Clinical Documentation

Why You Need To Focus On Data Quality In Your Electronic Medical Record Today

October 5, 2021 / Big Data, Clinical Documentation, Hospital IT, Operational Efficiency, The Business of Surgery /

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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Leverage Your Electronic Medical Record Investment – You Only Spent Billions

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

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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How to Get More Value Out of Your EHR Implementation

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

Many US hospitals are now reaching the end of their electronic health records roll-outs.  Companies such as Epic and Cerner have reaped large windfalls from these implementations at most hospitals across the country.  While the software companies have benefited greatly from the implementations, many hospitals are left scratching their heads about how best to take

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Increase Surgical Revenue – Part 3 of 3 (Case Mix Index)

November 30, 2017 / Cath Lab, Clinical Documentation, Hospital Finance, Hospital Management, Operating Rooms, Radiology, Revenue Cycle, The Business of Surgery /

What is Case Mix Index (CMI)? Medicare and Medicaid created a CMI score to help properly reimburse hospitals for services provided to inpatients (CMI doesn’t apply to outpatients). The CMI is an attempt to measure the resources needed to provide proper care for patients. An article from Health Leaders Media titled CDI Programs Drive Up Case

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Increase Surgical Revenue – Part 2 of 3 (Documentation Improvement)

November 30, 2017 / Cath Lab, Clinical Documentation, Hospital Finance, Hospital Management, Operating Rooms, Radiology, Supply Chain, The Business of Surgery /

Why is documentation so important for proper reimbursement for surgical procedures? In order to get properly reimbursed for a surgical procedure, you must be able to prove through documentation what you’re are trying to get reimbursedfor.  If you can’t prove it, then you will not get paid for it. Government programs such as Medicare and

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Increase Surgical Revenue – Part 1 of 3 (Charge Capture)

November 30, 2017 / Cath Lab, Clinical Documentation, Hospital Finance, Hospital Management, Operating Rooms, Radiology, Revenue Cycle, The Business of Surgery /

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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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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"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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RFID Enabled Clinical Resource Management Solution Featured in Journal of the American College of Radiology Independent Research Study

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

The March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR) features a non sponsored independent research study conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital.  The article titled: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for Inventory Management in Neurointerventional Practice, seeks to highlight potential financial advantages, benefits to quality and safety as well as increases in staff

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The Top 5 Reasons Your Hospital’s Operating Room is Leaking Cash

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

1) Missed charges: Hospitals with traditional paper based logging systems typically miss charges on upwards of 30% of total billable items used in cases.  Even more interesting is the fact that hospitals with bar code-based inventory management systems have not solved this problem.  Massachusetts General Hospital was actually able to achieve a 20% increase in

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