Inventory Tune-Up Drives Yearly Savings

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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Giving Permission to Find Solutions

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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Responding to the Power of Consumerism in Health Care Embracing Transparency to Drive Change

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

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

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

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

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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