An Administrator’s Tips to Health Care Providers for Curing Burnout
Burnout is prevalent. Most of you reading this are burned out. What can we do? How can we preserve our sanity? We sat down...
New Year’s Resolution: Hospital Moving Away from Term “Never Event”… Due to Frequency of...
NAPLES, FL - In 2011 when the term “Never Event” came into vogue for certain medical and surgical “whoopsies” that probably should never happen,...
New EMR Implementation Going Almost As Smoothly As Promised
San Diego, CA- When Balboa Memorial Hospital announced that they would be “upgrading” to a new Electronic Medical Record (EMR) last year, there was...
Take the quiz: Are you an evil insurance company?
1. Have you ever cancelled a preauthorization for a Monday cancer surgery….on a Friday afternoon?
2. Do you send routinely fliers to your customers extolling...
The Night Before Joint Commission
‘Twas the night before Joint Commission, when all thro’ the ER
Not a beverage was open not, even a beer;
The EMRs were all...
The Updated Hippocratic Oath for Health Care Professionals
I swear by Epic Hyperspace, by eCW, by Allscripts, by AthenaHealth, and by all the Coders and Accountants, making them my witnesses, that I...
Cost-Cutting Savvy: IT Replacing Computer Mice with Real Mice
LOS ANGELES, CA - Health care systems are always implementing innovative new ways to defray costs, and it turns out Los Angeles Medical Center...
Hospital Administrator Granted Workman’s Compensation For Paper Cut Injury
BOCA RATON, FLORIDA -- After a landmark decision by the board of trustees, Madre De Díos Hospital administrator Chlöe Less was granted a lucrative...
A Hospital Administrator Explains: MIPS
Hey everybody! Are you having a good day? I hope so. How about this fantastic weather we're having? Awesome, hey let’s talk about the...
New Study Finds Hospital CEO Pay Linked to CEO Satisfaction
In a new report by Coastline Health Systems, the results of a system-wide performance review were unveiled. Two independent consulting groups had been hired...