Teamwork and Technology to Create a Safer Hospital: Parallels between the Hospital and Other “Mission Critical” Teams

September 7, 2017 / Hospital IT, Hospital Management, Managing Endoscopes, Patient Safety /

Charles Cowles, Anesthesiologist and Chief Perioperative Safety Officer (MD Anderson Cancer Center) has leveraged his experience as a firefighter and exposure to other industries to discuss how hospitals can build on their patient safety committees taking a departmental team approach. As more medical errors are reported, Dr Cowles noted the severity of preventable errors with […]

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Highlights from Michael Porter – AHA 2015

September 7, 2017 / Hospital Finance, Hospital Management, The Business of Surgery /

Keynote speaker–Michael Porter (noted lecturer, and consultant on Value Management) delivered a fresh perspective on orienting US Healthcare Delivery at 2015 AHA Health Forum Leadership Summit (7/23-7/25, San Francisco).  Ironic, since Porter has been publishing work on value chain improvement since the 1970s. Porter’s essential message—should US Hospitals choose to accept his challenge—focused on committing

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The New Frontier of Patient Safety: Patient and Family Respect & Engagement

September 7, 2017 / Hospital Management, Patient Safety, The Business of Surgery /

One of the important breakout sessions during the AHA Leadership Summit was “Redesigning Care–A New Playbook to Improve Quality, Safety and Patient-Centered Care”. The session was led by Kenneth Sands, MD of Beth Israel Deaconess, Peter Pronovost, MD (Johns Hopkins Hospital), Hildy Schell-Chaple of UCSan Francisco Hospital and Patricia Dykes, PhD Of Brigham and Women’s

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Daily Dose: CMS Audit Recovers $700M of Improper Payments

August 30, 2017 / Hospital Finance, Hospital Management, Regulatory Compliance, Revenue Cycle, The Business of Surgery /

With the close of the fiscal year quarter, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has again released statistics for the amount of overpayments and underpayments. The latest report shows that the trend continues to point upward, as CMS has once again corrected more improper payments than the previous quarter, this time to the tune

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Massachusetts General Shares Keys To Success at RFID in Healthcare 2012

August 30, 2017 / Clinical Documentation, Hospital Finance, Hospital Management, Operational Efficiency, Radiology, Revenue Cycle, The Business of Surgery /

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a 1,000-bed teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, and recent recipient of the #1 ranking in US News & World Reports 2012 Best Hospitals is expanding its use of radio frequency identification for surgical supply & implant tracking. Robert M. Sheridan, the director of interventional radiology spoke about the key decisions

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Daily Dose: Study – Knee replacement procedures double, Emerging as critical healthcare cost

August 30, 2017 / Hospital Finance, Operating Rooms, The Business of Surgery /

Daily Dose: Curious how the U.S. spends $2,300,000,000,000 ($2.3  Trillion) annually on Health Care?  Follow @mobileaspects for a daily look at the numbers of Healthcare Recently the Wall Street Journal revealed that the number of knee replacements paid for by Medicare has more than doubled over the past two decades.  Is the explosive growth of

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"The Case for RFID & Lean Supply Management" AVIR Conference March 25, 2012

August 30, 2017 / Big Data, Clinical Documentation, Cost Reduction, Hospital Finance, Hospital IT, Hospital Management, Operational Efficiency, The Business of Surgery /

Mobile Aspects is proud to have been in attendance at this year’s AVIR (Association of Vascular and Interventional Radiographers) conference in San Francisco, CA.  2012 marked Mobile Aspects’ first appearance at the AVIR Annual Conference as we supported Robert Sheridan of Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA), during his presentation to fellow AVIR members about RFID

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Endoscope Reprocessing Hazards – Thousands of Patients Impacted Annually 5 Links

August 30, 2017 / Infection Control, Managing Endoscopes, Patient Safety /

Want to get more insights about RFID & Healthcare?  Follow us on twitter @mobileaspects   Now Follow these stories with Hashtags! #RFID #SGNA2012 #HIT #Endoscope “10 veterans test positive for hepatitis after colonoscopies” – USA Today 2009 A headline such as the one above appearing in a 2009 USA Today article is a nightmarish scenario

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