AHA Solutions Resources

April 2007 Hospital Risk Transfer Survey Results

Other

Our goal for this survey was to develop a solid grasp of liability solutions being employed currently by AHA hospitals.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Professional Liability Claims & Litigation Management

Language-Based Discrimination and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Whitepaper

In health care, the patients right to receive language assistance in his or her native language is enshrined in one of this countrys landmark civil rights laws, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Risk managers and compliance officers should take notice of a new set of civil rights enforcement priorities that include illegal language-based discrimination.

Challenge: Care Continuum, Cultural Transformation

AHA Solution Partner: Interpretation & Translation Services

Case Studies: Delivering Performance Improvement Across the Care Continuum

Case Study

A synopsis of a number of Vocera case studies, including Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital (PIH) in Whittier, CA and Indiana Heart Hospital (IHH) in Indianapolis, IN.

Challenge: Care Continuum

AHA Solution Partner: Immediate Response Communication Systems

Network Helps Take Healthcare System into Bold Future

Case Study

Sanford Health launches ambitious initiatives for expansion and integration of healthcare services with Cisco advanced network.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Wireless Networking Products

MedsTracker Improves Home Medication Lists, Patient Safety for Myrtue Medical Center

Case Study

MedsTracker has simplified and integrated the admission and discharge medication order process for Myrtue Medical Center. Home and admission medications are easily identified for accurate prescribing.

Challenge: Care Continuum

AHA Solution Partner: Medication Reconciliation Software

Critical Requirements and Deadlines for The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Funding

Flyer

Critical Requirements and Deadlines for The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Funding. 2010-2011 Hospital Qualification and Physician Qualification.

Challenge: Clinical Integration

AHA Solution Partner: Health Information Exchange, Voice, Data Networking & Wireless Services

Preserve, Control, and Discover Email - Archive Manager Datasheet

Whitepaper

Although email is the most common and efficient channel of business communication, it creates major storage and accessibility challenges. Learn how Archive Manager can help.

Challenge: Clinical Integration, Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Email Archiving

Hospitals and Care Systems of the Future

Other

AHA Committee on Performance Improvement identifies must-do, priority strategies & core organizational competencies organizations should establish to remain successful.

Challenge: Clinical Integration, Care Continuum, Financial Sustainability, Cultural Transformation

AHA Solution Partner:

Improve Efficiency, Accuracy and Profitability in the OR

Flyer

SIS Scheduling provides four core capabilities that include scheduling, procedure/preference cards, materials management, and patient tracking.

Challenge: Care Continuum

AHA Solution Partner: Surgical Information Systems, Surgery, Management</br>& Anesthesia

SIS Staff Scheduling

Flyer

With SIS Staff Scheduling, you can build a surgery departments schedule quickly and easily, while making the most cost-effective and skill-appropriate staffing and scheduling decisions.

Challenge: Care Continuum

AHA Solution Partner: Surgical Information Systems, Surgery, Management</br>& Anesthesia

SISWeb: Improve Surgeon and Patient Satisfaction

Flyer

To stay profitable, hospitals must focus on ensuring patient safety and satisfaction, as well as attracting and retaining top surgeons. SIS provides software that enables hospitals to do both.

Challenge: Care Continuum

AHA Solution Partner: Surgical Information Systems, Surgery, Management</br>& Anesthesia

Case Study - Capella Healthcare

Case Study

Learn how the license became a vital part of Capella Healthcares ethics and compliance program.

Challenge: Care Continuum

AHA Solution Partner: Copyright Licensing Solutions

Case Study - Carle Foundation Hospital

Case Study

Learn how the license keeps critical information flowing freely for Carle Foundation Hospital.

Challenge: Care Continuum, Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Copyright Licensing Solutions

Copyright at Work Video

Other

Watch a brief video overview of license and copyright basics in the workplace.

Challenge: Care Continuum, Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Copyright Licensing Solutions

OnCopyright Education

FAQ Sheet

Find out about upcoming copyright education sessions from CCC.

Challenge: Care Continuum, Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Copyright Licensing Solutions

Capital Allocation and Management Advisory Services

Article

Although the quantification of specific reform requirements is still emerging, it is clear that hospitals and health systems will be under increased pressure to allocate capital to the right new initiatives and to ongoing facility and equipment needs. They will also need to tightly manage implementation costs associated with these initiatives. The improved allocation and management of capital are key components of success in the New Era.

