“Doing more with less” – an old adage we are all too familiar with in healthcare. Couple that thought with surging patient volumes and admission rates and the need to meet increasingly stringent regulations, including Meaningful Use and new patient-flow requirements from The Joint Commission. MEDHOST is expanding its consulting services to help Customers combat these and other issues, as well as achieve clinical, operational and financial goals much faster.
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At MEDHOST, our commitment to providing cutting-edge technology consistently pushes us to evaluate and enhance our solutions and development processes so that our Customers have the best products available. Recently, we shifted to an Agile Development process, which means more frequent and improved quality of version releases.
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With 60 percent of admissions originating in the ED, it is critical that hospitals establish processes to ensure effective and concise communication between ED and inpatient providers. The opportunity for sentinel events to transpire during the handoff of care is significant, which is why programs such as the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals advocate best practices for care transitions.
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Across the exhibit floor and in many of the educational sessions at HIMSS12, a few topics seemed to be top-of-mind for the record-breaking 37,000-plus attendees—analytics and interoperability. It was both intriguing and exciting to hear all the buzz, especially as both items have been key focus areas at MEDHOST for several years.
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MEDHOST finished 2011 with many accomplishments, including attaining the No. 1 ranking in the Emergency Department segment of the 2011 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services report. Not only were we atop the KLAS rankings, but we outpaced all other EDIS providers by receiving the highest rating in the report’s “Has Needed Functionality” category. More than 80 percent of surveyed MEDHOST customers said that the MEDHOST EDIS functionality meets their needs.
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