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Hospitals and Care Systems of the Future
AHA Committee on Performance Improvement identifies must-do, priority strategies & core organizational competencies organizations should establish to remain successful.
Challenge: Cultural Transformation
AHA Solution Partner:
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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.
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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.
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AHA Solution Partner: Behavioral Assessments
Cisco Mobile Care Solution for Healthcare
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This solution enables hospitals to improve their workflows and patient service, in addition to improving caregiver communication and collaboration.
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AHA Solution Partner: Wireless Networking Products
Five Steps to Best Conduct Employee Engagement/Satisfaction Surveys
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HR Solutions is an Employee Engagement/Satisfaction Survey specialist offering robust action planning and reporting solutions with actionable results.
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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.
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AHA Solution Partner: Employee Engagement/Exit Survey
SIS and the Joint Commission 2008 National Patient Safety Goals
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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AHA Solution Partner: Wireless Networking Products
AHA Solutions, Inc. Hospital Risk Transfer Survey April, 2007
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Our goal for this survey was to develop a solid grasp of liability solutions being employed currently by AHA hospitals.
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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
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AHA Solution Partner: Interactive Patient Care
HR Solutions At a Glance
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HR Solutions is an Employee Engagement/Satisfaction Survey specialist offering robust action planning and reporting solutions with actionable results.
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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.
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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.
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AHA Solution Partner: Surgical Information Systems, Surgery, Management</br>& Anesthesia
Client Testimonials: Diligent Team Implementation and Support
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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.
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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.
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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
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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