Accreditation
What to Expect from a CMS Survey: The Key Differences Between Government-Regulated and Privately-Held Accreditations
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a federal agency responsible for evaluating the quality of care provided by healthcare facilities, including hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, and other healthcare providers that participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs. Healthcare facilities often pursue both CMS certification and accreditation from private bodies like QUAD …
7 Questions to Ask When Preparing for an AAAHC survey
Stay on Top of Standards, Documentation, and Ensure Quality at All Times The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) is an influential accrediting body that promotes high-quality care and patient safety in ambulatory healthcare facilities. According to AAAHC, accreditation is a distinguishing accomplishment that you can promote within the community you serve. It assures …
5 Ways HealthTech Prepares Centers for Accreditation Surveys
Even though healthcare accreditation surveys typically only occur every 1.5 – 3 years, it seems that there’s never a week that goes by without it being top of mind. In fact, it often takes healthcare facilities up to one year or more to prepare for these events due to their essential nature. While there’s nothing …
Ensuring Excellence: Meet The Joint Commission Standards with Technology
In the realm of healthcare services, there is a common pursuit: providing the best in patient care and safety. Enter: The Joint Commission. The Joint Commission plays a vital role in enhancing healthcare facility survey readiness through its accreditation process and continuous commitment to maintaining and improving healthcare standards. Founded in 1951, The Joint Commission is an independent, nonprofit …
How digital solutions improve regulatory compliance
The regulatory compliance process can be cumbersome. The paperwork is costly, takes up valuable space, and logs often vary between employees. Implementing an electronic solution addresses all these problems and decreases the amount of work around compliance surveys. Exploring the benefits of digitizing the regulatory compliance process was the subject of a Sept. 14 webinar …
Join our Webinar: Benefits of Digitizing Regulatory Compliance Processes
The webinar was live on Monday, September 14th, 2020, 10:30 am – 11:30 am CT.Watch it on-demand below. Damien Berg from UC Health and Jeremy Ralston from San Luis Obispo Surgery Center (SCA) are going to discuss the compliance challenges related to SPD, life safety, credentialing, and infection control, and how digital tools can help …
4 Common Compliance Issues That Healthcare Facilities Face and How to Avoid Them
Ambulatory Surgery Centers and similar medical service sites may possibly open themselves up to a range of compliance issues when they rely on traditional pen-and-paper documentation in their facility. Today’s high volume modern health center demands an innovative record keeping solution. Switching to a digital regulatory compliance suite, that accurately tracks tasks in digital logs, …
Accuracy of ASC Checks and How Technology Can Help
An ambulatory surgery center (ASC) functions as a complex ecosystem, where physicians, nurses, administrators, technicians, and other clinical team members must collaborate to ensure implementation of the best practices for compliance. This includes infection control, fire and life safety, sterile processing, credentialing, controlled substance inventory, and much more. All of these processes require constant monitoring …
Who Can Benefit from Surglogs?
Surglogs is a customizable, cloud-based, HIPAA compliant, all-in-one solution specifically designed for professionals within the healthcare industry. Surglogs has helped thousands of healthcare professionals to simplify and streamline processes in their facilities. Administrators Surglogs liberates you from the paperwork burden and helps you to maintain an effective compliance plan in your facility. Ensure that your …