Hospital Department Performance Improvement Knowledge Management Website: HMC Revamps the HMC KnowledgeWeb and Adds New Successes And Good Ideas Resource

The Healthcare Management Council, Inc. is a healthcare performance improvement company that offers hospital department performance improvement knowledge management tools. HMC recently redesigned its online tool, the HMC KnowledgeWeb, to better serve its hospital department manager users.

(PRWEB) March 11, 2004 -- Hospital revenues are declining, monetary contributions are stale, and healthcare reimbursement is declining. Healthcare costs keep increasing.

Faced with less revenue and more expense, hospitals across the country are turning to hospital benchmarking companies like the Healthcare Management Council (http://www.HMC-Benchmarks.com) to learn how they can reduce their costs. HMC hospital benchmarking compares a hospital's cost structure to that of its peers, highlighting where the hospital is spending more money providing services. Hospital department benchmarking shows where a hospital has to improve, while knowledge management tools can show a hospital how to improve.

While most benchmarking companies stop at the benchmarking comparison, HMC offers a very successful peer networking tool called the HMC KnowledgeWeb. The HMC KnowledgeWeb (http://www.HMC-benchmarks.com/hospital/tools_kw.shtml) is the virtual workspace where hospital department managers from across the country come together to discuss how to lower costs and improve performance in their departments. Built on the twin foundations of asynchronous communication and web-enabled virtual meetings, the HMC KnowledgeWeb enables managers to learn from and exchange knowledge with others quickly and as a normal course of business -- a must for busy department managers. The HMC KnowledgeWeb is the online hub for:

- HMC-facilitated hospital department manager peer conference calls

- hospital performance improvement Webcasts

- hospital performance improvement online collaborations

- hospital performance improvement online presentations

- hospital performance improvement surveys of practices at peer hospitals

The new HMC KnowledgeWeb highlights the "Successes and Good Ideas" section, which is a dynamic library of successful hospital department performance improvement strategies that have proven successful at HMC Partner hospitals. These ideas can be applied or adapted for use at other hospitals, helping to lower costs and improve the quailty quality of care using proven strategies.

The HMC KnowledgeWeb hospital department performance improvement knowledge management tool is available to both HMC Partner hospitals and non-Partner hospitals alike. More information can be found at:

- Levels of access to, and cost of, the HMC KnowledgeWeb: http://www.HMC-Benchmarks.com/hospital/tools_kw.shtml

- Joining an HMC Knowledge Community (healthcare communities of practice), or join a conference call on a particular hospital department performance improvement topic: http://www.hmc-benchmarks.com/hospital/ccs.shtml

Contact: Shelley Burns (SHBurns@HMCOnline.net)
The Healthcare Management Council, Inc.
Area: Hospital Performance Improvement
Web site: http://www.HMC-Benchmarks.com