Operating Rooms

How To Save Hours A Week By Automating Your Daily Re-Order Process

The typical procedural area in a medium or large hospital spends hours per week generating the daily re-order list of their important supplies and implants. The typical procedural area, like a Cath Lab, EP Lab, Vascular Operating Room or Interventional Radiology Department, spends those hours doing manual, inexact tasks such as “eyeballing” inventory to find […]

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How One Tissue Manager Passed Their Joint Commission Survey

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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Having Trouble Tracing Endoscopes To Patients? This Technology Can Help

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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Tissue Documentation Lacking? This Technology Can Help

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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Hoarding In The OR Is Costing Your Hospital Real Money

The hospital supply chain is increasingly being looked at as a way for hospitals to eliminate unnecessary spend. As hospitals continue on their journey from volume to value, the profit per procedure needs to improve in order for hospitals to remain profitable. As the place where most hospitals make and spend 50% of their dollars,

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The Key Inventory Management Metric For Hospitals To Track

As hospital executives look for new opportunities to reduce costs in an era when value is taking over for volume, the supply chain is increasingly coming in to focus. For too long, hospital supply chains – more specifically the procedures for managing surgical implants and supplies that make up a large share of supply costs

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How A Periodic Update Of Your PAR Levels Can Save Your Hospital Millions

PAR levels (or periodic automatic replenishment levels) have been used in industry for decades to help businesses of all kinds keep just the right amount of inventory on hand without suffering from excess. Many hospitals solely rely on “gut feel” in order to understand how many items of each product type they should keep on

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UDI One Step Closer To Reality

The United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and its European equivalents are currently conducting a real-world pilot aimed at bringing unique device identifiers (UDIs) one step closer to reality. UDIs have been a long-term dream for many in healthcare, who view the ability to track and trace medical devices using unique item-level codes as

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How A Periodic Evaluation Of Your Consigned Inventory Can Save Your Hospital Millions

There are many reasons why hospitals choose to consign the expensive implants and supplies that they use in surgical settings. However, deciding to consign a product without continuously analyzing that decision can be costing your hospital millions of dollars each year. Read on to find out some best practices when it comes to reducing the

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Caught In The Act: Can You Stop Dirty Scopes From Being Stored With Your Clean Scopes?

Does this scenario sound familiar to you? Your hospital has a great set of processes and protocols in place when it comes to reprocessing your flexible endoscopes. You even have a great system for logging clean scopes in and out of your scope storage areas. You believe that your staff are properly trained, re-certified and

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