For seriously ill and injured patients, air ambulance services can save their lives, but they can also be very expensive. Because of this, many insurance providers and assistance companies have stringent guidelines for the air ambulance services they will pay for. The insurance or assistance company will make arrangements and cover the costs, up to …
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Key performance indicators (KPIs) are critical for measuring just how effectively your organization is working toward achieving its goals, including its readiness for accreditation. However, while they are crucial for any business’s success, they are only as good as the tracking tools used to measure those KPIs. When measuring clinical KPIs, your charting software likely …
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All programs have problems. The successful ones identify them, implement changes and evaluate the effectiveness of the changes. The unsuccessful ones continue to have, well, problems. When an outside, or third party, is evaluating your program against a set of measured standards, your natural instinct may be to achieve 100%. Why? We all want to …
Your information’s security and privacy are important to us. I want to discuss this for one very important reason: there are some untrustworthy individuals in the medical transport industry, especially aeromedical. Sharing your propriety company processes, documents and procedures is necessary for internal stakeholders, and on occasion, external collaborators. There is a level of trust …
(Policies & Procedures + Quality Management) ÷ Education & Training = √ Accreditation They aren’t just binders and long documents that everybody loathes. Establishing Policies & Procedures (P&P) that are in-line with an agency-defined Quality Management (QM) and Education & Training (E&T) Programs is quite simple — they work in concert with one another. While there …
Learn the importance of developing and scaling your training program to your service area and scope of practice. As you read in the previous post, your Quality Management (QM) program is very closely tied to your Education and Training (E&T) program. To your frontline clinical staff, it is either a welcomed benefit as a team member …
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…Nobody Likes Compliance! Or the compliance person within your organization. They are always checking behind others, implementing new processes and often times, telling you something else or different needs to be done. Compliance serves multiple purposes. At one level, it is the system of checks and balances that ensures you are meeting your program-defined quality …
Learn the importance of a clinical quality management and how to implement one.