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		<title>Taking the Next Steps Toward Meaningful Use</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raths D. The Path Ahead: Taking the Next Steps Toward Meaningful Use. Healthcare Informatics. December 20, 2011. &#8220;At about the same time this issue of Healthcare Informatics hits your inbox, so will the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Stage 2 of meaningful use under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act/Health Information Technology for Economic and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahraindustrynews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14220192&amp;post=1100&amp;subd=ahraindustrynews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Achieving Accountable Care — “It&#8217;s Not About the Bike”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walker J, McKethan A. Achieving Accountable Care — “It&#8217;s Not About the Bike”. N Engl J Med. 2012;366:e4. &#8220;In his memoir It&#8217;s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life, seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong argues that winning the world&#8217;s greatest bike race does not depend in the final analysis on sophisticated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahraindustrynews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14220192&amp;post=1095&amp;subd=ahraindustrynews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Keys to Building a Learning Organization</title>
		<link>http://ahraindustrynews.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/5-keys-to-building-a-learning-organization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bersin J. 5 Keys to Building a Learning Organization. Forbes. January 18, 2012. &#8220;We announced major news in the $135 billion worldwide corporate training industry this week: after four years of budget cuts, spending on corporate L&#38;D increased by 9.5% last year. This is a major uptick shift in corporate HR spending. Companies now realize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahraindustrynews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14220192&amp;post=1090&amp;subd=ahraindustrynews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>High-Paying Career Opportunities for Cath Lab Professionals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maloney T. High-Paying Career Opportunities for Cath Lab Professionals. Cath Lab Digest. January 6, 2012. &#8220;Despite a sputtering economy, nationwide opportunities for cath lab professionals to earn higher than average wages exist, with the best-paying positions in the western United States, according to findings from a recent survey. This is welcomed news despite cath labs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahraindustrynews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14220192&amp;post=1088&amp;subd=ahraindustrynews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Positive Intelligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AHRA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Achor S. Positive Intelligence. Harvard Business Review. Jan/Feb 2012. &#8220;Research shows that when people work with a positive mind-set, performance on nearly every level—productivity, creativity, engagement—improves. Yet happiness is perhaps the most misunderstood driver of performance. For one, most people believe that success precedes happiness. &#8216;Once I get a promotion, I’ll be happy,&#8217; they think. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahraindustrynews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14220192&amp;post=1085&amp;subd=ahraindustrynews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pointers for Optimizing Radiation Dose in Pediatric CT</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AHRA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Singh S, Kalra MK, Thrall JH, Mahesh M. Pointers for optimizing radiation dose in pediatric CT protocols. J Am Coll Radiol. 2012 January;9(1):77-79. [Abstract] According to recent estimates, close to 7 million to 8 million CT examinations were performed for various pediatric clinical indications per year in the United States. Children are normally more susceptible [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahraindustrynews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14220192&amp;post=1083&amp;subd=ahraindustrynews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ongoing Quality Improvement Journey: Next Stop, High Reliability</title>
		<link>http://ahraindustrynews.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/the-ongoing-quality-improvement-journey-next-stop-high-reliability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chassin MR, Loeb JM. The ongoing quality improvement journey: next stop, high reliability. Health Affairs. 2011 April;30(4):559-568. [Abstract] Quality improvement in health care has a long history that includes such epic figures as Ignaz Semmelweis, the nineteenth-century obstetrician who introduced hand washing to medical care, and Florence Nightingale, the English nurse who determined that poor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahraindustrynews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14220192&amp;post=1080&amp;subd=ahraindustrynews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When to Give Someone a Second Chance</title>
		<link>http://ahraindustrynews.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/when-to-give-someone-a-second-chance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Schmitt J. When to Give Someone a Second Chance. Bloomberg Businessweek. January 3, 2012. &#8220;&#8216;Everyone deserves a second chance.&#8217; It’s a sentiment that embodies our deepest hopes: connection, achievement, and salvation&#8230; I’ve always believed people deserve one redo, a second chance when life goes back to how it was before you said or did something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahraindustrynews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14220192&amp;post=1078&amp;subd=ahraindustrynews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Value-Based Purchasing: A Preview</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Klein E, Shoemaker P. Value-Based Purchasing: A Preview of Quality Scoring and Incentive Payments. hfm Magazine. January 2012. &#8220;The new VBP program will become effective for Medicare inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) discharges on Oct. 1, 2012. Under the VBP program, the Centers for Medicare &#38; Medicaid Services (CMS) will adjust each hospital’s inpatient payment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahraindustrynews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14220192&amp;post=1075&amp;subd=ahraindustrynews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trends in the Utilization of Outpatient Imaging after the DRA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Levin DC, Rao VM, Parker L. Trends in the utilization of outpatient advanced imaging after the Deficit Reduction Act. J Am Coll Radiol. 2012 January;9(1):27-32. [Abstract] Purpose After the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) took effect in 2007, there was concern that private office-based imaging facilities would close, that advanced imaging would shift to less convenient [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahraindustrynews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14220192&amp;post=1073&amp;subd=ahraindustrynews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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