Challenge: Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Integrated, Strategic & Financial Advisory Services

Integrated Financial Planning

Article

Healthcare providers are under intense pressure to simultaneously respond to a host of potentially expensive strategies related to physicians, facilities, service distribution, information technology, and other capital investments. Executives require tools that can help them manage these shifting variables and competing demands across the entire enterprise and maintain the integrity of their financial plan.

Challenge: Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Integrated, Strategic & Financial Advisory Services

New Era Impact Modeling Service

Article

The changing economics of healthcare resulting from the financial crisis, reform legislation, and other market forces are certain to have a dramatic effect on providers in the coming months and years. A reduction in payment rates from both governmental and commercial payors is one clear development on the horizon.

Challenge: Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Integrated, Strategic & Financial Advisory Services

Physician Compensation Modeling

Article

Integrated hospital-physician arrangements are critical to the future success of healthcare providers in the New Era, but the financial impact of integrating these operations represents a growing challenge for hospital budgets.

Challenge: Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Integrated, Strategic & Financial Advisory Services

Physician-Hospital Integration Services

Article

Integrated physician-hospital arrangements, which align clinical and financial interests, are critical to the future success of health care providers in the New Era. Is your organization effectively aligned?

Challenge: Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Integrated, Strategic & Financial Advisory Services

Productivity Reporting

Article

With cost management and quality outcomes a greater concern than ever before in the New Era, hospital executives must become more proactive in managing their human resources to ensure they have the right number of professionals staffed in the right department at the right time.

Challenge: Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Integrated, Strategic & Financial Advisory Services

Service Distribution Planning

Article

Whether your organization is a large, multihospital system with facilities in one or more states or a small system with numerous facilities in one region, creating a rational service distribution system is key to success in the New Era.

Challenge: Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Integrated, Strategic & Financial Advisory Services

Strategic Partnering Advisory Services for Community Hospitals

Article

The environment in which health care providers are operating is more difficult than ever, with the landscape characterized by serious revenue constraints; growing competition; reduced capital access; higher borrowing costs; and increasing capital requirements for facility improvements, information technology, service line and physician strategies, and quality initiatives.

Challenge: Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Integrated, Strategic & Financial Advisory Services

Strategic Partnering Buy-Side Advisory Services

Article

In an increasingly competitive and financially constrained environment, health care leaders must identify and pursue growth opportunities that will improve their organizations strategic financial performance. Acquiring or merging with another organization frequently offers advantages that exceed those of other strategies.

Challenge: Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Integrated, Strategic & Financial Advisory Services

The AHA Endorses the Patient Hand-Off Solution from Vocera

Press Release

Improve hand-off performance, at change of shift, during patient transfers, and at physician sign-out , minimizing error and missed connections

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Immediate Response Communication Systems

Web Demonstration: Cisco Mobility Solutions for Healthcare

Other

Wireless and unified communication tools improve health care delivery by providing secure wireless, mobile care applications and location-aware services.

Challenge: Clinical Integration

AHA Solution Partner: Wireless Networking Products

Improving Organizational Commitment and Retention: Employee Selection

Whitepaper

Effective staffing can have a positive impact on employee retention. As a result, it is critical to evaluate and improve this process.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Behavioral Assessments

The AHA Endorses Process Improvement & Innovation Services from BMGI

Press Release

BMGI uses Lean Six Sigma, Change Management and Innovation and trains staff, streamlining operations, creating self-sufficiency and reducing costs

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Performance Improvement & Innovation Services

Web Demonstration: IronPort PXE Encryption

Other

Mobile technology and WLAN solutions provide intelligent alerts, telemetry data, and location information to deliver patient care more efficiently.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Secure Messaging Services

The AHA Endorses IT Strategic Consulting Services from Peer Consulting

Press Release

Peer Consulting provides strategic consulting in health information management and ARRA/HITECH and significant experience in health care operations and IT

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: IT Strategic Consulting Services

MedsTracker Excels in Physician Adoption at Valley Medical Center

Case Study

When The Joint Commission first initiated the new patient safety goal for medication reconciliation in 2005, it prompted VMC to carefully review its medication reconciliation processes.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Medication Reconciliation Software

The AHA Endorses SayIt Speech Recognition Solution from nVoq

Press Release

Voice recognition and dictation accelerate the adoption of EMRs by providing health care users a more efficient way to capture patient encounter information

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Voice Recognition

The AHA Endorses Emergency Preparedness and Management from LiveProcess

Press Release

LiveProcess is a web-based application that helps hospitals and health care organizations prepare for and manage their response to disasters and events

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Emergency Preparedness & Emergency Management

Medical Center Improves Customer Satisfaction with Wayfinding Solutions from CS&G

Article

St. Anthony's addresses cumbersome signs: Type sizes that were too small, text that was too long, and terminology that was neither consistent nor systematic.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Wayfinding

Quest vWorkspace Tap In, Tap Out and Tap Over Sign-On Demonstration

Other

Quest vWorkspace manages, secures and provisions virtual desktop environments as well as broker connections.

