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Five Best Practices for Effective Critical Care Management
Picis, Inc.
The need for effective critical care management is more urgent today than ever before. Trends in population demographics, healthcare labor, and patient resource needs are all creating a “perfect storm” that requires a new approach to managing Intensive Care Units (ICU). This white paper will examine five best practices for effective critical care management which impact patient care, clinical ...
 
The Effects of Anesthesia Documentation on the Generation of APR-DRG Classifications
DocuSys, Inc.
Anesthesiologists routinely document the comprehensive medical history of surgical patients as part of their preoperative assessment. This assessment has universally become a primary source of information for hospitals ever since it was demonstrated that it significantly increased comorbid documentation. However, this assessment is typically completed in clinical terms that are nebulous to the ...
 
The Effects of Anesthesia Documentation on the Generation of DRG and APR-DRG Classifications in an Academic MC in the SE
DocuSys, Inc.
The Effects of Anesthesia Documentation On the Generation of DRG and APR-DRG Classifications in an Academic Medical Center in the Southeast Jerry Stonemetz MD, John Ulatowsky MD, Robert Marino MD, Melody Ritter MD, David Sumrall MD Anesthesiologists participating in a study to determine the effects of a digital encoder (DocuSys, Mobile, AL) on the documentation of comorbid conditions on 200 ...
 
A Key Opportunity for ROV: Capturing Comorbid Condition Documentation
DocuSys, Inc.
Hospitals aggressively encourage physicians to document their patients’ comorbid medical conditions to enhance patient safety and provide enough information for hospital coders to determine the most appropriate diagnostic-related groups (DRGs) for inpatient and outpatient services. Not only can inadequate communication of co-existing patient illness lead to medical errors, which ultimately ...
 
Enterprise Revenue Management: Reinventing How Health Systems Manage Revenue and Can Improve the Economics of Care
McKesson Provider Technologies
Shrinking margins. Escalating debt. Uncollected payments. These are just a few of the challenges that keep a healthcare executive up at night and struggling to keep hospital doors open. But with the healthcare industry treading water under the weight of considerable financial strain, it’s an unpleasant reality for many. Not only is it difficult to admit defeat but it is even more disconcerting to ...
 

Anesthesia Video

Hear What Jeffery Plagenhoef, MD Has to Say About the DocuSys System DocuSys, Inc. Dr. Jeff Plagenhoef explains how DocuSys, along with its sub components, allows anesthesiologists at the Southeast Alabama Medical Center to highlight ...
 
DocuSys in the News - WKRG DocuSys, Inc. Learn more about the Docusys System by watching this segment from WKRG 5 that highlights the system's use at the Naval Hospital Pensacola. DocuSys ...
 
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