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31 percent of adults and 54 percent of children do not have a primary care doctor. More than 46 million Americans are uninsured; that is greater than 16 percent of the population. Read more ...- David Coe |
Upcoming events
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Transcultural Aspects Of Aging & Healthcare
This event has been designed to assist clinicians understand cultural
differences and characteristics among the major ethnic groups
represented in Arizona.
August 18, 2009
Mesa Convention Center 263 N. Center Street Mesa, Ariz. 85201
Click here for Directions
"Lighting the Torch"
Welcome Ceremony
For Graduate Students
August 23, 2009 from 2 to 4 p.m.
Nursing & Health Innovation Building 2550 N. 3rd Street Phoenix, Ariz.
85004 Click here for Directions
RSVP by Aug. 12 to: nursingalumni@asu.edu
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Sponsor us!
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If you are interested in sponsoring the Master of Healthcare Innovation Program, please e-mail Dan Nienhauser.
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Q & A: Judeen Terrey, landscape architect
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Judeen Terrey has a passion for designing spaces that integrate humanity
and the environment. Working as a landscape architect for more than
20 years, she has developed a keen sense for blurring the lines
between indoor and outdoor places to create a fluid access to nature
and provide a serene escape from the often stressful world inside. Her
most recent creation, the healing garden at Scottsdale Healthcare's
Thompson Peak hospital, provides a bridge to this escape and connects
the patients to the healing environment.
Kimberly Briggs, a current MHI student spent five minutes with Terrey to learn more.
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LEAD: Chief Lizard Wrangler for Mozilla
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As utilizers of the internet, we all undoubtedly know and use Mozilla (aka Firefox)
browers at some point in our web surfing. What we may not be aware of
is that this open source project was the brain child of an attorney
turned CEO, turned philanthropist.
Winifred Mitchell Baker, known as Mitchell Baker, originally went
into the techology industry as chief legal counsel for Netscape with
responsibility for intellectual property protection. Through this role,
Baker came to understand how copyright laws applied in the open source
age of the Internet that we all know as 2.0. This ignited her passion,
leading to the beginning of change in her career path.
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EXPLORE: Pitching business plans
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Have you ever written a grant or pitched a business plan? That is what
MHI students are doing right now! The students have the option of
choosing to work on developing a grant or business proposal as their
final assignment in "Finance for Healthcare Innovation." Since about
half of the students are registered nurses with little business
background, this assignment proves to be especially challenging. The
primary focus is to develop sound financial analysis reports, such as
an operating budget, cost-benefit analysis, or operating budget
variance. These analysis's must incorporate innovative elements to
combat negative variances.
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10 FACES: A new approach to high-risk deliveries
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The birth of a baby is usually a joyous event. Following a long
pregnancy and painful labor, every new mother wants to be handed a
bouncing, healthy baby boy or girl. Sometimes that is not the case,
especially when the baby is born too soon.
At O'Connor Hospital in San Jose, Calif.
where I work, the birth of a premature baby used to be a chaotic,
stressful event with an uncertain outcome. This recently changed when
we implemented a process change in the way we planned for, communicated
and functioned during a high-risk delivery. This was done using many of
the "Ten Faces of Innovation," as described by author Tom Kelly.
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ALUM: MHI alum, professor, PhD student publishes article
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Daniel Weberg, an MHI alum, has recently published an article in Nursing Administration Quarterly,
in which he attempts to de-buzz the word "innovation" and give it
substantive meaning. The article reviews the scholarly pursuit of the
concept of innovation from its inception in the early 20th century and
applies it to health care in a manner that can be expanded and acted
upon.
The crux of the article is that innovation is more than just
novelty, not merely an invention, but as Weberg defines it:
"Innovation is something new, or perceived new by the population
experiencing the innovation, that has the potential to drive change and
redefine health care's economic and/or social potential (Weberg, 2009)."
Read more ...
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