Challenge: Clinical Integration

AHA Solution Partner: Desktop Virtualization

The AHA Endorses vWorkspace for Desktop Virtualization from Quest

Press Release

Consolidates multiple desktop virtualization techniques and technologies for centralized management from a single console, saving time and resources

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Desktop Virtualization

The AHA Endorses RFID IR Patient, Staff and Asset Tracking from Versus

Press Release

Track time and patients, perform real-time bed management and alert staff to safety concerns related to patient volume, infection control or staff

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Infrared Identification Patient, Staff and Asset Tracking

News Clip: Hospitals Now Offering Concierge Services

Article

Some medical centers are offering patients Concierge Services to take some of the worry out of a hospital stay.

Challenge: Care Continuum, Cultural Transformation

AHA Solution Partner: Concierge Services

The AHA Endorses WM's Integrated Environmental Services for Health Care

Press Release

A comprehensive suite manages waste streams, including recyclables; medical, pharma, universal, hazardous waste; confidential documents, construction materials.

Challenge: Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Integrated Environmental Services for Healthcare

Case Study: West Jefferson Medical Center

Case Study

Innovative discharge medication bedside delivery supports patient satisfaction, medication compliance and quality goals.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Medication Reconciliation Software

Specialized Accident Insurance Protection

Other

A cost-effective option for insuring hospital volunteers and student nurses injured performing authorized volunteer and student nurse activities.

Challenge: Care Continuum, Cultural Transformation

AHA Solution Partner: Accident Insurance for Volunteers & Student Nurses

Pacific Medical Centers Cuts Wait Time, Boosts Net Revenue with RTLS

Case Study

Versus Technology provides real-time tracking and automated workflow guidance for patients, staff, and equipment.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Infrared Identification Patient, Staff and Asset Tracking

Vecna Kiosk ROI Calculator Acute Care Facilities

Tool

QC Kiosk from Vecna Medical: Streamline health care delivery, increase revenue, improve patient safety and satisfaction, customize workflow.

Challenge: Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Kiosks & Portal Solutions

Navigating Healthcare's New Era

Tool

As the New Era in healthcare emerges, providers will need new organizational competencies to gain a broader and deeper understanding of significant strategic issues.

Challenge: Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Integrated, Strategic & Financial Advisory Services

Forward-Focused Talent: Competencies for the New Business Landscape

Article

Health care reform is undeniably changing the business landscape of this industry and necessitating a change in behavior from its professionals.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Selection Solutions & Services

The AHA Endorses Data Center Hosting Services from CaretTech Solutions

Press Release

SAS 70 Type 2 Tier III Plus data center facilities and LEED gold certified green facility are designed to meet health care information management needs

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Data Center Hosting Services

Hospital Pulse Report 2008: Enhancing the Patient Experience

Advertorial

Concierge services can help hospital staff better respond to patient needs, increasingly the likelihood of hospital recommendation.

Challenge: Care Continuum, Cultural Transformation

AHA Solution Partner: Concierge Services

Healthcare 2010 - Concierge Services: What We're About

Flyer

Gas stops, dry cleaning runs and groceries are a few ways Best Upon Request is helping employees manage their busy schedules.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Concierge Services

FAQ: The AHA-Endorsed Concierge Services from Best Upon Request

FAQ Sheet

Increased interest in patient concierge services due to the competitive health care environment and related focus on patient satisfaction.

Challenge: Care Continuum, Cultural Transformation

AHA Solution Partner: Concierge Services

What's New in Quest vWorkspace 7.2

Other

Read the material to become familiar with new features and review further information about them in the Quest vWorkspace version 7.2 product documentation.

Challenge: Clinical Integration

AHA Solution Partner: Desktop Virtualization

Desktop Virtualization: Simplified Management, Enhanced User Experience

Flyer

Quest vWorkspace supports multiple desktop virtualization technologies and brings them together in one console, one access point, and one client.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Desktop Virtualization

Background Checks: More Restrictions, New Challenges

Article

The need for background checks is clear, but the type of checks health care providers can conduct and how that information is used is less clear.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Background Screening & Drug Testing

Mobilizing Next-Generation Healthcare Delivery

Whitepaper

AT&T Healthcare Community Online is a pre-integrated cloud-based HIE designed to facilitate the secure internal and external exchange of patient data.

