Posted on August 24th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
Does your hospital have a social media policy? And if so, does it extend to employee use of sites not hosted by your organization?
One thing I’ve noticed while perusing hospital social media policies that were lurking on the web is that most seem to refer only to terms and conditions that apply to medical center-sponsored [...]
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Filed under: Career, Information Technology, Management, Privacy
Posted on August 16th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
A NEW poll has revealed almost half of Australian women claim to have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace.
And almost two-thirds, or 62 per cent, felt companies were not supportive of women making an allegation of sexual harassment.
The poll of about 500 women was carried out by cosmetics company The Heat Group, mX reported.
The release [...]
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Posted on August 8th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
Holidays no longer involve completely severing ties with the office, making them less effective as a break from work.
LONDON: Two out of five managers return to work after a holiday feeling more stressed than when they left, says new research.
A survey of 2500 managers found that one in three worked while on leave, often responding [...]
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Filed under: Career, Health, Management
Posted on July 7th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
THE pay gap between men and women is set to vanish within 14 years among the professional classes, according to an analysis of the US workplace.
Women will, on average, earn more than men in careers such as law, medicine and academia by 2024, said Maddy Dychtwald, an expert on demographics.
In a new book, Influence, based [...]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
Most hospital executives, whether from an administrative or medical background, possess an innate leadership quality. But successful CEOs will tell you that running a hospital isn’t always about being stalwart and headstrong; learning when to bend and rely on others is just as critical.
Instead of keeping your eye fixed on one optimum goal, envision for [...]
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Posted on May 31st, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
If there was ever any question about whether EMRs would improve outcomes and save money, well, those questions persist.
The latest evidence that EMRs may not be all they’re cracked up to be comes from the journal Health Services Research, where a team of Arizona State University business professors report mixed results. The researchers studied the [...]
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Filed under: Health, Information Technology, Management
Posted on May 25th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
Health industry CIOs have a real opportunity to drive innovation and break down siloes of information in light of the federal government’s allocation of $467 million to electronic health records over the next two years.
Speaking at an AIIA CIO e-health forum in Sydney, CIO of St Vincent’s & Mater Health, Sydney, David Roffe, said one [...]
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Filed under: Information Technology, Management, Records Management
Posted on May 18th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
I’ve worked in hierarchical organizations for most of my career, where decisions are top-down and based on what’s already known; where individuals provide input based solely on their role and responsibility (no stepping outside); where process and outcomes are based on historical expectations and where patterns are the strict definers of success.
Then I joined an [...]
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Posted on April 21st, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
WHAT have the past few decades of feminism achieved for women’s true equality in the workplace?
Anyone looking at the statistics could rightly scratch their heads. In 2008 the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency reported women still represented only 10.7 per cent of executive managers in Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 listed companies, down from [...]
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Posted on April 19th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
The federal government has welcomed a move by Australia’s most powerful male bosses to promote women into top jobs and fight for higher wages.
A group of 10 men, which includes CEOs from some of the nation’s largest employers such as Woolworths, Telstra and Westpac, will work together on strategies to lift the representation of women [...]
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