Call Us: 1-888-MY-PMED-1June 20th-24th is Healthcare Risk Management Week (HRM Week)! The American Society for Healthcare Risk Management, also known as ASHRM, is celebrating HRM Week from June 20th to the 24th. This week is all about showing gratitude and appreciation towards risk management and patient safety professionals for all of the great work they do to keep patients…
Picture this: you’re a young professional in the early years of your sales career. You’re hungry to sink your teeth into the business to discover how a company runs. While business acumen is top of mind, approaching an executive with questions can be intimidating. Imagine having access to CEOs, where you had the chance to…
In every workplace environment, challenges are faced on a daily basis. In the healthcare industry where patient safety is of the utmost importance, workdays are especially long and expectations are high. These factors, coupled with rigid compliance regulations that require an immense amount of planning, training and execution, can often cause a lot of stress…
Think back to 2001, when The Joint Commission (TJC) worked with stakeholders in healthcare and developed four initial topics of core measurement. Hospitals were all a flutter and the term “cookbook” medicine was often heard amongst healthcare providers. A few years later, in 2003, TJC collaborated with CMS to align the specification requirements for these…
Policy management software is an incredibly useful tool that can help healthcare professionals in creating and maintaining policies to assist in the welfare of patients. I’m here to discuss how policy management software (with a few personal examples) can help the Human Resources department build and maintain an easy to follow framework for their internal…
This year’s HCCA Compliance Institute was a huge success! The event was full of great speakers, thoughtful sessions, and a lot of opportunities for learning and networking. A few of my PolicyMedical colleagues and I were lucky enough to attend the conference in fabulous Las Vegas and were asked (soon after our return) by several…
A couple of weeks ago some of the PolicyMedical team was fortunate enough to attend the 2016 HCCA Compliance Institute. The conference was fantastic, not just because it was in fabulous Las Vegas (although that was a definite plus, let me tell you), but because the HCCA Compliance Institute committee brought in great speakers that…
We often take for granted how easy it is to find the information we’re looking for in today’s technologically advanced world. It’s so simple to open an internet browser, and just “Google” it. Unfortunately for many hospitals and healthcare organizations, the act of searching and finding policies can be very cumbersome. From our years…
Choosing the right strategy to make better use of your policy management software doesn’t have to be a difficult task. At PolicyMedical, we have been working with healthcare organizations for over a decade now, and from our experience, as long as there is a carefully thought out implementation plan, everything else falls into place. The…
We recently had a discussion in the PolicyMedical office regarding support and how policy management software vendors should treat the support requests of specific clients – whether they are the vendor’s biggest client, smallest client or partner facilities to a client going through the sales process. As such I would like to take this time to outline…