Challenge: Clinical Integration, Care Continuum

AHA Solution Partner: Health Information Exchange, Voice, Data Networking & Wireless Services

Employee Development and Engagement Achieves Organization Effectiveness

Article

Norton Healthcare is bucking the trend uncovered in this research by engaging its individual contributors to drive organizational excellence.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Selection Solutions & Services

Concierge Services: Innovative Approach to Patient Satisfaction

Executive Summary

In this AHA Solutions webinar, two hospitals share utilization data through 2010 and ROI from implementation of Concierge Services.

Challenge: Care Continuum, Financial Sustainability, Cultural Transformation

AHA Solution Partner: Concierge Services

Waste Management: Experts in Medical Waste

Advertorial

Leading environmental services and recycling company helps health care organizations reduce waste, lower costs, and find savings to bolster bottom line.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Integrated Environmental Services for Healthcare

Healthcare MarketMPact: Education, Research, Strategic Marketing Expertise

Flyer

A full-service strategic consulting group of AHA Solutions educates and help you bring innovative, emerging products to the hospital market.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Bringing Innovative Products to the Hospital Market

Driving Value Across Enterprise Document Management: A Core IT System

Case Study

Survey results and case studies highlight hospital perception, use and benefit of document and content management solutions as part of its IT infrastructure.

Challenge: Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Enterprise Document Management Software

Peer-to-Peer Roundtable on Innovative Workforce Strategies: Achieving Operational Excellence

Flyer

As hospitals face challenges in increasing employee engagement, integrating new leadership, and managing cultural change, this peer-to-peer roundtable brought together hospital executives to share information and results.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner:

MedsTracker Is Key Patient Safety Strategy at Alegent Health

Case Study

Alegent sought to automate as many steps of electronic medication reconciliation as possible, so physicians have more time for critical thinking.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Medication Reconciliation Software

Effective Employee Coaching Starts with Human Resources

Article

Health Care Focus: Strategic talent management and its impact on organizational performance and employee retention.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Employee Performance Management Software

Regional Coordination Platform for Health Care Emergency Management

Press Release

The new LiveProcess interface enables better community preparedness, compliance, and response, and is the only dedicated regional offering for healthcare

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Emergency Preparedness & Emergency Management

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Incentivizing Investments in Healthcare

Whitepaper

AT&T concurs that HIT will play a transformational role in eliminating redundancies, improving quality of care, increasing collaboration, and reducing the number of medical errors. The ARRA incentive money will act as a catalyst to achieve the objective that all Americans have an electronic health record (EHR) by 2014.3 To receive any ARRA incentive money, healthcare providers must make "meaningful use" of HIT via a "qualified or certified EHR". This paper explores who the stakeholders are, how funds will be allocated, what certification might look like, and where AT&T can assist in this revolutionary shift on healthcare delivery.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Health Information Exchange, Voice, Data Networking & Wireless Services

Patient Concierge Services

Flyer

With a shifting focus to patient- and family-centered care, hospitals are constantly looking for ways to enhance the patient experience. Hospitals offering concierge services have seen increased patient satisfaction, as it allows patients and their families to focus on the most critical aspect of their stay, the patients recovery.

Challenge: Care Continuum

AHA Solution Partner: Concierge Services

On-Demand Identity Management

Whitepaper

AT&T Healthcare Community Online (HCO) provides an on-demand solution for health care that minimizes taxing your organization's resources and time.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Health Information Exchange, Voice, Data Networking & Wireless Services

Waste Managements Vernon Medical Waste Processing Facility in CA

Case Study

The largest permitted medical waste processing facility in CA uses advanced autoclave technology to provides safe, assured treatment of medical waste.

Challenge: Clinical Integration, Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Integrated Environmental Services for Healthcare

Cultural Change: Address Disruptive Behavior and Improve Patient Outcome

Article

Employee engagement, fiscal performance and clinical outcome drive the need to eliminate disruptive behavior; four approaches help create the culture to do so.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Selection Solutions & Services

Health System Cuts Processing Procurement by 85% with ECM

Case Study

MetroHealth decided to eliminate paper and automate processes with a document management system, OnBase, to integrate its paper and enterprise systems.

Challenge: Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Enterprise Document Management Software

Health System Cuts Processing Time in Procurement by 85 percent, saves 80 Hours in HR

Case Study

Health System Cuts Processing Time in Procurement by 85 percent, saves 80 Hours in HR

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner:

Waste Management: Finding Savings in What You Throw Away

Advertorial

Cut costs without impacting quality of care. Waste Management gets you started: Recycle, Segregate, Review multivendor costs, and Reduce warehouse needs.

