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CP+ breakfast demo at NAMSS conference
We are pleased to extend you a personal invitation for a free demonstration of our exciting privileging software, CP+
Free Live Demonstration
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
7:00 to 8:30 a.m. PST
NAMSS Annual Conference in Reno, NV
Grand Sierra Resort and Casino
Nevada 6 and 7 rooms
Contest entry: Go green and improve patient safety
Jenna Duch, medical staff coordinator at Akron Children’s Hospital in Ohio, submitted a suggestion to the Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium contest that we wanted to share because it will help save the environment. Duch puts all of the medical staff orientation materials onto a USB key rather than stuffing several trees’ worth of paper into cumbersome binders. She includes hyperlinks on the agenda page to guide medical staff members through all of the documents and help them find specific information.
“Now, we don’t have to print binders with copies of all the material included, such as bylaws, rules, regs, staff roster, etc. Think of the money and time we save by simply dropping electronic files on a drive instead of printing binder after binder. And the new provider gets a free USB key to use whenever and for whatever. So far, we like how this is going,” Duch writes.
Duch adds that the medical staff puts patient safety first by requiring new providers to participate in a safety-focused medical staff orientation within the first year of their appointment. They cannot reapply if they do not attend. “We want to ensure that our patients are treated the best, so setting the bar high from the beginning is what we hope to do.”
Thanks for the suggestion Jenna! Keep those entries coming!
To learn more about how you can win two free seats to the Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium, click here.
Do you Twitter?
Starting this week there’s a new way to receive the latest credentialing news. You can follow me on Twitter @CRC_EmilyB.
Twitter is a Web site that allows users to send 140 character updates to others in real time. Individual posts on the Web site are nicknamed Tweets. As some of you know, several hospitals have made headlines this year by Twittering during live surgical procedures. For more information about this phenomenon, check out “Get to know today’s social media Web sites: Know the difference between Twitter and a tweet before drafting your organization’s policy,” in the July issue of Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, archived on www.HCPro.com.
We’re on Twitter, but are you? Take our poll to see how your level of tech savviness compares to your peers.
Study: Going paperless saves lives
A new study reinforces the notion that digitizing recoreds can save more than just paper and space:
The study surveyed doctors who practiced at 41 hospitals across Texas and asked them whether they used computers to keep patient notes, order medications, list test results and track the reasons for other aspects of patients’ care. The study correlated their responses with data from each hospital and found that the hospitals where doctors made the greatest use of electronic records had lower death rates, cheaper costs and shorter lengths of stay.
The chance that a patient would die was 15 percent lower in hospitals that were ranked in the top third in their use of computerized records and notes, the study found. Hospitals that scored high in having doctor’s orders for medication and other treatment entered electronically rather than by hand cut the odds of death from a heart attack by 9 percent and from coronary bypass surgery by 55 percent, Powe and his colleagues found.
Todd Morrison
Managing editor