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If your hospital is utilizing scheduling spreadsheets for physician scheduling, that's negatively impacting your organization's bottom line. There are six ways that scheduling spreadsheets are costing your hospital money. First, creating schedules manually decreases patient safety. When patient safety is comprised, the result is lower CMS reimbursements, higher readmission rates, and greater exposure to CMS […]

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 the best physician scheduling software. The first step is to identify stakeholders. The stakeholders may include the chief medical officer, chief information officer, chief financial officer, chief nursing officer, as well as physicians, schedulers, and telecommunications. […]

If your hospital is constructing physician schedules using spreadsheets or pen-and-paper (as opposed to physician scheduling software), then inefficiencies are having a negative impact on staff morale, patient safety, and your bottom line. The first sign is growing staff frustration arising out of outdated schedules. It’s a vicious cycle, whereby staff members call the wrong […]

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 being burnt out at work, and they’re not symptoms to ignore. Professional burnout affects not only your job performance, but […]

Provider 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. Six warning signs of provider burnout are: exhaustion, substance use, relationship problems, medical errors, tension with colleagues and staff, and depression. Research has found that 44% of physicians feel burned […]