Challenge: Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Integrated Environmental Services for Healthcare

Strategy Trumps Shortage: Retain a Highly-Skilled Nursing Workforce

Executive Summary

Learn Monongalia County General Hospital's strategies to retain professionals, delay nurse retirement, engage nurses, and foster longevity and loyalty.

Challenge: Cultural Transformation

AHA Solution Partner: Employee Performance Management Software

Incident Action Planning for Hospitals

Whitepaper

This white paper will suggests steps for developing an incident action plan, including tools hospitals can use in the planning and response process.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Emergency Preparedness & Emergency Management

Healthcare Provider Increases Business Agility

Case Study

Moses Cone Health System deployed Unified Computing System as part of the transition to electronic medical records.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Wireless Networking Products

403(b) Plans and Current ERISA Fiduciary Best Practices

Whitepaper

The paper focuses on areas where application of ERISA fiduciary duties to 403(b) plans creates special situations that do not occur with 401(k) plans.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Retirement Plans

Health Cares Triple Bottom Line: Caring for People, Profits, Planet

Advertorial

A health care organizations good environmental and social behavior has to make sense financially or it's doomed before it ever gets off the ground.

Challenge: Financial Sustainability, Cultural Transformation

AHA Solution Partner: Integrated Environmental Services for Healthcare

Your Readmission Review Process: The Best Defense Is a Good Offense

Executive Summary

AHA Solutions Signature Learning Series Webinar discusses: View from Washington; Setting the Stage: Overview of Readmissions; Borgess Medical Center Case Study.

Challenge: Care Continuum

AHA Solution Partner: Clinical Revenue Cycle Management

Case Study: Health Care Provider Expands Nursing Home Mobility

Case Study

Life Care uses Cisco to provide a complete end-to-end project solution, including intuitive management software and an experienced integration team.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Wireless Networking Products

Howard Regional Health System Remedies Email Archiving and Migration

Case Study

Quest Archive Manager helps store and manage messaging information while controlling growth, enforcing policies for compliance and enabling email discovery.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Email Archiving

Email Security Technology Overview: Cisco IronPort Email Encryption

FAQ Sheet

Meets compliance requirements for email encryption, with powerful new email control features in an easy-to-use, broad-reaching, and affordable offering.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Secure Messaging Services

RFID Hospital Case Study: Detailed Equipment Reports, Quick Response

Article

Genesis Health System applied AeroScout tags to infusion pumps, wheelchairs and stretchers, making a disaster drill run safely, efficiently, and cost effectively.

Challenge: Care Continuum, Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Wi-Fi RTLS Patient, Staff and Asset Tracking & Wander Prevention

What's New in Wayfinding? Developments in Hospital Signage

Advertorial

Wayfinding Solutions from CS&G now includes green design, handheld technologies, hi-def displays, LEP, maps and guides, kiosks, and online info.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Wayfinding

CyraCom Helps Healthcare Providers Cut Costs and Improve ADA Compliance

Case Study

Live access for health care providers to nationally certified ASL interpreters to facilitate communication with patients who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Interpretation & Translation Services

The AHA Endorses Risk MonitorPro from RL Solutions

Press Release

A web-based incident and adverse event management system that allows users to easily submit, refine, analyze and communicate critical incident information

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner:

Wi-Fi-based RFID Solutions Improve Hospital Care and Efficiency

Case Study

Case Study: Belgium's Jan Yperman Hospital uses RFID to ensure efficient use of equipment, quick location of disoriented patients and safety of nursing staff.

Challenge: Care Continuum

AHA Solution Partner: Wi-Fi RTLS Patient, Staff and Asset Tracking & Wander Prevention

Wi-Fi-Based Temperature Monitoring for Safety and Regulatory Compliance

Case Study

St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center deploys an AeroScout wireless temperature monitoring solution that leverages its Cisco Unified Wireless Network.

