Healthcare
Our Guide to Effective Communication in Healthcare Facilities
Effective communication in healthcare facilities can be a challenge. It’s made difficult because of the added pressure of regulatory compliance and ongoing interoperability issues between legacy recordkeeping systems and new digital processes. Of course, patient wellbeing often hinges on effective communication. According to a recent study, 52% of healthcare organizations face communication failures that negatively …
How to Control a Medication Refrigerator Temperatures Log
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 …
A Quick Guide to Quality Improvement in Healthcare
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 …
10 Steps to Building an Effective Compliance Plan for Healthcare Organizations
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 …
Digital tools that aid healthcare facilities during the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected healthcare facilities across the nation. Almost every facility experienced disruptions to its health services and supply chain. To increase the patients’ safety and restore daily operations, healthcare facilities have had to address the new demanding list of regulations. The new regulations cover a variety of areas: ensuring increased patient safety …
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 …
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 …