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Is Technology Working for Your Surgery Program?
We are living in a time when, for just about anything we need, there is an app associated with it. Our mobile phones have replaced our cameras, fax machines, video cameras, alarm clocks, maps, newspapers, magazines, address books, yellow pages, and many other devices and items that we just thought we could not do without.
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Anesthesiology Departments on Average Charge More Than 20 Times Their Costs
Hospitals on average charged more than 20 times their own costs in 2013 in their anesthesiology departments, as well as their CT scan departments, which suggests that hospitals strategically use chargemaster markups to maximize revenue, according to new research from Johns Hopkins University.
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Facility Has ‘One-Stop’ Process at Patient’s Bedside
Patient satisfaction scores soared after bedside registration was implemented at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington, IL.
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Take These Steps to Avoid Issues With Instruments
In outpatient surgery, physician staff often pressure techs to quickly turn around sets and scopes for cases, says Marcia Patrick, MSN, RN, CIC, a Tacoma, WA-based consultant, educator, and surveyor for the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.
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Have Systems in Place to Report Problems with Surgical Instruments
When experiencing repeated problems with surgical instruments that are broken, missing, or dirty, documentation of such problems is key to resolving the issue, says R. Stephen Trosty, JD, MHA, CPHRM, ARM, risk management and patient safety consultant in Haslett, MI.
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Surgical Instruments’ Sterilization Probed After 11 Years of Complaints
“It’s a surgeon’s nightmare.” These words, spoken by a physician at Detroit Medical Center, ran in The Detroit News in a multi-story investigative series about how physicians had reported unclean, missing, and damaged surgical instruments for 11 years without the issue being resolved.
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Non-technical Skills Matter With Safety
Patient safety before, during, and after surgery requires an appropriately educated, committed, and empowered healthcare team, according to recommendations presented at the inaugural National Surgical Patient Safety Summit in Rosemont, IL.
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Four Outpatient Surgery Situations You May Encounter and the Best Solutions
One of the most popular features in this column is bringing examples of what we are seeing at the 30,000-foot level across 49 states where we have clients. (Come on, Hawaii. Where are you?)
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Boost Collections by 634%? Surgery Center At This Hospital Has Done It
Registrars at The Cooper Health System in Camden, NJ, recently began giving patients who are hospital employees a new option: to use one, two, or three payroll deductions to take care of their copays. This seemingly minor change gave revenue a major boost.
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OCR: Ransomware Attack Usually a Data Breach
With ransomware attacks a continuing threat to healthcare providers, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is warning that, in addition to all the other headaches, such incidents could be considered a data breach under HIPAA.