MedAptus Seeks Experienced Sales Executive
JOB OPENING Position: Regional Sales Executive Summary Description MedAptus has been in business for over 18 years and we are known for our KLAS award-winning charge capture software and services (Best...
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 ArticleValues Congruence and Physician Burnout
Substantial research exists that suggests when employees hold values that match the values of their employer, those employers are satisfied with their jobs, identify with the organization, and see to...
View ArticlePhysician Burnout Responsible for Medical Errors
A recent study published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings indicates that physician burnout is at least equally responsible for medical errors as unsafe medical workplace conditions, if not more so. The...
View ArticlePhysicians Interrupting Patients
According to a new study, physicians only spend 11 seconds on average listening to patients before interrupting them. Also, only one in three physicians provides their patients with an adequate...
View ArticleThe Ongoing Challenge of Patient Handoffs
Are patient handoffs getting better? Considerable effort has been made to improve handoffs in the past several years, including using technology and programs like I-PASS, the mnemonic technique to help...
View ArticleWeekend Continuity of Care and Length of Stay
In a 2014 study, researchers wanted to evaluate the association between attending physician continuity of care on weekends and clinical outcomes. They wanted to know — could increased length of stays...
View ArticlePhysicians and the Workaholic or Type A Personality
Do physicians themselves identify with the personality traits often ascribed to physicians, such as being a “workaholic, Type A, and “control freak”? It seems they do. In a study in 2014, researchers...
View ArticleEHRs and Easy Access to Information for Physicians. Not Quite
More health information may be collected than ever before, but that doesn’t mean it’s accessible to physicians. In a recent study of 300 physicians by Surescripts, only one-half of U.S. physicians said...
View ArticleInterdepartmental Clinical Care Teams: Germinating in Colleges
Could the future of interdepartmental 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 ArticleMaking the Business Case to Address Physician Burnout
As widespread exposure and news coverage continues on physician burnout, three researchers wanted to understand the economics of the problem and offer a possible solution. Called the Business Case for...
View ArticlePhysicians Giving Medical Advice to Friends: Context is Key
When is it okay for a physician to give professional advice to a family or friend? That was the thrust of a study by researchers from the Care and Public Health Research Institute at Maastricht...
View ArticlePhysician Burnout and Unsafe Patient Care
Is physician burnout associated with low-quality, unsafe patient care? In a meta-analysis of 47 studies on 42,473 physicians, researchers found that physicians with burnout were twice as likely to be...
View ArticlePredicting Patient Acuity
Can Accurate Predictions Be Made Using a Mathematical Model? Predicting patient acuity would be a powerful tool for any hospital, especially for nurses. But is it possible? Can estimations and...
View ArticleTeam-based Care and Physician Burnout
Can high-quality, team-based care be one of the solutions for clinician burnout? That’s what a group of researchers wanted to understand in a recent review of the literature. While they found that the...
View Article5 Principles of High-Performing Healthcare Teams
Many value-based payment models that are gaining traction in healthcare are built on the premise that team-based care improves outcomes. But does it? The evidence suggests it does. For example, a 2015...
View ArticleMedAptus’ Automated Charge Infusion Coding Solution – Charge INFUSION – Now...
The only computer-generated and fully automated charge infusion coding solution in healthcare today is now available in the Epic App Orchard. Charge INFUSION from MedAptus automatically pulls infusion...
View ArticleCMO Brief: Continuity of Care
Awhile back, I wrote about hospitalists truly being PCPs in the hospital by improving long-term continuity of care in the hospital setting. Let’s explore that a little bit more. While there is not...
View ArticleCMO Brief: Continuity and Patient Satisfaction
Last time, we began to talk about continuity of care and the lessons we as hospitalists may be able to learn from the outpatient world. We’re going to continue to talk about the outpatient world to...
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