Don’t Assume Your Current, Multi-million dollar systems are making it easier for your staff to find and make positive change with documentation/billing/inventory management. In over 20 years marketing to and consulting with hospital administrators and managers, I’ve learned two things: 1) Hospital decision makers are smart; they have a vision, but their culture and current […]
“In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is King” Read More »
In the past and for most of healthcare today, inventory has been managed independently from the rest of the business of providing healthcare. Recent articles ( 7 Reasons to Merge Revenue Cycle and Supply Chain Management ) have suggested the benefits of combining supply chain and revenue cycle. When you step back and look at
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What is a Medical Device Recall? A recall is an action taken to address a problem with a medical device that violates FDA law. Recalls occur when a medical device is defective, when it could be a risk to health, or when it is both defective and a risk to health. A medical device recall
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I love data. I am a self-professed data geek. If you know me, you know I measure my time at work, my time working out, my time learning, and even sleeping! I know that I spend 31% of my life sleeping (which makes me think – how can I get by with sleeping less?) Yet,
Often we hear, when talking with hospitals that they only expect to get a one time savings with our inventory solution. They’ll say, “With your solution, we are really only going to see a reduction in inventory on the initial install of your product. Thus, only realizing a one-time cost savings.” This has been their
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Deploying a system that increases actual billing (in addition to reducing inventory, eliminating obsolescence, and staff documentation time) is gratifying and rewarding. Helping hospitals identify where they may be missing data and/or actual billing, however, can be a challenge. The challenge, however, isn’t finding the data—it is often encountering resistance and some defensiveness along the
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Hospitals have used the 5 rights of medication administration as a foundation to build on as part of their patient safety initiatives: the right patient the right drug the right dose the right route the right time There is no reason we can not take the same approach to endoscope reprocessing. the right patient the
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All of healthcare is experiencing a revolution driven by an urge to become more transparent. From pricing, to processes, to patient data (to those patients), everyone wants to know the detailed information. This revolution is creating pain, and at the same time opportunity – this is Schumpeter’s gale (also known as “Creative Destruction”). A great
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Do you shop online using Amazon or another online retail store? Have you found yourself reading over online reviews for products before you buy? If you answered “Yes”, then you probably are aware that these reviews help influence or deter you from buying something. In some form, these online reviews provide credibility and increase the
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