Database Backup Service NEW for Policy Management
If you’ve ever seen the reaction on the face of a teenager when you tell them the internet is down – I have, and it’s not pretty – then you know how we, as a society, value our internet connection…
Social Media Policies Crucial to Healthcare’s Success
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…
Documents Managed By PolicyStat Reduce Healthcare’s Costs
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…
ACOs Changing Immensely by NEW PPACA Law
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which was passed earlier this year has set off a firestorm of activity both within the healthcare sector and among those who serve it. Whenever this new law is fully implemented and however…
Multi-Facility Policy Management by PolicyStat
So you want software which manages policies and procedures across hospitals, do you? It sounds easy enough, but for many products it’s just not in the cards. Most software products today are built on top of software frameworks. These frameworks…
Web-Based Policy Management Benefits Greatly
Over the last four weeks, I have visited with roughly 20 of our customers; they vary in size from Critical Access Hospitals to large, multi-facility health systems. It seems that they all debated early on the merits of rolling out…
HTML Formatted Documents Simplifies Policy Management
One of the most common discussions I have with a new PolicyStat client revolves around how to use our policy editor. There are certainly the common usage questions about how to create a table or how build an outline or…
Procedures Require Constant Consulting for Best Practices
Every healthcare organization can literally have thousands of important documents that are meant to shape the actions of its workforce. These minimally include policies and procedures, and they also include guidelines, protocols, checklists, supporting documentation like forms, etc. Managing policies…
Customer Orientation Leads the Way for Client Success
I’ve been working at PolicyStat for about three weeks now. When you start at a new place, you always compare it with places you’ve worked before or how you envisioned it would be – differences in operations, company culture, etc.…
Searchability Sets PolicyStat’s Policy Management Apart
Ask most hospital administrators today if they have a policy problem and you will get a knowing grin, a warm handshake, and the assurance that, "we could do better, but our system is adequate." However, move closer to the patient…