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Financial Oversight, Care Delivery, Workforce
Century Club Growing
Century Club Growing
Number of Americans 100 years old and older:
1980: 15,000
2000: 50,281
Delivery System Transformation, Financial Oversight, Governance Effectiveness, Care Delivery, Quality & Patient Safety, Strategic Planning, Issues & Trends
How many new cancer cases will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year?
Cancer Forecast
1,685,210 new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed in the U.S. this year.
595,690 people are expected to die in the U.S. this year.
Delivery System Transformation, Financial Oversight, Governance Effectiveness, Nurses, Operational Excellence, Care Delivery, Physician Workforce, Strategic Planning, Leveraging Technology, Issues & Trends, Workforce
Using predictive analytics to make the most use of Big Data
Is there a more intimidating phrase out there today than Big Data? It sounds like some sort of bully. Oh-oh, avert your eyes, Big Data is swaggering this way.
Governance Effectiveness
New members of the AHAs Committee on Governance
The American Hospital Association announced appointments to the 2016 Committee on Governance, a specialty committee of the board that provides input for the AHA’s policy development, leads involvement of hospital trustees in grassroots advocacy, provides advice on trustee initiatives and enhances involvement of trustees in the AHA.
Margaret Wagner Dahl is the 2016 COG chair and Andrew M. Stern is chair-elect.
Governance Effectiveness, Nurses, Operational Excellence, Care Delivery, Physician Workforce, Quality & Patient Safety, Strategic Planning, Issues & Trends, Workforce
Data about obesity, schizophrenia, patient lies
Our Obesity Problem
36.5% of American adults are obese.
Here’s how it breaks down by age.
Delivery System Transformation, Financial Oversight, Governance Effectiveness, Operational Excellence, Strategic Planning, Leveraging Technology, Issues & Trends
Two to get started
When you agreed to serve on the board of a hospital, you probably knew that health care was changing. But I bet you didn't anticipate how sweeping that transformation would be — from how providers are reimbursed to how and where care is delivered; from medical technology that's continuously evolving to breakthrough treatments for all kinds of diseases; from skyrocketing drug prices to the rise of consumerism.
Delivery System Transformation, Nurses, Operational Excellence, Care Delivery, Quality & Patient Safety, Strategic Planning, Leveraging Technology, Issues & Trends, Workforce
Health care data on infant mortality, online health information, nurses, drunk driving
Infant mortality hits record low
The U.S. mortality rate fell 2.3% in 2014, to a record low 582.1 deaths per 100,000 live births. The drop was led by a 13.5% decline in deaths from respiratory illness.
Delivery System Transformation, Strategic Planning
Heroes All
Whenever something truly terrible happens on a large scale somewhere in our nation — whether it’s Newtown, Boston, Charleston, San Bernardino or one of the hundreds of other communities shaken in recent years by acts of human cruelty and violence — our editors and writers always look for the hospital angle. We report on how the local hospital immediately goes into crisis mode by sending staff to the scene, freeing up the emergency department, and making sure there are enough beds, supplies and personnel to meet the awful challenge.
Delivery System Transformation, Governance Effectiveness, Strategic Planning, Leveraging Technology, Issues & Trends
HIMSS conference Feb. 29-May 4 in Las Vegas
More than 40,000 health care information management professionals, clinicians, executives and vendors from around the world will attend HIMSS annual conference and exhibition Feb. 29-March 4 in Las Vegas. Peyton Manning, the National Football League’s five-time most valuable player, will present the closing keynote address. Visit www.himssconference.org.