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Bringing Best Practices to your Surgical Facility
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By Ken Drazen
In 1954, Peter Drucker, famed Harvard Business School Professor, formulated the term "Management By Objectives" in his book, The Practice of Management. For more than 60 years, large organizations from all parts of the U.S. have used his "MBO" method to drive business performance, and the method has become a tool kit for the execution of business outcomes.
Can Peter Drucker's methods apply to the activities and management goals of an Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC)? As an investor in the Outpatient Surgery Center industry, we see some important trends moving management practices in Professor Drucker's direction:
- Adoption of newer operational technologies, such as AmkaiSolutions's suite of business and clinical solutions, which streamline the activities of the surgery center or hospital and its affiliated practices.
- Electronic Medical Records to enable the application of decision support tools that improve patient safety and begin the step toward outcome-driven healthcare reimbursement.
- Business intelligence tools to aggregate data across the enterprise and industry, as well as to automate the combinations of key performance data (scheduling, OR room efficiency, case costing, payer behavior, etc).
Ken Drazan, MD, Executive Chairman of Medibis, is a co-founder and Partner at Bertram Capital, a growth equity firm in Silicon Valley CA. Prior to Bertram, Ken was a life science entrepreneur and liver transplant surgeon at Stanford University.
Medibis, located in Oklahoma City, OK, is the leading provider of cloud-based decision support and business intelligence for the leading surgical facilities in the United States today. You can find Medibis in ITunes and at www.medibis.com
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Safe Surgical Checklist Adherence | |
As of January 1, 2012, Ambulatory Surgery Centers were required to begin using a Safe Surgical Checklist. Both AmkaiCharts and AmkaiOffice have been instrumental in helping AmkaiSolutions clients adhere to these new standards.
The components of the Safe Surgical Checklist have long been part of AmkaiCharts, and facilities with AmkaiCharts are now able to run a report that confirms their adherence to the Safe Surgical Checklist.
Facilities that have not yet implemented AmkaiCharts can produce a checklist using AmkaiOffice with the patient's name, date of surgery and surgeon in either the WHO or AORN format. This will greatly assist surgery centers in compliance and help avoid future reimbursement penalties.
For more information on making sure your facility is compliant, please contact AmkaiSolutions Client Services. |
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Welcome, New AmkaiSolutions Clients! | |
Thank you to all our new clients for putting their trust in us to deliver the best EMR and business management solutions:
1. Westchester Putnam GI (Frontier)
Carmel, NY
AmkaiOffice, AmkaiCharts and GI OpNote for Practice and ASC
2. Ambulatory Surgery Center of Somerset
Bridgewater, NJ
AmkaiOffice and AmkaiCharts
3. Roseland Surgery Center
Roseland, NJ
Anesthesia Billing Module
4. mdPain Care (In2ative)
Conyers, GA
AmkaiOffice
5. The Retina Surgery Center (Proliance)
Seattle, WA
AmkaiOffice
6. Mercy Ambulatory Surgery Center
Fort Smith, AR
AmkaiOffice
7. Coast ENT
Neptune, NJ
AmkaiOffice and AmkaiCharts
8. Monterey Surgery Center
Salinas, CA
AmkaiOffice
9. Columbia Orthopedic Group (Nueterra)
Columbia, KS
AmkaiOffice and AmkaiCharts
10. Allspine Surgery Center
Riverdale, GA
AmkaiOffice and AmkaiCharts
11. Wayne Community Pain Solutions (Covenant)
Waynesboro, TN
AmkaiOffice and AmkaiCharts
12. Capital Surgery Center (Compass)
Raleigh, NC
AmkaiOffice
13. Concord Ambulatory Surgery Center
Concord, NH
AmkaiOffice and AmkaiCharts
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Visit AmkaiSolutions at the Following Meetings | |
COLORADO AMBULATORY SURGERY ASSOCIATION
April 25-27
Denver, CO
AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTER ASSOCIATION
May 9 - 12
Dallas, TX
Booth 723
BECKERS HOSPITAL REVIEW MEETING
May 17 - 18
Chicago, IL
AAOE
May 20 - 22
New Orleans, LA
BECKERS ORTHO, PAIN, SPINE
June 14 - 16
Chicago, IL
GULF STATES CONFERENCE
June 20 - 21
New Orleans, LA
ARIZONA AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTER ASSOCIATION (AASCA)
June 28-30
Sedona, Arizona
FLORIDA SOCIETY OF AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTERS
Date: July 11-13
Orlando, FL
CALIFORNIA AMBULATORY SURGERY ASSOCIATION (CASA)
September 5-6
Anaheim, CA
OAASC Annual Conference
Ohio ASC Multi-Disciplinary Conference
September 19-21
Columbus, OH
PHA CONFERENCE
September 19-21
Austin, TX
FASCA of TN
September 27
Memphis, TN
Pennsylvania ASC meeting
October 1
Harrisburg, PA
SOUTH CAROLINA AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTER ASSOCIATION
August 2 - 3
Charleston, SC
New York ASC meeting
October 3 - 4
Albany, NY
WASCA
October 4 - 5
Tulalip, WA, 98271
Becker's ASC meeting
October 25 - 27
Chicago, IL
Texas ASC conference
November 15 - 16
Dallas, TX
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TALK TO US! | |
Tel: 914.273.5790
855-GO-AMKAI (855.462.6524)
Fax: 914.801.5932
www.amkaisolutions.com
200 Business Park Drive, Suite 208
Armonk, NY 10504 |
About AmkaiSolutions™
AmkaiSolutions™is a trusted industry leader, offering innovative software solutions and services to ambulatory surgery centers, associated practice and clinics, and surgical hospitals. AmkaiCharts™, the #1 rated EMR, is specifically designed for the fast-paced, procedure driven healthcare delivery model. The rapid case-centric flow is intuitive, easy to use, and allows facilities to eliminate paperwork and focus on patient care. AmkaiCharts fully integrates with AmkaiOffice™, the company's next generation administrative and management system.
AmkaiOffice tracks all required data, helps reduce supply costs and ensures timely completion of tasks, while providing detailed profitability reporting of case costing, and corporate/facility financial reporting and modeling. Both AmkaiOffice and AmkaiCharts are fully customizable to adapt to the specific workflow of the facility.
For further information, visit www.amkaisolutions.com
or call 855.462.6524 x106 and ask for our CEO, Joe Macies.
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