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Rapid Medical Evaluation (RMS®): The Solution to Emergency Department Overcrowding
April 24, 2012Developing innovative ways to increase efficiency in the Emergency Department (ED) can be a critical step in assuring that the highest quality, most cost effective care is provided. Rapid Medical Evaluation®(RME®) is a proven way to decrease patient wait times and increase the agility of an ED to meet the different needs and care levels that patients require. The fundamental principle of RME is to eliminate barriers and bring patients to providers as quickly as possible. It has been refined over a large number of sites and has proven to increase efficiency as well as patient satisfaction.
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CEP America
www.cepamerica.com
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Mountainside Hospital utilizes strategic revenue cycle services and solutions to take a "better on the basics" approach to improve financial health
April 10, 2012As pressures on revenues and supply costs continue to squeeze operating margins, healthcare organizations are adopting transformative strategies to optimize financial and operational performance, including initiatives to maximize revenue cycle efficiency. For Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, N.J., it's a down-to-the basics approach that has sparked a financial resurgence based on a simple premise — what isn't measured can't be managed.
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MedAssets
www.medassets.com
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Clinical System Adoption in the Community Hospital: Five Strategies for Success
April 6, 2012Powerful industry forces are pressuring community hospital leaders in today's marketplace. Those pressures may appear to work against successful clinical system adoption, but they are surmountable. In our experience with hundreds of EHR implementations in community hospitals, we've identified five vital strategies that successful facilities have in common. These strategies start before implementation and carry over through go-live to ongoing optimization of the EHR.
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Healthcare Management Systems, Inc.
http://solutions.hmstn.com/HMS_Whitepaper_Request_04.html
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READY OR NOT Here Comes ICD-10
March 13, 2012October 1 2013, was to mark a seismic shift in the healthcare landscape. On this date, the U.S. government was set to retire the more than 30-year-old International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision (ICD-9) diagnosis coding standard and officially adopt its successor, ICD-10, for ambulatory services and inpatient discharges. While the Department of Health and Human Services recently announced they will be extending this deadline, now is still time to act.
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GE Healthcare
www.gehealthcare.com/centricitybusiness
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Evidence-Based-Management in Healthcare
February 21, 2012Evidence Based Management (EBM) is about removing emotion, opinion, bias and personal experience from decision-making. Evidence Based Management is a business model whereby facts, data and verification are the only tools considered.
For healthcare, the original "assured-payment" model of Medicare created generations of managers who did not need any essential business skills. Now, US healthcare has 5,000 hospitals filled with clinical managers who lack sophisticated business skills. As a nation we do not have the proper skill-mix for the task at hand. The task is to lower costs, increase outcomes and improve the public perception of our care. This article offers a quick and simple solution illustrating Evidence Based Management.
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Imaging Fusion
www.imagingfusion.com
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Community Health Network implements system-wide workflow process improvements supported by technology in revenue cycle operations, realizes $26.7 million in cash improvement
January 3, 2012Ranked among the nation's most integrated health systems, Community Health Network (CHN), set out to accelerate revenue cycle performance during a system-wide organizational improvement initiative. Sustainable revenue for one of Central Indiana's largest not-for-profit health systems depended on elevating key performance indicators for its four Indianapolis hospitals from historically good levels to best-practice levels.
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MedAssets
www.medassets.com
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