Compliance

As the medical industry’s demand for vaccines and medicines grows, health-care organizations will need to make additional investments in keeping a high quality medication refrigerator temperature log. By 2024, it’s expected that the U.S. medical refrigerator market will grow to $4.2 billion. With so much money on the line, it is imperative for medical staff …

In healthcare, your ability to give your patients the best care possible is goal number one. It’s also goals number two and three. And quality improvement is the way for healthcare organizations to achieve those goals.   What is quality improvement in healthcare? According to the National Academy of Medicine, quality in healthcare refers to the …

Compliance is a crucial part of healthcare. Your healthcare organization’s compliance plan is critical in keeping both patients and workers safe. Governmental regulations can act as a guide, but healthcare organizations must be proactive. Mishandling these processes can result in severe penalties, malpractice suits, and poor patient outcomes.  The Office of Inspector General (OIG), a …

For many clinical directors, overseeing multiple centers means a lot of traveling and hours spent in a pile of binders. Amiee Mingus, VP of Clinical Operations at PE GI Solutions, told us about the processes in her centers and how Surglogs has helped her and her teams to save time, storage space and reduce stress …

The responsibility of regulatory compliance within the environment of care is usually on an administrator or a compliance officer. But in many facilities, it falls on the shoulders of nurses. We’ve spoken with Kristy Norman, Director of Nursing at Surgecenter of Louisville, a 4 OR and 1 PR surgery center, about handling it all. Kristy, …

Surveys from accreditation bodies are always stressful for the staff at ASCs. Searching for the data in a pile of binders and ensuring that everything is logged takes a lot of time and energy. Leadership and staff are responsible for hunting down missed logs and maintaining accreditation. Surglogs has committed to make the lives of healthcare employees …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …