Suneil Mandava

Global Healthcare Company Mobile Aspects Announces Industry-First Blood Product

Blood Management, Joint Commission, Operating Rooms, Patient Safety, Regulatory Compliance, Tissue Management /

The product, iRISecure Blood, is an industry-first RFID transfusion and safety system for hospital emergency departments and trauma centers. [Pittsburgh, PA – October 19, 2021] Mobile Aspects, a global healthcare software company that helps hospitals become safer and more efficient, today announced the first end-to-end RFID Bloodbag tracking system, iRISecure Blood. This new solution is […]

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How One Tissue Manager Passed Their Joint Commission Survey

Clinical Documentation, Hospital Management, Joint Commission, Operating Rooms, Patient Safety, Regulatory Compliance, The Business of Surgery, Tissue Management /

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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Establishing a Successful Scope Management Strategy

Hospital Management, Infection Control, Joint Commission, Managing Endoscopes, Patient Safety, Regulatory Compliance /

Hospitals and healthcare providers are under increased scrutiny by The Joint Commission (TJC), the FDA, DNV and even Congress to improve the documentation practices around flexible endoscope usage. There are articles in the media seemingly every day about how an endoscope manufacturer or a hospital was cited, sued or otherwise put in a negative light

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How Much Is Consignment Costing Your Hospital?

Hospital Finance, Hospital Management, Operating Rooms, Operational Efficiency, Radiology, Supply Chain, The Business of Surgery /

In a walkthrough of a major academic hospital in the Northeast US, the Chief of Surgery was lamenting how little space she had for new operations. The new hybrid Operating Room she was planning was going to be larger than their typical OR, making the issues even worse. As we walked through the ORs, a

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Do You Hear Too Many Footsteps?

Big Data, Cath Lab, Cost Reduction, Hospital Finance, Hospital Management, Operating Rooms, Operational Efficiency, Radiology, Supply Chain, The Business of Surgery /

Today, most hospitals are starting to understand what items and supplies they use by looking at data coming out of their documentation or materials management systems.  Maybe they even go a step further to standardize on certain products (it seems like every hospital has a “Product Standardization Committee” and/or “Value Analysis Committee”). But does your

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View From the C-Suite: There’s No Money in Linens

Cost Reduction, Hospital Finance, Hospital Management, The Business of Surgery /

I visited a top academic hospital in the United States today. Working with the Chair of one of the departments, he provided an insight I hadn’t really heard of before. This addresses many of the management ideas that we have all learned about – setting priorities (as opposed to trying to do everything), the 80/20

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Why Your Automated Endoscope Reprocessor Is Not a Documentation System

Clinical Documentation, Infection Control, Joint Commission, Managing Endoscopes, Patient Safety /

Hospitals and healthcare providers are under increased scrutiny by The Joint Commission (TJC), the FDA, DNV and even Congress to improve the documentation practices around flexible endoscope usage. There are articles are in the media seemingly every day about how a hospital was cited, sued or otherwise put in a negative light around their endoscope

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Are You Able To Inspect What You Expect?

Infection Control, Joint Commission, Managing Endoscopes, Patient Safety, Regulatory Compliance /

In hospitals, endoscopy, perioperative, sterile processing and infection control teams have done a wonderful job of teaming up together to implement solutions for effective flexible endoscope management. This area has been one of the biggest, if not the biggest, area of scrutiny by Joint Commission and other surveying agencies in the past 1.5 years. We

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Leverage Your Electronic Medical Record Investment – You Only Spent Billions

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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Why The Joint Commission Is Hung Up On Scopes

Infection Control, Joint Commission, Managing Endoscopes, Operating Rooms, Patient Safety, Regulatory Compliance /

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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