Hospital IT

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

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

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

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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Data and the Healthcare Triple Aim

Big Data, Hospital IT, Hospital Management, The Business of Surgery /

More hospitals are using the Triple Aim framework as a systematic approach to thinking about value. The Triple Aim framework from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is designed to help hospitals optimize performance by focusing on three dimensions: Population Health, Experience of Care and Per Capita Cost. As hospitals dig deeper into the framework, they

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How Hospitals Can Drive More Value From Data Analytics

Big Data, Cath Lab, Hospital Finance, Hospital IT, Hospital Management, Operating Rooms, Operational Efficiency, Radiology, The Business of Surgery /

As adoption of EMRs at hospitals reaches saturation, hospitals and health systems are now trying to figure out how to make the most of the vast amounts of data being collected by their information systems. Focusing on data analytics in the perioperative setting can drive significant value for a hospital, given the large share of

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How One Hospital Uses Advanced Analytics to Drive Savings and Improve Outcomes

Big Data, Cath Lab, Cost Reduction, Hospital Finance, Hospital IT, Hospital Management, Operating Rooms, Radiology, The Business of Surgery /

Geisinger Health System, a leading health system in Eastern Pennsylvania, has begun realizing tremendous benefits from a data analytics program established in 2015. The hospital’s Unified Data Architecture (UDA) collects and stores data from electronic medical records and other data sources to provide a holistic view of a patient’s health. Benefits of the UDA so

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

Hospital IT, Hospital Management, Managing Endoscopes, Patient Safety /

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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"The Case for RFID & Lean Supply Management" AVIR Conference March 25, 2012

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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The Real Time Health System: Introducing a Vision

Hospital IT, The Business of Surgery /

Rising medical devices costs, inefficient processes and decreasing  reimbursements might all be mentioned as threats to any hospitals long term sustainability.  As focus and investments are now turned toward creating a hospital environment which is both safe and efficient it is critical that healthcare organizations have a plan.  While true change will ultimately come from

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