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A Successful and Sustainable Health System – How to Get There from Here
IOM President Recommends Smoothing of Patient Flow
Experts: Avoid status quo in hospital operations to improve care, finances
Melinda Caliendo, NJBIZ
Engineering a cure for hospital inefficiencies
Mark Taylor, Philadephia Inquirer
HHS gives millions to bring partnership agenda to Pa., N.J.
John George, Philadelphia Business Journal
NJHA Affiliate Wins $7 Million Federal Contract to Launch Statewide Health Improvement Effort
NJHA will work with the Institute for Healthcare Optimization to provide “flow management” methodologies designed to reduce healthcare professionals’ stress and shortages, improve hospital operational efficiency, improve healthcare quality and reduce costs.
Rapid Response Teams No Substitute for Wrong Bed Assignment
Cheryl Clark, HealthLeaders Media
Rapid Response Teams: Best Option for Emergency Care?
ABC News
Fixing patient flow can obviate the need for rapid response teams on many occasions
Healthcare and traffic management
Executive Healthcare Magazine
Foreign lessons in hospital efficiency
Eugene Litvak on BBC / PRI
No waiting: A simple prescription that could dramatically improve hospitals – and American health care
Scott Allen, Globe Staff, The Boston Globe