Challenge: Care Continuum

AHA Solution Partner: Wi-Fi RTLS Patient, Staff and Asset Tracking & Wander Prevention

The AHA Endorses Integrated Wayfinding Solutions from CS&G

Press Release

Cooper Signage and Graphics' helps hospital visitors orient themselves in a health care setting through exterior and interior signage systems

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Wayfinding

Case Study: Shands HealthCare Implements LiveProcess

Case Study

LiveProcess allowed interaction with emergency management personnel, who provided updates and coordinated the transfer of patients from fire-ravaged areas.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Emergency Preparedness & Emergency Management

Case Study: Methodist Healthcare of San Antonio Enhances JCAHO Compliance

Case Study

PolicyTech's Policy and Procedure Manager software stores data with a robust search engine, automates review and approval system and infuses media.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Policy & Procedure Management Software & Services

LiveProcess helps Riverside County, CA Improve Response to H1N1 Outbreak

Case Study

LiveProcess is the market leader in web-based emergency preparedness and incident management solutions for health care.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Emergency Preparedness & Emergency Management

Vecna Kiosk FAQ

Tool

Vecna aligns kiosk technology with end user needs, while ensuring that clinical stakeholders stay connected at each critical point of patient interaction.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Kiosks & Portal Solutions

Solution Brochure: Vecna Kiosks

Flyer

QC Kiosk from Vecna Medical: Streamline health care delivery, increase revenue, improve patient safety and satisfaction, customize workflow.

Challenge: Care Continuum, Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Kiosks & Portal Solutions

Improving Heart Failure Outcomes through Interactive Patient Care: The Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital Experience

Case Study

This white paper examines the Heart Failure treatment experience of Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital (SVBGH), Virginia Beach, VA. This hospital, whose Heart Failure outcomes had traditionally mirrored national data, leveraged existing Interactive Patient Care (IPC) technology to create a Heart Failure Interactive Care Plan, an automated, interactive pathway that closely involved Heart Failure patients during every step of their care, from point of admission, to point of discharge, and beyond.

Challenge: Care Continuum

AHA Solution Partner: Interactive Patient Care

Making a Case for Automated Talent Management

Whitepaper

The Georgia Quality Initiative finds LTC facilities with happy employees have greater patient satisfaction and safety.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Employee Performance Management Software

Background Checks: An Essential Risk Management Tool

Article

Background checks on all new hires and a program of regular inquiry about possible staff sanctions and criminal behavior limits employer liability.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Background Screening & Drug Testing

ECM-EMR Integration Realizes Local and Global Interoperability

Case Study

Cleveland Clinic reaches beyond simple data exchange to share information regardless of location or facility, vendor or machine, file type or origin.

Challenge: Clinical Integration, Care Continuum

AHA Solution Partner: Enterprise Document Management Software

Health System Builds Highly Available Wired and Wireless Network

Case Study

Baptist Health South Florida uses a Cisco Medical-Grade Network to safeguard the reliability and uptime of critical hospital services and applications.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Wireless Networking Products

Orlando Health Streamlines Email Archiving with Quest

Case Study

Archive Manager meets requirements for scalability, openness end user transparency and boasts a noninvasive technology that requires little configuration.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Email Archiving

Health Care Employee Performance Management Solution

Flyer

Halogen eAppraisal Healthcare offers organizations an affordable and convenient way to automate time-consuming, paper-based appraisal processes.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Employee Performance Management Software

The AHA Endorses Interpretation and Translation Solutions from Cyracom

Press Release

A critical tool for hospitals struggling with the medical consequences of communicating with patients with Limited English Proficiency (LEP)

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Interpretation & Translation Services

Cisco Context-Aware Health Care Solution

Flyer

Hospitals improve operational efficiency by integrating real-time contextual information, location and status of medical equipment and staff, into the workflow.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Wireless Networking Products

The AHA Endorses the Concierge Services from Best Upon Request

Press Release

Onsite concierge services from Best Upon Request uncomplicated life by fulfilling the day-to-day needs of hospital staff, patients and visitors.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Concierge Services

Achieve Excellence through Employee Performance and Talent Management

Case Study

This IDC study investigates how CentraState Healthcare System leveraged Halogen Software's employee performance and talent management solution.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Employee Performance Management Software

Whitepaper: Electronic System Supports CMS Never Event Initiative

Whitepaper

Facilitate mandatory reporting requirements from governing bodies, heighten the success of patient safety initiatives and improve the culture of safety within health care.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner:

Minneapolis Medical Center Prepares for Next-Generation Mobility

Case Study

Hennepin County Medical Center improves patient care services with Cisco 802.11n support for bandwidth-rich services.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Wireless Networking Products

Key Performance Metrics for Intelligent Equipment and Business Decisions

Advertorial

KPMs enable an organization to buy best-in-class assets, utilize the highest quality service providers, and lower the total cost of ownership.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Equipment Asset Management Program

Safe Patient Handling: Senate Bill 1525 Texas

Whitepaper

ARJO/DILIGENT outline the bill and provide information on compliance so that hospitals reap the benefits of a well designed program.

