Availability of primary care team members can improve teamwork and readiness for change
Conclusions: Ensuring that members perceive that their teammates are routinely available to them may improve readiness for implementing organizational changes like adopting patient-centered medical home models. Given that better teamwork only partially explained the availability–readiness relationship, additional research to identify the mechanisms through which consistent team member availability increases change readiness could lend insight into how to more effectively support clinicians and staff undergoing complex organizational changes. (Source: Health Care Management Review)
Source: Health Care Management Review - September 8, 2016 Category: American Health Tags: Features Source Type: research
Politics and managing health care organizations
No abstract available (Source: Health Care Management Review)
Source: Health Care Management Review - September 8, 2016 Category: American Health Tags: Department: Editorial Source Type: research
Physician report of industry gifts and quality of care
Background: Physician financial conflict of interest is a concern in the delivery of medicine because of its possible influence on the cost and the quality of patient care. There has been an extensive discussion of the ethical, economic, and legal aspects of this issue but little direct empirical evidence of its magnitude or effects.
Methodology: A nationally representative survey (n = 4,720) was used to empirically examine physician self-report of receipt of financial gifts from the pharmaceutical and medical devices industry and its association with their ability to provide quality care.
Findings: Results indicate that...
Source: Health Care Management Review - June 4, 2016 Category: American Health Tags: Features Source Type: research
Does electronic health record use improve hospital financial performance? Evidence from panel data
Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the impact of electronic health record (EHR) adoption on hospital financial performance.
Methodology/Approach: We constructed a longitudinal panel using data from the three secondary sources: (a) the 2007–2010 American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey, (b) the 2007–2010 AHA Annual Survey Information Technology Supplement, and (c) the 2007–2011 Medicare Cost Reports from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Because potential financial benefits attributable to EHR adoption may take some time to accrue, we ran regressions with lags of 1 and 2 years that inclu...
Source: Health Care Management Review - June 4, 2016 Category: American Health Tags: Features Source Type: research
Knowledge management, health information technology and nurses’ work engagement
Background: Knowledge management (KM) extends the health information technology (HIT) literature by addressing its impact on creating knowledge by sharing and using the knowledge of health care professionals in hospitals.
Purpose: The aim of the study was to provide insight into how HIT affects nurses’ explicit and tacit knowledge of their ongoing work processes and work engagement.
Methodology: Data were collected from 74 nurses in four wards of a Dutch hospital via a paper-and-pencil survey using validated measurement instruments. In a quasiexperimental research design, HIT was introduced in the two experimental ward...
Source: Health Care Management Review - June 4, 2016 Category: American Health Tags: Features Source Type: research
