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More than 2,500 hospitals are feeling the heat as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implement penalties for 30-day hospital readmissions. The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), a component of the Affordable Care Act, tallies unplanned readmissions of Medicare patients for six conditions: Heart attack Chronic lung disease Pneumonia Heart failure Coronary artery […]
If your hospital is ready to automate physician scheduling, then you may need to make the case for adopting physician scheduling software. MDsyncNET has developed this infographic to help you identify and implement the five steps to championing physician scheduling software in your facility. After identifying and consulting stakeholders, it’s time to determine costs and […]
If your hospital is constructing physician schedules using spreadsheets or pen-and-paper, then inefficiencies are having a negative impact on staff morale, patient safety, and your bottom line. MDsyncNET has prepared this infographic to help you identify three signs that your hospital needs physician scheduling software, as well as understand the advantages of MDsyncNET’s software solution. […]
By Julie Morris of juliemorris.org Have you gone from climbing the corporate ladder to wishing you could jump off the top rung? Are you feeling exhausted, unmotivated, and stressed at work? These are signs of job burnout, and they’re not symptoms to ignore. Professional burnout affects not only your job performance, but your health too. […]
Physician burnout is at an all-time high. Taking active measures to increase physician satisfaction is good for the physician, the patient, and the healthcare organization. Download MDsyncNET’s infographic, ”8 Steps to Solving Physician Burnout” here: https://mdsyncnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/mdsyncnet_burnout.pdf
Scheduling medical professionals is always difficult, but anesthesia scheduling may be the most challenging of all. According to the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, there are close to 53,000 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) in the U.S. Together with the approximately 31,000 physician anesthesiologists, CRNAs provide millions of patients with anesthesia both in and outside […]
Hospitals are living, breathing ecosystems that must adapt in order to survive. It’s the job of those in leadership to recognize when the time is ripe for change and then to shepherd the organization through the process. One of the often-overlooked but high-impact adaptations hospital systems can make is adopting physician scheduling software. Knowing When […]
Delays in the emergency department can be more than inconvenient – they can be deadly. Care gaps most often arise from emergency department overcrowding, which can be exacerbated by outdated physician communication processes. The Impact of ED Overcrowding in Care Gaps Researchers have studied the efficacy of “offload zones” in managing the delays that occur […]
Whether your hospital employs physicians to supply specialty on-call coverage or contracts with group practices, fair market value of the services provided is the cornerstone of effective contract negotiations. Fair market value determinations also keep hospitals in compliance with federal regulations. As such, hospitals need to define FMV consistently across physician contracts, determine FMV benchmarks […]
Do you know where your Emergency Department’s physician on-call schedules are? If you were to conduct a round-up this very minute, chances are good that they’d arrive from far and wide. One might hop off of the bulletin board in the doctor’s lounge. Another might unstick itself from the wall of the nurses’ station. Several […]
