Improving Patient Assignments
Hospitals continue to make great strides in using technology to improve clinical operations and outcomes. Automated disinfection systems to eliminate harmful microorganisms. Telehealth to make...
View ArticleThe True Cost of Physician Burnout
By the acknowledgement of just about everyone in healthcare, physician burnout has become a significant problem. But what is the cost of that problem for hospitals and is there justification for...
View ArticleThe Joy of Medicine
Nearly 20 years ago colleagues at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) used the term “healthy workplaces” to describe a positive and productive healthcare environment. Since that time,...
View ArticleClinical Workflow Impediments
While Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems in hospitals have been applauded for improving information transfer and for providing ready access to data to multiple providers, they have also been blamed...
View ArticleImproving Patient Assignments
Hospitals continue to make great strides in using technology to improve clinical operations and outcomes. Automated disinfection systems to eliminate harmful microorganisms. Telehealth to make...
View ArticleImbalanced Workloads Are Frustrating Nurses
There may a dozen reasons why many nurses are currently frustrated with their jobs, but one reason that’s high on the list and often underappreciated is imbalanced workloads. Let’s face it. Nobody...
View ArticleReducing Nurse Workloads More Affected by Work Environment than Added Staff
Absent a good work environment, reducing nurse workloads by adding additional nurses, a costly proposition, may have little consequence. That was the conclusion reached by a seminal study several years...
View Article13 Principles to Reduce Medical Errors in Hospitals
While the airline industry celebrates no loss of life in the past year due to accidents, the medical profession continues to wrestle with medical errors. For example, analyzing the medical death rate...
View Article9 Insights from the Latest Physician Burnout Survey
The latest Medscape physician burnout survey, which was distributed to more than 15,000 physicians, has some been released the results are sobering. Here are nine insights from the latest survey. FOUR...
View ArticleMedAptus Named 2018 Top-Ranked Mobile Charge Capture Platform by KLAS Research
For the seventh time in eight years, MedAptus® has been named the Category Leader in the Mobile Charge Capture segment in the “2018 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services” report. The award...
View ArticleNurse-Patient Assignments: A Fresh Look
As hospitals continue to try to reduce costs, improve operations and still provide quality care, one area that might benefit from an evidence-based practice review could be nurse-patient assignments....
View ArticlePhysician Burnout in a Single Health System
While physician burnout continues to be seen throughout healthcare, a group of researchers wanted to evaluate its impact and prevalence within a single health system. Relying on data collected from the...
View ArticleNursing Workloads, Frequent Interruptions and Job Satisfaction
While a number of studies continue to explore the correlation between nursing workloads and patient safety, some specific studies have been looking into the extent to which “care not done” is...
View ArticleMedAptus Seeks Experienced Clinical Implementation Consultant
JOB OPENING Job Title: Clinical Implementation Consultant Department: Client Services Position Overview MedAptus is an established and growing company that offers software solutions for healthcare...
View ArticleThe Future of Interprofessional Healthcare Teamwork
Could the future of interprofessional clinical care teams be germinating in colleges around the U.S.? As hospitals and other healthcare organizations continue to strive for the “triple aim” of improved...
View ArticleImpostor Syndrome in Hospitals
In work settings that are known for copious amounts of stress, such as a hospital, employees in leadership positions tend to doubt their abilities and expertise. In these roles that require heavy and...
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Charbonneau Named Vice President of Implementation Services
Malachi Charbonneau has been named Vice President of Implementation Services at MedAptus. Charbonneau is responsible for building and leading a highly effective cross-functional implementation team...
View ArticleThe Inherent Weaknesses of the Manual Patient Assignment Process
Ever since the emergence of hospitalists 20 years ago, the process of assigning patients to physicians has been an operational staple in hospital medicine. In fact, it hasn’t changed much in those...
View ArticleThe Underlying Cause of Physician Burnout
In a recent opinion article in JAMA Psychiatry, authors Frederick Seacrest Southwick, MD, and Steven Mark Southwick, MD, suggest that loss of control may be the underlying cause for physician burnout...
View ArticlePhysician Burnout: My Perspective
I‘ve been thinking about burnout quite a bit lately (mostly in relation to my own career), but I think that there are lessons that are more broadly applicable, so I figured I’d share over the next few...
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