Hospitals continue to pursue patient safety initiatives as part of the overall shift in US Healthcare from volume to value. After all, hospital acquired infections (HAIs) quickly increase the cost of a procedure and will directly affect your bottom-line. This is on top of any damage to your hospital’s reputation that may occur from an […]
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Data integrity is becoming a focal point of many hospitals that have recently gone live with their multi-million dollar electronic medical record (EMR) systems. While moving from paper to electronic medical records helps hospitals improve EMR accessibility and portability, it does not do much in the way of removing human error. This becomes a potential
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I recently had a chance to sit down with Damien Berg. Damien is the Manager of Sterile Processing at St. Anthony Hospital in Colorado, and he is running for IAHCSMM President-Elect in this year’s election. As the election is already underway, I wanted to sit down with Damien to understand his platform and interest in
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You’ve seen the reports of larger healthcare systems and their investments into Electronic Medical Records (“EMR”). Most are spending hundreds of millions of dollars, and many are spending over a billion dollars! This includes the actual software modules of the EMR, vendor labor-hours spent implementing the project, consultants, your hospital IT budget, servers, and so
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In recent surveys, The Joint Commission has scrutinized the entire endoscope management process. Everyone understands this is because of the serious patient safety concerns and media attention, as well as the manufacturers of scopes and reprocessors having their own product challenges. So why is The Joint Commission so hung up on how scopes are hung
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A recent survey conducted by Cardinal Health showed that 24% of hospital staff have seen or heard of an expired product being used on a patient during a procedure. This comes as no surprise, as we have witnessed the usage of expired inventory at hospitals first-hand. Without the proper processes and vigilance to prevent these
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In working with various hospitals across the country, particularly with their scope management practice, we are seeing that all caregivers absolutely have the intention of delivering at the highest level of quality and safety. As organization leaders, it is our job to help our team members meet these important goals. In working with these provider
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Each year, the US healthcare system wastes $765 billion according to a 2012 National Academy of Medicine study. According to the same study, that total eclipses the annual budget of the Defense Department and the amount could be used to cover the insurance coverage of 150 million American workers. While the numbers are staggering, there
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Newly found evidence has revealed that Olympus duodenoscopes have been tied to another infection outbreak. Per the report filed with the FDA, a foreign facility saw five of its patients who were treated with Olympus duodenoscopes infected with Klebsiella pneumoniae. The facility’s name and location were not included in the report, however it was reported
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Recent studies have shown a strong link between sharing pricing data with physicians and a resulting drop in case costs. The latest study to show this link was recently published in March 2017 in JAMA. According to JAMA, the OR Surgical Cost Reduction (OR SCORE) project was conducted in a single health system with multiple
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