Challenge: Cultural Transformation

AHA Solution Partner: Safe Patient Handling

Healthcare Organization Achieves 100% On-Time Employee Performance Appraisals

Case Study

Halogen's eAppraisal automates employee performance appraisal process, improving overall value, completion rates and strategic alignment.

Challenge: Cultural Transformation

AHA Solution Partner: Employee Performance Management Software

Lifecycle Management of Capital Assets

Whitepaper

To navigate through federal regulations, payers, suppliers, other hospitals and patients, its crucial to optimize management of noncore business activities.

Challenge: Financial Sustainability, Cultural Transformation

AHA Solution Partner: Equipment Asset Management Program

Health System Builds Tech Foundation, Delivers State-of-the-Art Care

Case Study

Adena uses Cisco switching, security, and wireless to bring vital info bedside, improve quality of care, and support advanced video and telemedicine services.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Wireless Networking Products

The AHA Endorses Procedure Management Software from PolicyTech

Press Release

Policy & Procedure Manager software allows effective coordination and management of all the policies and procedures instituted throughout a hospital.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Policy & Procedure Management Software & Services

AcqHire Solutions to Hire and Promote the Best

Flyer

DDI's AcqHire solution suite improves every critical step in the hiring process: Strong Start, Targeted Selection, Job Simulations, Screening and Testing.

Challenge: Cultural Transformation

AHA Solution Partner: Selection Solutions & Services

Policy Management Simplified

Flyer

PolicyTech has created an automated software solution that changes the way organizations manage policies and procedures. PolicyTech's Policy and Procedure Manager is the leading software package that has been designed to make the complex simple. Find out what hundreds of other leading organizations and hospitals already know - PolicyTech means compliance automation.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Policy & Procedure Management Software & Services

Policy Management Simplified: PolicyTech's Policy and Procedure Manager

FAQ Sheet

PolicyTech means compliance automation, helping health care organizations successfully adapt to new regulations, expanding policy and increased risk.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Policy & Procedure Management Software & Services

San Juan Regional Medical Center - PolicyTech Case Study

Case Study

PolicyTech helped SJRMC connect its policies to its seven outside health care facilities and improve its policy management system.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Policy & Procedure Management Software & Services

Healthcare Exit Assessment Survey

Advertorial

Increasing numbers of healthcare organizations are trusting HR Solutions to conduct their Exit Assessments, which offers the following fundamental advantages.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Employee Engagement/Exit Survey

The AHA endorses the Employee Exit Surveys from HR Solutions

Press Release

The AHA-endorsed solution is an outcomes-based consulting approach to retention issues that seamlessly integrates engagement and exit data.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Employee Engagement/Exit Survey

HSI Healthcare Selection Inventory

Flyer

HSI is a behavioral assessment designed and validated to help health care organizations select candidates who are most likely to be successful.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Behavioral Assessments

The AHA Endorses Healthcare Selection Inventory from TestSource

Press Release

HSI is a behavioral assessment designed and validated to help health care organizations select candidates who are most likely to be successful.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Behavioral Assessments

Cisco Mobile Care Solution for Healthcare

Flyer

This solution enables hospitals to improve their workflows and patient service, in addition to improving caregiver communication and collaboration.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Wireless Networking Products

Five Steps to Best Conduct Employee Engagement/Satisfaction Surveys

Advertorial

HR Solutions is an Employee Engagement/Satisfaction Survey specialist offering robust action planning and reporting solutions with actionable results.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Employee Engagement/Exit Survey

HR Solutions At a Glance

Other

HR Solutions is an Employee Engagement/Satisfaction Survey specialist offering robust action planning and reporting solutions with actionable results.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Employee Engagement/Exit Survey

SIS and the Joint Commission 2008 National Patient Safety Goals

Flyer

The purpose of the Joint Commissions National Patient Safety Goals is to promote specific improvements in patient safety. The Goals presented in this document highlight problematic areas in healthcare and describe evidence- and expert-based solutions to these issues.

Challenge: Care Continuum

AHA Solution Partner: Surgical Information Systems, Surgery, Management</br>& Anesthesia

Voice, Text, Images, and Information, Delivered to the Point of Care

Advertorial

Mobility Solutions for Healthcare from Cisco provide secure wireless mobile care applications and location-aware services, supporting caregivers on the go.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Wireless Networking Products

Email Archiving: Automated, Efficient, Cost Effective

Case Study

Case Study: Palmetto Health chooses Quest Archive Manager to automate email archiving and ensure legal compliance.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Email Archiving

Health Care System Uses ECM in Clinical and Business Settings

Case Study

Sharp Healthcare System implemented an OnBase solution to maintain high service levels for patients and caregivers and increase operational efficiency.

