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Digital Breast Tomo, Tumor, Surgery, Radiation…Wait
A month ago I wrote about what we thought was a cyst in my wife’s right breast, Following a digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and biopsy, the pathology report thought it benign but included a strong...
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Consider Continuity of Care When Making Staffing Assignments
The creation of staff schedules requires an enormous amount of planning and preparation. Analyzing staff availability, overtime, trends, and census are just a few examples. Fortunately, integrated and...
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7 Benefits of Centralized Insurance Eligibility Verification
Verifying patients’ insurance coverage is more important than ever under the Affordable Care Act. Clinics and hospitals are serving more people who have insurance for the first time or who recently...
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GE Healthcare receives 2016 Computerworld Data + Editor’s Choice Award
On Monday, September 12, 2016 GE Healthcare’s Centricity™ EDI Services was awarded the 2016 Computerworld Data + Editor’s Choice Award. The annual awards program “honors organizations achieving...
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KPIs for Insurance Eligibility Verification
There are many benefits to centralized eligibility verification, as I described in my previous post. Identifying key performance indicators (KPIs) ahead of time will help you set up the system that’s...
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Building an ecosystem of partners – one partner at a time
In May 2016, GE Healthcare Digital President and CEO, Charles Koontz introduced the Centricity™ Partner Program at our annual Centricity LIVE user group meeting. Through the Centricity Partner Program,...
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From Resisting to Requesting: What’s Causing the Change in Nurses’ Attitudes...
When it comes to finding the most cost-effective resources to cover a shift, most hospitals and health systems will agree that sharing qualified staff across units (or even facilities) is preferable to...
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Healthcare Isn’t a Game … But Maybe It Should Be!
Power up Your Employees, Especially Millennials, with Gamification Pop quiz! Which generation group makes up the largest percentage of our workforce in 2016? If you said anything other than...
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Key growth initiatives in healthcare; analytics and denials management
For hospitals, health systems, and ambulatory financial leaders alike, improving denials performance can have a meaningful impact on revenue cycle performance and subsequently, the bottom line. That a...
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Focusing on nurse engagement to achieve higher care quality
Staff engagement is essential to organizational success regardless of industry, but in healthcare, it is especially crucial. Strong workforce management strategies help hospitals and health systems...
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Using Workforce Management Solutions to Help with Magnet®
Magnet® is a prestigious designation, but the Magnet journey, which is the path hospitals take to earning Magnet status, can be challenging. Hospitals with Magnet status share several, desirable...
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The Quadruple Aim requires more collaborative innovation
You’ve heard it a billion times. While volume previously defined success, providers must now enhance care quality, increase practice efficiency and lower per capita costs to achieve the Triple Aim....
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Three Ways Collaborative Staffing Delivers Real Cost Savings
While some of the most visible outcomes of Collaborative Staffing are increased staff engagement and satisfaction, Collaborative Staffing can also help health systems achieve their most pressing...
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From data to information to knowledge to wisdom
Where healthcare execs would like to see analytics go from here I recently sat in on a panel discussion on analytics with CEOs and CIOs. One CEO shared the vision for his hospital, “I’d like to see us...
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Workforce Management Solutions: Hiring and providing payroll to the medical...
As the industry continues to face a number of challenges with staffing and reducing healthcare costs, hiring the right nurses and staff members is among the highest priority for many hospitals and...
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The Evolution of Care: How Centricity Perinatal Came to Celebrate the Birth...
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that over 360,000 babies3 are born every single day. It’s the kind of statistic that can take a moment to truly sink in, but have you ever stopped to think about what...
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Why Finding the Perfect Match Matters
Blind date horror stories. We’ve all heard them. Many of us have had them. Now, with advances in science and technology, matches are made based on online questionnaires and algorithms. Sometimes, those...
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Little data, big impact!
Are your big data initiatives solving your most challenging problems, or would a more focused effort produce better results? “Imagine what we could do with all of this data in one place!” “Distributing...
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It’s two weeks until training. Do you have your prep checklist?
The time is now to make sure you have all the essentials in order. Don’t wait. Don’t wing it. Starting a solid training preparation checklist two weeks to a month (or more) in advance ensures that when...
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Automation – Which Tasks to Choose?
There are many benefits to automating redundant tasks — particularly avoiding human error and freeing up people for higher-level tasks like working claims. Any task that involves a repeatable set of...
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