MDsyncNET Posts, Articles & News
While the goals are simple – better patient outcomes and lower costs – hospital healthcare delivery has never been more complex. Regulation-driven reimbursement models mean more committees, more key performance indicators, and more stakeholders. Before long, this “mantra of more” permeates organizational culture. But more isn’t always better – especially when it comes to physician […]
When was the last time your cat willingly hopped into its carrier for a trip to the vet or stopped scratching the corner of the couch in response to your polite request? Biologists point to the historical symbiotic relationship between cats and humans to explain feline independence – and why herding cats is next to […]
A hospital’s emergency department is on the front line of acute care, and emergency department crowding is itself an emergency. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are close to 137 million emergency department visits per year in the U.S. Of those patients, more than 12 million are admitted to hospitals and […]
JANUARY 15, 2019 – INDIANAPOLIS, IN – MDsyncNET (https://mdsyncnet.com) today announced that Texas Health Resources (THR), the largest faith-based nonprofit health system in North Texas, deployed MDsyncNET’s physician on-call scheduling software across its 13 wholly owned hospitals. According to MDsyncNET Co-Founder and CEO Brad Goldsmith, “We’re committed to providing Texas Health Resources with the capacity […]
Physician burnout is rampant across the United States. According to the American Medical Association, 42 percent of doctors are burned out. Research into the phenomenon has identified a variety of potential culprits that rob physicians of their joie de vivre. A Mayo Clinic study found that physicians using electronic health records and computerized physician order […]
The journey toward finding healthcare communications software that is the right fit for a hospital is often a bumpy road. There are a number of factors that can take your facility on a costly detour or cause it to become stuck in a technological pothole. The top three are: 1. Too Many Bells and Whistles […]
According to the American Hospital Association, more than 5,500 U.S. hospitals serve 35 million admitted patients each year. The vast majority of those patients are cared for by more than 57,000 hospitalists – physicians (typically internists) who work exclusively with hospital patients. The unique nature of hospitalist shift scheduling creates a tension between the need […]
Verizon’s “Can you hear me now?” slogan is still reverberating in hospital offices and corridors – only now the question on everyone’s lips is, “Didn’t you get my message?” Hospital communication challenges wax and wane, but the claim that an intended recipient never received a time-sensitive message is one that endures. Researchers have delved deeply […]
While many small and rural hospitals rely on generalists or hospitalists to care for critically ill patients, larger facilities have long embraced an ICU paradigm that utilizes intensivists to minister to their sickest patients. Intensivists, who are certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine or the American Board of Emergency Medicine, have had specialized […]
As Juliet so movingly noted, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” But when it comes to physician on-call schedules, it’s easy to get tripped up by terminology. Regional differences, verbal shorthand, and site-specific lingo can prevent hospital staff from understanding one another. Here’s […]