Challenge: Care Continuum, Financial Sustainability, Cultural Transformation

AHA Solution Partner: Enterprise Document Management Software

Augmenting EMR for Efficiency and Compliance

Case Study

MeritCare augments its system to meet EMR initiative priorities and improve processes in revenue management and the durable medical equipment subsidiary.

Challenge: Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Enterprise Document Management Software

Unified Wireless Network: Exceptional Mobility, Simple Wireless Networking

Advertorial

Cisco addresses business and technical challenges of healthcare organizations with secure, instantaneous communication and information sharing.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Wireless Networking Products

Cisco Collaborative Care Lets Physicians Reach Isolated Populations

Case Study

Audio and video conferencing technologies interconnect teams or individuals on demand for greater efficiency, better decisions and more effective care.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Wireless Networking Products

AHA Solutions, Inc. Hospital Risk Transfer Survey April, 2007

Other

Our goal for this survey was to develop a solid grasp of liability solutions being employed currently by AHA hospitals.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Professional Liability Claims & Litigation Management

Suburban Hospital EMR Improves Patient Care and HIM Processes

Case Study

EMR allows Suburban Hospital Healthcare System to create secure, comprehensive patient records and increase operational efficiency for processes.

Challenge: Clinical Integration

AHA Solution Partner: Enterprise Document Management Software

The AHA Endorses PatientLife System from GetWellNetwork

Press Release

Using a touch screen monitor, patients access information about their care, communicate with caregivers and entertainment opportunities

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Interactive Patient Care

HR Solutions At a Glance

Flyer

HR Solutions is an Employee Engagement/Satisfaction Survey specialist offering robust action planning and reporting solutions with actionable results.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner:

Establish a Health Care Organization Leadership Development Curriculum

Case Study

Presbyterian conducted interviews to determine specific behaviors that set the best leaders apart then built a leadership development initiative accordingly.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Selection Solutions & Services

Case Study: Bassett Healthcare Increases Surgical Charge Capture

Case Study

Surgical Information Systems provides functionality to plan, deliver, manage and measure clinical and financial outcomes of surgical services.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Surgical Information Systems, Surgery, Management</br>& Anesthesia

Client Testimonials: Diligent Team Implementation and Support

Other

Clients share how the Diligent program eases the physical demands on nurses, resulting in injury reduction and return on investment.

Challenge: Care Continuum

AHA Solution Partner: Safe Patient Handling

Build Best Practices into Your Hiring and Promotion Processes

FAQ Sheet

AcqHireSM for Health Care consists of four integratable components: Success ProfilesSM, Screening and Testing, Interviewing, and On-boarding.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Selection Solutions & Services

Deploying Enterprise Content Management Across a Healthcare Organization

Whitepaper

Allina Hospitals & Clinics adopt OnBase ECM software suite from Hyland Software as a system-wide standard for its EDMS solution.

Challenge: Clinical Integration, Care Continuum

AHA Solution Partner: Enterprise Document Management Software

Protocol for Safe Use of Patient Handling Slings: Does One Size Fit All?

Article

Review of types and uses of slings to provide safety and comfort suggestions for choosing the optimal sling based on the patients condition.

Challenge: Care Continuum

AHA Solution Partner: Safe Patient Handling

The Benefits of Online Policy and Procedure Management

Article

Automated risk management systems support sound health care practices in compliance and accreditation, document management, education and patient safety.

Challenge:

AHA Solution Partner: Policy & Procedure Management Software & Services

Integrated Approach to Prevention of Back Injuries in Health Care Workers

Article

Safety/health/ergonomic professionals have looked to the classic hierarchy of controls to mitigate hazards in the workplace.

Challenge: Care Continuum

AHA Solution Partner: Safe Patient Handling

Cisco Secure Wireless: Extending the Network to the Point of Care

Flyer

Health care organizations can confidently access medical applications and services, like EHRs, decision support, e-prescribing, and e-research.

Challenge: Clinical Integration

AHA Solution Partner: Wireless Networking Products

Content Management Adoption Goes Hospital-Wide and Beyond

Case Study

Using Hylands OnBase solution, Asprius Hospitals is able to have all patient information in a single place and prepares for a potential RAC audit.

Challenge: Financial Sustainability

AHA Solution Partner: Enterprise Document Management Software