of a Best-Practice Hospital-Based Care Transitions Program
Case Study
This case study outlines how Healthways can help avoid hospital readmissions and improve patient care.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: Healthways
Operation Momma: Crouse Hospital, Syracuse, NY
Case Study
Learn how Crouse Hospital leveraged Avatar Health Care Survey Tools to achieve it's Goal: To reinforce the importance of understanding the view of the patient at all times.
Challenge: Care Continuum Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Avatar Solutions
Avatar Solutions Survey Offerings
Flyer
Learn more about the complete survey offerings from this endorsed solution provider through this tool.
AHA Endorsement: Avatar Solutions
MEDHOST PatientFlow HD Product Details
Flyer
Learn how PatientFlow HD delivers unprecedented house-wide transparency and visibility.
Challenge: Care Continuum Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: MEDHOST
Healthcare Informatics: Creating a Clearer Picture of Patient Flow
Article
Learn how Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital generated meaningful business, and identified financial, patient care and workflow improvements.
AHA Endorsement: MEDHOST
Bridging the Gap: Chart
Case Study
Read how centralized event reorting helps Chart member-hospitals collaborate and improve patient safety.
Challenge: Care Continuum Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: RL Solutions
Building a Just Culture: Wellspan Health
Case Study
Learn how Wellspan Health implemented risk management software to help promote system-wide just culture.
Challenge: Care Continuum Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: RL Solutions
CMS Never Events: Research Report
Whitepaper
Exploring the connection between tracking near misses, organizational learning and reducing never events in health care organizations
Challenge: Care Continuum Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: RL Solutions
The Good Catch: Bridgepoint Health
Case Study
Read how Bridgeport Health's customized good catch form increased their reporting by almost 400%.
Challenge: Care Continuum Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: RL Solutions
The New Kid on the Block: Arkansas Children's Hospital
Case Study
Learn how Arkansas Children's Hospital overcame the challenges of new staff and a new event reporting system.
Challenge: Care Continuum Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: RL Solutions
RiseSmart Health System Customer Success Story
Case Study
Learn about the success of this innovative approach to delivering a redeployment solution for an integrated health care delivery system.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: RiseSmart
Top 10 Reasons to Think About Wellness as a Corporate Strategy
Flyer
Learn the top 10 reasons why your organization should make wellness a strategic initiative this year to lower medical costs and improve the health of employees.
Challenge: Care Continuum Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Interactive Health
AHA Solutions: We Award the AHA Endorsement
Article
We identify challenges. We endorse solutions. We collaborate with innovative companies. Your Partner to transform health care.
Roundtable Executive Summary: Population Health, Employee Wellness and Employer Accountability
Executive Summary
Learn how to keep your workforce and bottom line healthy.
Challenge: Care Continuum Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Interactive Health
5 Places in Your Hospital Where ECM Can Help
Article
This ebook will give you five key processes where ECM can have the greatest impact in the shortest amount of time.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: Hyland Software
Five Ways to Improve the Healthcare User Experience
Article
Five steps you can take to manage content, each of which will make life easier for the people who rely on your IT systems to help them do their jobs.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: Hyland Software
Allina Completes an EHR with Enterprise Content Management
Case Study
To work better and faster from the bedside to the back office, Allina chose the OnBase enterprise content management (ECM) suite.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: Hyland Software
Cleveland Clinic realizes local and global interoperability
Case Study
Cleveland Clinic turned to the OnBase ECM software suite to integrate clinical content like EKGs, photos, paper charts, forms, insurance information.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: Hyland Software
HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 - the Role of OnBase
Article
Meet the scanning needs that Stage 7 demands with OnBase, and augment and connect your existing applications.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: Hyland Software
North York General Hospital Delivers the Complete EHR
Case Study
Learn how North York General was able to harvest he Power of Enterprise Content Management: Delivering the Complete EHR across the Hospital.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: Hyland Software
Skagit Valley Hospital Increased Dependability
Case Study
Learn how OnBase from Hyland Software supplied Skagit with the increased speed and quality it required.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: Hyland Software
Language Services as Part of the Patient-Centered Culture
Case Study
With a large and diverse population, learn how Palomar Health developed a successful three-pronged approach to their language services program.
Challenge: Care Continuum Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: CyraCom, LLC.
The Affordable Care Act & Limited English Proficient Populations: Key Implications for Healthcare Providers
Whitepaper
Learn about the cumulative effect the Affordable Care Act's major incentive for health care organizations can have on providing the most effective services possible for LEP patients before, during, and after treatment.
Challenge: Care Continuum Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: CyraCom, LLC.
HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 - The role of OnBase
Flyer
With OnBase meet HIMSS stage 7 with an automated process, hybrid capture solution, and capture documents from ancillary systems.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: Hyland Software
WESTMED Medical: Leveraging Enterprise Content Management
Case Study
Hyland Software OnBase ECM enabled WESTMED to streamline paperless processes across departments, delivering greater value to the entire organization.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: Hyland Software
Stabilizing IT Expenditures While Maximizing Productivity
Article
Learn how leasing enables health care organizations to maximize both their IT operations and their balance sheet.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: First American Healthcare Finance
Look Before You Leap Into an Equipment Lease
Article
Leasing IT equipment has become increasingly popular in recent years as organizations recognize the benefits of regular technology upgrades. Learn best practices.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: First American Healthcare Finance
iPads and Hospitals
Article
As technology becomes more prevalent in every aspect of patient care, hospitals are looking for new ways to incorporate the best equipment as a tool to streamline operations and improve the patient experience.
