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Articles in Feb, 2006 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• CMS
• Stable outlook predicted for hospitals in 2006
• The newest vital sign
• Mobile hospital provides care when disaster strikes: when disaster strikes, a well-thought-out plan goes a long way in a successful deployment of emergency services
  by Carole J. Bolster
• Centers of excellence: big opportunities, big dividends: no topic in the field of healthcare growth strategies is as hot as centers of excellence
  by Alan M. Zuckerman
• James E. Massey, CPA
• Majority of U.S. health leaders reject fully taxpayer-funded universal healthcare system: study
• Reader poll
  by Cris Julian
• Meeting of the minds on universal EHR adoption
• Teaming up for medical necessity compliance
  by Linda Bosenbark
• HIPAA privacy audit tool
  by Linda S. Ross
• Interest in nursing careers on upswing—yet nursing schools forced to turn away more than 30,000 applicants in 2005
• Nearly three-quarters of physicians continue to accept Medicare patients
• If you build them, will they come?
• Financing the Future II, Report 4: joint ventures with physicians and other partners executive summary
• A new look at informed consent: automating the informed consent process helps hospitals contain costs and minimize malpractice exposure—and improves patient care and safety in the process
  by Neil Baum
• When EHRs are A-OK: can an electronic health record benefit your organization's revenue cycle?
  by Margret Amatayakul
• Washington Post series on reprocessed medical devices raises quality concerns
• Overheard
• On the road to a national performance measurement system: it's one thing to conceive of a pay-for-performance system in health care; it's quite another thing to set up the system so it will work
  by Gail R. Wilensky
• Process mapping the revenue cycle
• Sandrae Lehman
• Hospitals' patient safety progress too slow: report
• CFOs brace themselves for increased price negotiations—this time, by consumers
• Outside IT the case for full IT outsourcing: study findings indicate many hospitals are turning to full IT outsourcing to achieve IT excellence. What's the best approach for your organization?
  by Karen Ondo
• Richard L. Slater, CPA
• 'To make a difference'
• Selecting technology to rev up your revenue cycle: does your revenue cycle need revving up? Technology could be just the thing to make it go "vroom"!
  by Scott A. Pillittere
• David A. Williams, FHFMA, CPA: HFMA helps you prepare for the unexpected
  by David A. Williams
• Web-based claims management systems: communication is paramount to expediting claims. A claims management system that operates online can improve the provider-payer relationship
  by Chris Cousins
• Learning to look forward: are you looking through the windshield or the rearview mirror?
  by Michael P. Freed
• Jan Kalgaard
• Ann Mond Johnson: simplifying the complex
• Why information security belongs on the CFO's agenda
  by James Quinnild
• Steps to success for healthcare IT: advertisers in the technology issue of hfm magazine offer their thoughts
• Gary Marker
• Universal EHR by 2014? Is universal adoption of electronic health records possible in less than 10 years? What are the barriers? What is the role of government?
  by Richard L. Clarke
• Alisa Ray joins CCHIT as executive director, brings industry experience as certification pilot kicks off
• Financial concerns still most worrisome for hospital CEOs
• Without a trace
• The "write" choice: a primer on outsourcing transcription services: deciding whether to outsource transcription services and then, if you do, picking the right vendor are not decisions to be taken lightly. The consequences of a too-hasty decisio
  by Bryan F. Smith
• Calendar
• Federal register
• Hospital profits highest in six years
• Site seeing
• Steps toward an automated scorecard system: for an at-a-glance understanding of how your revenue cycle metrics are tracking, one of the best tools is a well-designed scorecard system
  by Mark Johnson
• Declining operating margins show U.S. hospitals still face challenges