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Cover Story
Shared Decision-Making: Giving the Patient a Say. No, Really.
Lola Butcher
After decades of slow acceptance, shared decision-making is becoming a pivotal part of the transition to a value-driven delivery system.

Features
Staffing issues
Generations in the Worplace: Who Will Lead Your Hospital?
Laura Putre
A painful vacuum looms as baby boom execs retire without preparing a new generation of leaders

The Interview
Fueling Change in Medical Education
Paul Barr
A Q&A with Susan Skochelak, M.D., who's leading the American Medical Association's $10 million hunt for ways to change physician education for the better.

Staffing issues
Clinical Management: A Focus on Heart Failure
Geri Aston
Reaching way beyond their old acute care boundaries, hospitals cut readmissions forheart failure patients

Special report
Investing in Value-Based Care
Our expert writers explain how health care providers define value and achieve value, and why that matters to the capital markets community.

HPOE
Eliminating CAUTI: Crucial Support for Your Safety Improvement Journey
Jenna Rabideaux


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Value-based leadership
This foldout section looks at the seven steps to a value-structured hospital, 10 must-d0 strategies for thriving in the new health care era, and what new skills management, physicians and trustees should have.

Connecting the Continuum
John Morrissey


Expert Panel Discussion on The Road to CPOE
Expert CIOs and CMIOs share their experiences with the planning and implementation of CPOE.

Expert Panel Discussion on Bio-Med and the CIO
Hospital information systems forging a link between biomedical engineering and the CIO.

H&HN Web Exclusive

H&HN's April cover story examines whether hospitals are prepared to make the jump to bundled payment. Also in this issue, American Hospital Association Chairman Benjamin Chu, M.D., discusses progress the field is making in transforming care delivery and preaches prudence in the ongoing budget debate. Running time: 3:40.

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H&HN Most Wired

The road to meaningful use of health information technology is riddled with detours, potholes and yield signs. Yet the 2012 H&HN Most Wired Survey proves that hospitals with well-crafted and well-mapped plans can motor their way toward successful adoption. A record number of hospitals earned Most Wired status in this, the 14th, annual survey, which gauges how organizations are planning to utilize and secure IT across the entire enterprise.

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