Challenge: Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: First American Healthcare Finance
Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center's Improved Performance Pays Off After First Audit
Case Study
Director of quality management, Chris Bliersbach, cuts costs while increasing productivity and compliance with the implementation of PolicyTech.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: NAVEX Global
Florida Hospital: Language Interpretation "the Cornerstone" of Diversity and Inclusion
Case Study
Hear how language services, including education, cultural competency, diversity and inclusion programs, increased care outcomes and satisfaction for patients with limited English proficiency.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: CyraCom, LLC.
Beyond BYOD to the Optimal Work Your Way Experience in Healthcare
Article
Learn how the viral adoption of consumer tablets forces health care CIOs to rethink their mobile technology strategies.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Cisco Wireless
Cisco Connected Healthcare Overview
Article
Learn how Cisco is transforming the way people connect, access information and collaborate through networked technologies.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Cisco Wireless
Cedars-Sinai Health System Cures the Policy Management Ills
Case Study
This study reviews the document management challenges faced by this hospital before installing PolicyTech's Policy and Procedure Manager (PPM).
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: NAVEX Global
EMQ FamiliesFirst Links Performance and Learning to Help Children and Families in Crisis
Video
EMQ FamiliesFirst is California's largest and most comprehensive social service agency for children and families. With the deployment of Halogen Software's award-winning talent management suite, EMQ FamiliesFirst has become a more agile organization that is better able to respond to client needs.
Challenge: Care Continuum Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Halogen Software
Hospital Saves $50,000 by Modernization of Employee Performance Management System
Video
Cabell Huntington Hospital modernized its employee performance management (EPM) system in order to upgrade a redundant paper-based system that failed to meet its needs and was costly in terms of time and money.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Halogen Software
Staying Competitive and Cultivating a High Performance Workforce in Today's Healthcare Environment
Media
King's Daughters Medical Center is using Halogen eAppraisal to successfully compete with other area medical centers for skilled talent, and reduce time spent on manual HR tasks allowing more focus on strategy.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Halogen Software
Florida Hospital: Reducing Call Time and Increasing Quality in Language
Case Study
Florida Hospital (FH) decided to officially implement CyraCom's language services, citing interpretation quality and reduced call time as major factors.
Challenge: Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: CyraCom, LLC.
Dependent Eligibility Audit: El Camino Hospital
Case Study
In 2009, El Camino Hospital partnered with HMS to conduct a review of all enrolled dependents in their health and welfare plans. Learn how they were able to recoup the investment cost in 11 days.
Challenge: Care Continuum Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: HMS Employer Solutions
Are the Dependents on Your Organization's Health Plan Eligible for Coverage?
Other
Few strategies offer employers and plan sponsors the opportunity for the immediate and substantial impact on health care costs than the dependent eligibility audit.
Challenge: Care Continuum Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
Meet John P. Benson, Chief Operating Officer, Verisys
Article
Read this feature article in the October 2011 issue of Compliance Today Magazing.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: Verisys Corporation
Banner Health: Lowering Risk and Providing Exceptional Patient Care
Case Study
Learn how BH provides a multipronged approach to language services and coordinates its fforts through a comprehensive Language Access Plan.
Challenge: Care Continuum Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: CyraCom, LLC.
Hospitals and Care Systems of the Future
Other
AHA Committee on Performance Improvement identifies must-do, priority strategies and core organizational competencies organizations should establish to remain successful.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum Financial Sustainability Cultural Transformation
Winning the EHR Battle with Enterprise Content Management
Case Study
Learn how Sentara Healthcare created a comprehensive EHR solution. This article is based on a webinar presented by Hyland Software in May 2011.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum Financial Sustainability
AHA Endorsement: Hyland Software
Specialized Accident Insurance Protection
Other
A cost-effective option for insuring hospital volunteers and student nurses injured performing authorized volunteer and student nurse activities.
Challenge: Care Continuum Cultural Transformation
AHA Endorsement: The Allen J. Flood Companies, Inc.
The Influence of Employee Satisfaction on Patient Satisfaction and Safety
Whitepaper
This whitepaper builds the case for automated talent management in health care
AHA Endorsement: Halogen Software
Background Checks: More Restrictions, New Challenges
Article
The need for background checks is clear, but the type of checks health care providers can conduct and how that information is used is less clear.
AHA Endorsement: Certiphi Screening Incorporated
Background Checks: An Essential Risk Management Tool
Article
Background checks on all new hires and a program of regular inquiry about possible staff sanctions and criminal behavior limits employer liability.
AHA Endorsement: Certiphi Screening Incorporated
PolicyTech Slashes Six Months Off San Juan Regional Medical Center's Policy Process
Case Study
PolicyTech helped SJRMC connect its policies to its seven outside health care facilities and improve its policy management system.
Challenge: Clinical Integration
AHA Endorsement: NAVEX Global
Growing Content Management into an Enterprise Strategy
Case Study
When Sharp began implementing Cerner Millennium in its hospitals in 2006, it soon discovered that OnBase delivered value across all departments, including enabling the EMRs to provide clinicians with a complete patient record.
Challenge: Clinical Integration Care Continuum
AHA Endorsement: Hyland Software
