Electronic tool aids in navigating preop process
Preop “nurse navigators” aided by an electronic tool are helping a Pennsylvania health system create a more standardized, user-friendly preoperative process for preparing patients for surgery. A More »...
View ArticleStreamlining preoperative care: Role of software
A 65-year-old man with heart disease schedules a knee arthroscopy with his orthopedic surgeon. Thirty miles away, a note pops up to notify the hospital’s presurgical clinic of the impending surgery. A...
View ArticleAn electronic path for streamlining scheduling
An electronic form surgeons’ offices use to place scheduling orders has streamlined the preoperative process and sharply reduced case cancellations for a Chicago-area hospital. Cancellations are down...
View ArticleAutomating sterile processing for safety, efficiency
Lean management and automation have come together to create a sterile processing department (SPD) that can efficiently process the 700 to 1,000 instrument sets a day needed to support a caseload that...
View ArticleOnline patient records: A trend ASCs should learn to embrace
Most ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) have some form of computer-based recordkeeping, such as scheduling and billing systems. So far, however, few have made the leap to electronic medical records...
View ArticleFront-line staff input helps build a better EHR system
Electronic health records (EHRs) are here to stay, but implementation and optimal use are still lacking. Respondents to the 25th annual OR Manager Salary/Career Survey identified many issues, including...
View ArticleElectronic tracking system reduces blood transfusions, infections
A system to monitor how physicians give blood to patients after an operation enabled a hospital system to significantly reduce the blood transfusions. More » The post Electronic tracking system reduces...
View ArticleMedical societies plead with Congress to fix ‘meaningful use’
Pressure continues to mount for Congress to take legislative action to pause Stage 3 of the electronic health records meaningful use program and revise Stage 2 in a way that enables provider success....
View ArticleEHR adoption up, but challenges continue
1Julia Adler-Milstein (juliaam{at}umich.edu ) is an assistant professor in the School of Information and in the Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of...
View ArticleNurses’ perceptions of EHR
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to understand nurses' perceptions of a newly adopted electronic health record (EHR). BACKGROUND: As use of EHRs in hospital settings increases, leaders prepare...
View ArticleMost financially struggling hospitals regret changing EHRs
Four years after what Black Book calls the "replacement frenzy," a recent survey from the market research firm indicates that 87 percent of financially struggling hospitals now regret changing their...
View ArticleFDA drops recall of Custom Ultrasonics’ System 83 Plus endoscope reprocessor
The Food and Drug Administration has dropped a recall of some 2,800 scope-cleaning machines in use at hospitals and clinics nationwide despite a finding by a top agency scientist last year that the...
View ArticleJoint Commission announces advisory panel to assist with eCQMs
View the multimedia news release (OAKBROOK TERRACE, Illinois - May 9, 2016) The Joint Commission announces the Pioneers in Quality Advisory Panel, a group of technical experts who will be providing...
View ArticleCybersecurity experts hack into hospital software, medical devices
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) --- Cybersecurity experts have found ways to hack into hospital equipment. A recent IT study exposed the vulnerabilities of technology used inside medical facilities. The study...
View ArticleECRI Institute releases new equipment recall management tool
PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA -The faster a hospital responds to a product safety alert or recall, the safer its patients are. But with dozens of alerts and recalls issued every week by FDA, manufacturers, and...
View ArticleHospital readmission app could save billions
A quartet of graduate students from the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science came in second place in the nation-wide 2016 Institute of Industrial and System Engineers CIS Division...
View ArticleUse of electronically mediated time out to reduce wrong surgery
An Interventional Observational Study More » The post Use of electronically mediated time out to reduce wrong surgery appeared first on OR Manager.
View ArticleJune healthcare security breaches affect 11 million patient records
The high number of breaches span payers, providers and an NFL team and prove just how vulnerable the industry is, the new Healthcare Breach Barometer from Protenus and Databreaches.net said. More » The...
View ArticleAutomated communication system helps prevent SSIs
First study with orthopedic surgery patients shows the system is convenient and easy to use and that patients feel it significantly improves communication with their surgeons NEWS FROM THE AMERICAN...
View ArticleAutomated intraop glucose monitoring linked to reduction in SSIs
Abstract Background: Diabetic patients receiving insulin should have periodic intraoperative glucose measurement. The authors conducted a care redesign effort to improve intraoperative glucose...
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