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Today’s anesthesia practices are all struggling with three main management challenges. First, they must generate consistent and sufficient cashflow to manage the practice budget. Second, the primary budgetary challenge is to recruit and retain a sufficient staff of qualified providers to perform the services required by the facility. Third, it is not enough to manage the AR and find and retain qualified providers; one must establish and maintain a symbiotic relationship with the facilities it services. While many practices can achieve some of these requirements, many struggle attaining all three. The only practices that will survive long term are those that maintain an effective strategy to balance the three.
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America is facing a sudden shortage of vital fluids used in hospitals across the country. According to an October 17 report in The Hill, hospitals were left scrambling after hurricane Helene caused flooding to a Baxter plant in North Carolina, where approximately 60 percent of the nation’s IV fluid supply is manufactured. As a result, more than 86 percent of hospitals are experiencing shortages of IV fluids, according to a survey of more than 250 health facilities conducted by supply chain company Premier Inc. Shortages were evenly spread nationwide, across all provider types. According to the survey, 54 percent of facilities reported they had 10 or fewer days of IV fluids in inventory.
See PostNever Enough: Renewed Call for Action in the Wake of Cyberthreats
You can always do better. When it comes to safeguarding hospital systems and patient information, there is always one more threat to assess, one more person to train, one more “i” to dot and “t” to cross. In other words, the world in which we now find ourselves requires ongoing and preemptive action to thwart the inevitable and incessant assaults from cybercriminals around the world. Once the healthcare sector settled on electronic data transmission standards, via HIPAA, and hospitals began adopting electronic medical records (EMR), an entire underground industry arose to take advantage where it could.
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