If there’s one thing everyone in ASC management can agree on, it’s that old habits, even the bad ones, die hard. How else to explain ASCs who continue to maintain binders full of hard copy documents as the hub of…
A standard set of policies and procedures is crucial to all healthcare organizations, but simply having them in place is just the beginning. In the last few years healthcare has undergone significant changes. Changes in technology, culture, laws and protocol…
In the ever-changing healthcare industry, facilities are looking to update and improve their policies and procedures regularly. With various regional, state, and national governing bodies to keep in mind, staying compliant with policies and procedures can seem like a daunting…
Corporate culture is getting a lot of attention these days, especially since it drives health care quality and overall financial returns. In fact, less than half (44 percent) of the U.S. hospital workforce is highly engaged, according to the results…
One of the stated goals of the Affordable Care Act (or “Obamacare,” as some call it) is to increase the quality of healthcare in the United States. This goal can be achieved in many different ways, but all roads lead…
If you are the person in charge of finding the best policy management software, then you probably already know the value of automatic approval routing. Different people review and make edits to each policy or procedure, and the last thing…
You might know bits and pieces of your organization’s policy and procedure workflow, or maybe you’re well-versed in the whole policy lifecycle (or life cycle) process. However, if you’re envisioning binder-based policies or documents stored in folders on a shared…
Investing in a policies and procedures management system is a great first step in accomplishing the healthcare reform goals of reducing costs and increasing quality of care – it shrinks or eliminates many operational costs involved in maintaining policies and…
As someone who is involved in both marketing and healthcare document management, I wanted to write about social media policies for hospitals. Whether it’s seen as a great way to promote the hospital or a big, bad risk to patient…
As the recession took hold of the US economy in 2008 and 2009, I was often told that I was in as close to a recession-proof industry as I could be. After all, people generally don’t have control over when…