The government is continuing its probe into whether The Joint Commission (TJC) and other healthcare accreditation firms that also have consulting arms are too conflicted to provide quality accreditations. The debate stems from the fact that some accreditation firms – like the TJC – are being paid to accredit firms once every 3 years, while […]
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Springfield, Missouri-based Mercy Health has taken to data analytics to help understand the discrepancy in physician item usage in order to boost its bottom line. By using data to analyze the costs and usage patterns of physicians on similar cases, it has identified many opportunities to reduce supply costs and increase its profitability. Using data
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The typical procedural area in a medium or large hospital spends hours per week generating the daily re-order list of their important supplies and implants. The typical procedural area, like a Cath Lab, EP Lab, Vascular Operating Room or Interventional Radiology Department, spends those hours doing manual, inexact tasks such as “eyeballing” inventory to find
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Contrary to recent claims by Olympus regarding the safety of its duodenoscopes, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has put out a statement regarding the dangers of using duodenoscopes. Duodenoscopes have been in the spotlight over the past several years due to a large number of patient safety incidents reported around the world.
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As expensive medical instruments that experience a lot of wear and tear, flexible endoscopes can cost a hospital a lot of money when going through avoidable repairs. Repairing flexible endoscopes often requires expensive maintenance from third-party organizations, downtime of services due to unusable scopes and procurement of expensive loaner scopes to handle the required workload.
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A new survey conducted by Sage Growth Partners and sponsored by Ingenious Med revealed that most hospitals still have a long way to go to clean up their revenue cycle and charge capture processes. The survey reached out to over 100 revenue cycle leaders at hospitals, 78% of whom believe that the charge capture process
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A customer recently relayed on to us their experience going through a Joint Commission accreditation survey. The tissue manager in the operating rooms of this particular hospital utilizes Mobile Aspects’ iRISecure system to track their tissue. She uses iRISecure to ensure the quality of documentation for patient safety and regulatory compliance. The Joint Commission (“TJC”)
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With The Joint Commission (TJC) spending an increasing amount of time in Sterile Processing Departments, Perioperative Departments and Endoscopy Suites during site surveys, the focus on maintaining high quality endoscope-related documentation has become a focus for many hospitals. TJC surveys, though only occurring once every 3 years, have become a huge a point of emphasis
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Continued pressure on The Joint Commission (TJC) is calling into question whether or not the non-profit organization best known for its hospital accreditation services is too conflicted to provide high quality accreditation surveys. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is weighing a decision to allow accreditation organizations that also have consulting arms to
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Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health has revealed that it has saved over $70 million dollars by taking a fresh approach to its supply chain. By focusing on clinically-led processes that include physicians in the decision-making, the health system has driven cost-savings that many can only dream of. Using physician-led councils across its various service lines, the
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