Hospital Document Shredding Management

Hospital Document Management (Part 4): Document Shredding

Every hospital is most likely already using a shredding vendor at some level, but did you know that the average document security breach costs organizations $5.85 Million in fees and lost revenue? If you think this can’t happen to your organization, think again. I’m sure this hospital in Georgia didn’t think that their patient records would be blowing across their community after their shredding vendor picked them up either. 

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Freight Management

Freight Management: The Easiest Purchased Services Category to Find Savings

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Shipping and receiving are among the fundamental processes of most businesses, and healthcare is no exception. In the healthcare industry, we call shipping and receiving inbound and outbound freight. You might be surprised at how much your health system purchases directly from a vendor (instead of a distributor) and then has it shipped for next day delivery. This is usually due to unexpected surgeries that come up that need special products or it’s from overly cautious buyers who don’t trust that their supply chain department will get them the products they need on time through their normal process.

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Medical Gas

Medical Gas Contracting Best Practices

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On the surface, medical gas may be just another commodity for hospital systems. Yet a lack of research and poorly negotiated contracts can create long-term burdens on a health system.

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Hospital Document Management

Hospital Document Management (Part 3): Scanning

Now that most hospitals have implemented an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) System, they are having to increase their scanning capabilities exponentially. It doesn’t make much sense to only have new patient records in your EMR while the rest are in hard copy (you’re not doing this, right?). So how do you get all of those physical documents into your ridiculously expensive EMR? Scanning is your answer.

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Hospital Document Storage Management

Hospital Document Management (Part 2): Document Storage

Hospitals need to select their storage vendor wisely (notice that I didn’t say vendors). Things do happen and you are liable for those “what if” scenarios. 

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Hospital Document Management

Why Hospitals Should Worry About Document Management (Part 1)

Does anybody else remember the big push to go paperless about 10-12 years ago? It’s pretty funny how the entire industry utilizes electronic records now but still goes through about the same amount of paper. This is the first article in a series we’re writing on document management where we’ll discuss some of the best practices in managing all of these documents and share ideas for putting together an RFP that selects a cost-effective and capable vendor.

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