Why are patient management and physician engagement tools so important in this day and age? Will they really improve my ASC’s operations, or my patient’s satisfaction levels? We have been doing fine without them for years, why now? These are all...
There are so many things to remember when having to significantly reduce your case volumes, temporarily close your ASC, and then ultimately return to operations and reopen your facility. In an effort to help Ambulatory Surgery Centers and their...
Finding insightful information from the right sources regarding COVID-19 can be a difficult task. SIS has taken the liberty to gather helpful resources from reputable organizations to help keep healthcare workers, their patients, and their loved...
Hospitals nationwide are increasingly migrating from paper records to electronic anesthesia record software, and with good reason. Make that good reasons.
SIS solutions take top spot in 15 of the survey's 18 performance areas of operational excellence, leading to #1 ASC EHR vendor ranking for fifth consecutive year.
Looking to give your ASC's financial performance a boost? These five tips can deliver a mix of short- and long-term improvements that can all contribute to a stronger bottom line.
Surgical Information Systems (SIS), an industry leader focused exclusively on delivering perioperative IT to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and hospitals, announces its sponsorship of the "ASC Podcast with John Goehle."
Q&A with ECRI Institute's Juuso Leinonen and Chad Waters
In its annual 2019 Top 10 Health Technology Hazards report, ECRI Institute identified "hackers can exploit remote access to systems, disrupting healthcare operations" as its top concern.
Q&A with ECRI Institute's Lorraine Possanza and Josi Wergin
If you are like administrators in most ASCs, you run a lean team and may not have the time and resources to give cybersecurity the attention it needs. Unfortunately, this is just what cybercriminals are hoping for so they can exploit...
Washington, D.C. – May 3, 2017 – Surgical Information Systems, an industry leader focused exclusively on delivering perioperative IT to ASCs and hospitals, will exhibit at the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) Annual Meeting in...
Survey results from over 9,000 physicians and clinical EHR users rate SIS first among Ambulatory EHR vendors for second consecutive year.
ATLANTA – May 2, 2017 – Surgical Information Systems, an industry leader focused exclusively on delivering...
You’ve probably heard a lot about “cloud computing” over the past few years — technology that lets you store and access data and software over the Internet, rather than on a hard drive, a server, or another physical storage device. The healthcare...
During Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 12-18) we highlighted three ways that communication is vital to ASC patient safety. But patient safety should be a priority every week. Today, we look at the increasingly important role of health IT...
The typical case at an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) requires an average of 25 communication touch points. Twenty-five. Think about all the individuals involved in a procedure and its scheduling: nurses, office staff, surgeons,...
Each year, clinicians, executives, vendors and other healthcare professionals — more than 40,000 of them from around the world — come together at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) Annual Conference & Exhibition...
One of the biggest challenges in healthcare IT today is a lack of interoperability: the ability for systems to truly communicate, regardless of maker or location. It’s a seamless transfer of data that we take for granted in other industries, like...
Every industry has a unique vocabulary, and healthcare is no exception. The problem: some of those sticky, often-used words take on a life of their own, are easily misunderstood, and can even end up misused to the point of meaninglessness.
These...
Our knee jerk reaction to fix problems using legacy technologies is slowing down our opportunity to solve the current healthcare interoperability challenges. While most of us read articles and blog posts about the ONC interoperability...
What comes to mind when you think about how healthcare has advanced in the last decade? Maybe you think about vaccines that have all but eradicated previously fatal ailments? Or new research surrounding preventative healthcare or social media...
For National Health IT Week, we're sharing content covering the many roles of technology in the outpatient healthcare space. Today's post contains excerpts from Senior Director of Product Management Saundra Monroe's "Data, Technology and the...
During National Health IT Week, we're kicking off a new blog series on using technology to solve common issues in outpatient facilities. Our first installment focuses on the challenge of communication between surgeons and ASCs.
As I travel each...
This week, SourceMed is proud to partner with HIMSS and other forward-thinking companies across the country in celebrating National Health IT Week.
National Health IT Week is an annual event offering all healthcare stakeholders an opportunity to...
Who needs face time? The simple answer is patients do. These days, that's a difficult feat. The business side of healthcare intrudes and saps time. Nurses say they are often challenged with balancing increasing amounts of required documentation...
Healthcare is the business of healing. However, outpatient facilities must still operate as an actual business and remain profitable in order to keep the doors open. But the times are changing, and the way that the clinical, financial, and...
When it comes to software affordability, a cloud based solution can be the best way to cut costs and lower total cost of ownership. Acquiring and maintaining a complex IT environment requires valuable time and financial resources. With changing...
ASC Revenue Cycle 2019 Review and 2020 ForecastWatch RCS experts as they highlight the most significant ASC revenue cycle developments of 2019 and discuss what developments ASCs can anticipate in 2020.
