As expensive medical instruments that experience a lot of wear and tear, flexible endoscopes can cost a hospital a lot of money when going through avoidable repairs. Repairing flexible endoscopes often requires expensive maintenance from third-party organizations, downtime of services due to unusable scopes and procurement of expensive loaner scopes to handle the required workload. […]
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A new survey conducted by Sage Growth Partners and sponsored by Ingenious Med revealed that most hospitals still have a long way to go to clean up their revenue cycle and charge capture processes. The survey reached out to over 100 revenue cycle leaders at hospitals, 78% of whom believe that the charge capture process
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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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With The Joint Commission (TJC) spending an increasing amount of time in Sterile Processing Departments, Perioperative Departments and Endoscopy Suites during site surveys, the focus on maintaining high quality endoscope-related documentation has become a focus for many hospitals. TJC surveys, though only occurring once every 3 years, have become a huge a point of emphasis
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Continued pressure on The Joint Commission (TJC) is calling into question whether or not the non-profit organization best known for its hospital accreditation services is too conflicted to provide high quality accreditation surveys. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is weighing a decision to allow accreditation organizations that also have consulting arms to
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Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health has revealed that it has saved over $70 million dollars by taking a fresh approach to its supply chain. By focusing on clinically-led processes that include physicians in the decision-making, the health system has driven cost-savings that many can only dream of. Using physician-led councils across its various service lines, the
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In the past few years, we have heard the stories about surprise inspections from The Joint Commission (TJC) from many of our customers. The tissue managers and operating room administrators have all agreed on two points: 1) TJC, state Departments of Health and the FDA have all been focused on the tissue management and documentation
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In response to a recent research report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Olympus has claimed that there is no link between its endoscopes and for a series of over 200 superbug infections around the world. The constant legal battles that Olympus is facing have yet to find the Japanese company solely responsible
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Over the last several years, endoscope-related outbreaks from around the US and the world have led to increased oversight of the endoscope high-level disinfection (HLD) process at many hospitals. Many hospitals are now finding themselves in a struggle to oversee the HLD process at their facilities without introducing too much oversight and intervention into the
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As the United States Department of Justice continues to examine Olympus’ role in infections related to the use of its duodenoscopes, the company is setting aside millions of dollars in reserves to cover expected losses from related lawsuits. As the leader in duodenoscope and endoscope sales in the US, Olympus expects to bear a majority
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