Clinical Documentation

Meeting Joint Commission Tissue Tracking Requirements

Clinical Documentation, Joint Commission, Operating Rooms, Operational Efficiency, Regulatory Compliance, The Business of Surgery, Tissue Management /

Creating safe, efficient and accurate tissue management processes has become a top priority for PeriOperative departments across the country. Regulatory requirements designed to protect patients continue to evolve and expand with the growth of tissue usage and advances in surgical life-saving and life-enhancing procedures. Approximately 1.75 million people are currently receiving tissue implants annually just […]

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Return Clinician Time To Patients With EMR Improvements

Big Data, Clinical Documentation, Hospital IT, Hospital Management, Operational Efficiency, The Business of Surgery /

Physicians and other clinicians in hospitals have been increasingly vocal about their frustration with the time they are spending documenting encounters in EMRs instead of focusing on patient care.  Backing up that claim is a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that found that only 27% of the average day is spent by

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How Massachusetts General Hospital Re-Captured $1 Million in Missing Revenue

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

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the Boston-based, #3 ranked hospital according to US News and World Report, has successfully deployed RFID-based technology from Mobile Aspects to automate charge capture and inventory management across its procedural areas. MGH performs about 650,000 radiology examinations annually, and the Interventional Radiology (IR) department carries out around 15,500 procedures. In 2001,

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How To Use Data To Improve Revenue and Outcomes

Big Data, Clinical Documentation, Hospital Finance, Hospital IT, Hospital Management, Revenue Cycle, The Business of Surgery /

Maximizing revenue and patient satisfaction is a constant struggle in today’s healthcare environment.  Many decisions result in improving one at the expense of the other.  A recent presentation by Wise Health System at the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s ANI conference in Orlando spoke about how to accomplish both goals with a data-driven culture. The endeavor

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Average Hospital Leaving $22 Million On The Table

Clinical Documentation, Hospital Finance, Hospital Management, Revenue Cycle, The Business of Surgery /

A recent study by a financial analysis team at the Advisory Board concluded that the average 350-bed hospital misses $22 million in lost revenue capture opportunities per year.  With hospital margins often hovering near breakeven, that is $22 million in lost dollars that are sorely needed to shore up the bottom line. The reason hospitals

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Are You Maximizing Your Revenue Per Procedure?

Clinical Documentation, Hospital Finance, Hospital Management, Revenue Cycle, The Business of Surgery /

In today’s healthcare environment, it’s more important than ever to maximize the revenue your hospital is receiving for each procedure. Hospitals are being squeezed from both ends – declining reimbursements and increasing supply costs for more complex medical devices. Research shows that the average 350-bed hospital is missing $22 million in revenue capture opportunities per

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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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How to Use Data to Get Lean With Medical Devices and Increase Patient Safety

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

We’ve all seen it (and maybe even done it ourselves) – thousands of dollars of medical devices tucked away in our desks, filing cabinets, ceilings, wherever we can find a secret space. This isn’t a practice intended to waste hospital dollars, it’s done with the best intention – patient safety. When a patient needs a

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The Dangers Of Copy-And-Paste In Your Medical Records

Big Data, Clinical Documentation, Hospital IT, Patient Safety, The Business of Surgery /

With the seemingly endless amount of information clinicians are required to enter into medical records software each day, it comes as no surprise that doctors and other hospital staff are looking for short-cuts to reduce their documentation burden.  At our customers, we’ve seen copying and pasting of data from templates or other patient records to

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Why Case Mix Index Matters To Your Hospital And How To Maximize It

Cath Lab, Clinical Documentation, Hospital Finance, Hospital Management, Operating Rooms, Radiology, The Business of Surgery /

In talking with our hospital customers, case mix index (CMI) often comes up as a source of confusion and misunderstanding by clinical staff.  CMI is widely tracked by employees on the financial side of the hospital, but not monitored nearly as closely on the clinical side, so its impact is widely misunderstood.  CMI is an

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