Considerations on Healthcare

We all want excellent healthcare, but we also want value for money. Today, in particular, with huge pressure on budgets, we need to try to get much more for much less. That means tough decisions, and that makes good information more important than ever.

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Poor financial data... from BJHCIM

PLICS questions and answers from BJHCIM

Intelligent Response from e-Health Insider

And they're off by Daloni Carlisle from e-Health Insider

Business intelligence is the key from PublicTechnology.net
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      • A tale of two stroke patients
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      • Counting the deaths that count
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      • What's the White Paper going to mean for Healthcar...
      • Showing the pathway forward
      • Caution: software development under way
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      • Semmelweis: mortality and benchmarking
      • Indicators are only useful if they’re useful indic...
      • It’s the patient level that counts
      • Navigating the Pathways and Protocols of Care
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      • Healthcare needs data warehouses. But what for?
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      • Patient Level Costing - not just for geeks
      • Mental Health may show the way to Healthcare sanit...

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