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Times are Changing – What’s Fuelling the Move to Automate Patient Assignment?

An interview with Rhonda Cook, Regional Sales Manager, on automating patient assignment.   Malachi: You’re having conversations with medical professionals on the daily. Who is primarily responsible for patient assignment at the healthcare organizations and physician groups you speak to?   Rhonda: It varies. In some cases, it’s the hospitalist or at night, the nocturnist.    In other cases, it’s admin personnel who have…
Malachi Charbonneau
September 8, 2022
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Why Healthcare Organizations Believe Patient Assignment is so Complex

An interview with Scott Hopkins, Sales Executive, on the complexity of patient assignment processes.   Malachi: Scott, you’re speaking with healthcare organizations of different sizes and specialties on the daily. Have you observed any common threads between them in terms of their patient assignment processes?  Scott: One of the observations I’ve made from speaking with healthcare organizations of varying sizes across…
Malachi Charbonneau
August 25, 2022
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Top 5 Articles on the Benefits of Automating Your Daily Patient Assignment Process

We hear it from prospects every day – daily patient assignment is an administrative burden. It puts a drag on productivity and unbalanced patient workloads contribute to healthcare professional burnout. There is a better way. The better way involves automating your patient assignment process using a set of intelligent, customized rules while leaving the final approval in your hands and reducing the process to…
Malachi Charbonneau
August 12, 2022
BlogDr. Secan's Insights

Change Management: How To Roll Out a New Process or Workflow Without Inciting a Revolt?

So, you’ve decided to make some changes.  What’s the best way to be effective while doing so?  A recent experience with administration trying to change physician workflow (with regrettable results) has me thinking about the best way to make changes (and not this kind of change).  Change management is a big subject, but if you’re a leader in your organization,…
Ryan Secan
August 1, 2022
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How To Reduce Medical Professional Exhaustion and Improve Patient Care

Becker’s recently published an article on the Top 5 health IT issues, according to CIOs that caught my attention. They asked hospital system technology leaders: What are your most-pressing health IT issues this year?   Joel Klein, MD, senior vice president and CIO of Baltimore-based University of Maryland Medical System says, "Nurses, doctors, therapists, lab techs, pharmacists — basically, everyone who…
Malachi Charbonneau
July 20, 2022
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Medaptus Named One of the Top 10 Revenue Cycle Management Solutions in 2022

Medaptus has been named one of the Top 10 Revenue Cycle Management Solutions 2022 for its performance technology and workflow optimization capabilities.   Black Book Research, a full-service healthcare-centric market research and public opinion research company, surveyed 1,100 health system financial managers on such topics as customer satisfaction and performance to identify the top 10 revenue cycle management solutions for 2022.    …
Malachi Charbonneau
July 4, 2022
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Stop Letting Hospital Revenue Slip Through the Cracks

A round-up of our top 6 articles on how to capture all of your hospital revenue.  Hospitals lose 3-5% of their revenue each year due to insufficient clinical documentation and inaccurate coding, according to HFMA. This is a significant loss even in the best of times. As we enter a phase of financial limitations, capturing this missing 3-5% will become…
Malachi Charbonneau
June 23, 2022
Patient Assignment ProcessesBlog

Inefficient Patient Assignment Processes, Fallout from Provider Turnover, and Complex Workflows are Top of Mind for Hospitals Today

Last month, I attended the Society of Hospital Medicine’s four-day Leadership Academy in Arizona, where Hospitalists across the country came together to gain essential leadership skills not often taught in medical schools or residencies.   Scott Hopkins, a Regional Sales Manager here at Medaptus, and I had the pleasure of speaking with many attendees who stopped by the Medaptus table about…
Malachi Charbonneau
June 16, 2022
Infusion CodingBlog

5 Benefits of an Automated, EHR-Integrated Infusion Charging Solution

Our Charge Infusion solution automates the coding of outpatient intravenous infusions of medicine or fluids. To compute a visit's charge, our system needs data inputs of time, infusion type, and medication, which can be pulled from an EHR like Epic or Cerner. This article explains how we integrate with Epic and Cerner and the benefits to nurses, informatics, and the…
Gary Bernklow
June 8, 2022
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Still Doing Manual Work Even After Your Morning Assignments are Complete? Integrating Medaptus with your EHR

Your morning assignments are complete, now what?   Even after you’ve created your morning rounding lists, the work isn’t complete. You still have to:   Assign patients throughout the day   Update new provider relationships  Update and move patients onto specific rounding teams  Log into multiple places to get an accurate view of your census (ER admits, ICU downgrades, etc.)   The result? A…
Jeff Cibotti
June 2, 2022
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