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Positioning Your Hospital for Brighter Days
Between the economy and expected health care reform, hospitals are entering a new era of uncertainty. How should you plan for the next year-or decade?

Features
Clinical Management
Hospitals Rethink their Role - Asthma Care
Geri Aston
Proactively reaching out to patients and families can cut down on emergencies-and costly ED visits

Communication
Time to Tweet?
Haydn Bush
Twitter is popping up in hospitals from the C-suite to the OR. Whether it's a savvy marketing tool or a fad that will swiftly fizzle is an open question.

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HIPAA and HITECH: Tighter Control of Patient Data
Maureen McKinney
Stimulus payments for electronic health records add another task to providers' plates: beefing up privacy practices

Economy
Health Care Investor Conference
Alden Solovy
Frank Talk, Financial Rigor

CMO Roundtable
Why the Hospital-Physician Staffing Structure Must Change
Lee Ann Runy
Create incentives? Employ docs? Put quality measures in contracts? Everything is on the table, panelists say.
Departments
InBox
Will Your EHR be 'Meaningful' by 2011?, Taking the Guesswork Out of Scheduling Surgeries, Quotables, Staffing Watch - June 2009, More Than Ever, Big Donors Want to See Value for Their Dollars, HUD Financing Program Gives Hospitals Access, Employees Generate Recession-Busting Ideas.
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Business Watch, datadig.
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Letters to the Editor
Recent Research
Quality Center Update

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Lessons from the Credit Crisis
Lee Ann Runy

Capital Challenge
Improving Trust and Accountability Through Transparency
   
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