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[more »](https://blog.chartis.com/blog/optimism-bloomed-at-the-economist-health-care-forum/) [![](https://blog.chartis.com/hubfs/Icons/blogleadership.png)](https://blog.chartis.com/blog/community-hospitals-seven-tips-to-encourage-innovation/) ## [Community Hospitals - Seven Tips to Encourage Innovation](https://blog.chartis.com/blog/community-hospitals-seven-tips-to-encourage-innovation/) Community Hospitals "independent hospitals of ~300 beds and less have to tackle the same issues as their big-bed brothers or health system sisters. They must lower costs while improving quality, do more with fewer resources, and affiliate effectively with other providers. But they don't have the scale or corporate structure to help with research, data mining, standardization, group purchasing and the like to drive efficiencies. [more »](https://blog.chartis.com/blog/community-hospitals-seven-tips-to-encourage-innovation/) [![](https://blog.chartis.com/hubfs/Icons/blogrural.png)](https://blog.chartis.com/blog/just-how-well-do-rural-hospitals-perform-in-the-new-healthcare/) ## [Just How Well Do Rural Hospitals Perform in the New Healthcare?](https://blog.chartis.com/blog/just-how-well-do-rural-hospitals-perform-in-the-new-healthcare/)   Misconceptions - if voiced long and loudly enough - will over time be interpreted as fact. And facts are what drive decisions, whether in the boardroom or on Capitol Hill. For some time now, rural and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) have been saddled with the notion that they are less efficient and adhere to lower standards of quality and patient satisfaction than their urban counterparts. But based on the results of our 2014 Rural Relevance Under Healthcare Reform Study released today, this notion can be challenged with empirical data. [more »](https://blog.chartis.com/blog/just-how-well-do-rural-hospitals-perform-in-the-new-healthcare/) [![](https://blog.chartis.com/hubfs/Icons/blogbenchmarking.png)](https://blog.chartis.com/blog/whats-taking-the-nurse-away-from-the-patient-bedside/) ## [What's Taking the Nurse Away from the Patient Bedside?](https://blog.chartis.com/blog/whats-taking-the-nurse-away-from-the-patient-bedside/) More than 100 nurses told us in a recent survey on nursing obstacles and inefficiencies. A ViewPoints post from iVantage's Michelle Gray Bernhardt. [more »](https://blog.chartis.com/blog/whats-taking-the-nurse-away-from-the-patient-bedside/) [![](https://blog.chartis.com/hubfs/Icons/blogleadership.png)](https://blog.chartis.com/blog/new-healthcare-new-security/) ## [New Healthcare. New Security.](https://blog.chartis.com/blog/new-healthcare-new-security/) The changing requirements of the New Healthcare extend far beyond operations and planning. Hospitals large and small are being forced to reexamine their security postures in response to new regulations (like the HITECH Act) and increased scrutiny around data breaches. Long gone are the days when breaches could be dealt with discreetly " nowadays, they are national events that can linger in the public's mind for months, or even years. [more »](https://blog.chartis.com/blog/new-healthcare-new-security/) [All posts](https://blog.chartis.com/blog/all) 0 Comments ### Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked \* ### Subscribe to Email Updates [All Resources](https://www.ivantagehealth.com/healthcare-analytics-resources/) [All Posts](https://www.ivantagehealth.com/category/viewpoints/) ### Recent Posts ### POWERING PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT™ iVantage combines public and private data with proprietary analytics and modeling to drive clinical and financial performance improvement, strategic planning, market assessment and contract optimization. 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