Written by Judith Buckland
Quality and Ease
Remember, when we say Accreditation Hacks – the word ‘hack’ is a good thing! We provide timesaving hacks while improving quality. With our tips, suggestions and resources you have the ultimate combination of quality and ease. Our goal is to allow you to focus on excellence...
Written by Judith Buckland
Accreditation doesn’t have to make you tear your hair out!
The words we hear most often (that we can repeat here!) when we discuss Accreditation is “tedious”, “time-consuming” and “frustrating”. Clients ask me if I’m a glutton for punishment to spend all day, every day processing...
Written by Judith Buckland
Accreditation Hack - Part One
We want to make sure you start the year off right in regards to meeting the new Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) Quality Improvement requirements and provide you with time saving tricks and techniques to ensure compliance. Whether your accreditation is in...
Written by Judith Buckland, MBA, RDCS, FASE
TEE PROBE LEAK TEST BECOMES MANDATORY DECEMBER 31, 2015...ARE YOU READY?
Back in July 2013, one of the revisions to the IAC Standards and Guidelines included “the structural and electrical integrity of the transducer must be checked between each use, using an ultrasound transducer leakage...
Written by Judith Buckland
Are you prepared for the ICD-10
deadline on October 1, 2015?
Doctors’ offices, hospitals and everyone covered under HIPPA will be making the much anticipated switch to the ICD-10 on October 1, 2015. The number of diagnostic codes will increase from 14,000 to 70,000. What does this mean for a...