Can you accurately measure the ROI of JCI Accreditation in medical tourism advertising and promotion? While JCI use to be exclusive, you would now place yourself among hundreds of competitors who have found that to attempt to use JCI’s logo to represent a medical tourism readiness and expect the accreditation to draw market share,...
Agile Documentation Applied to Healthcare: An Introduction
What is Agile? Agile is an approach to product development that is based on iterative and incremental development. In 2001, software developers met in Utah and drew up with the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. The aim of the manifesto was to find better ways to develop software as a product. Is the business of healthcare...
2010 Medicare Demographics for ASCs & HOPDs from MedPAC
Recent data collected from 2010 utilization indicated the following trends about where dual eligible beneficiaries had surgery. We are not sure if the data suggests that the patients “chose” the setting for their surgery or if the setting was suggested, recommended or otherwise influenced by someone other than the patient....