September 29th, 2011
Healthcare organizations know that improving coordination of care is vital to our future success. Accomplishing this objective requires us to align patient needs with the skills, abilities, and availability of nursing staff and treating physicians—in real time. Today, hospitals track patient needs through a variety of systems, including ADT, EHR, and even RTLS. Nursing resources are typically automated via the staffing system. Physician schedules and availability, however, can be much more difficult to ascertain. At moments when we can have a significant, positive impact on the quality and cost of care, there simply is no single, trusted source for this critical element of care coordination.
It’s 2:30 AM. A heart attack victim is being rushed to the ER. Who’s the cardiologist on call? At 10:00 that same morning, a knee replacement patient waits to be discharged. Where’s the physician who can process her release? Later in the day, an oncology patient’s son arrives, after a long drive, to visit his mother. He wants to know when the physician will be making rounds. He’s in no mood to wait for an answer.
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August 1st, 2011
Now that many hospitals are adding more physicians to their internal staff, we have an unprecedented opportunity to positively impact the patient experience. Healthcare organizations now have the opportunity to know where the right doctor is for a patient- all the time- in real time. To capture this opportunity, though, you have to be able to integrate the physicians’ schedules with your other decision support systems. Clairvia Physician Scheduler gives you this ability by starting with the highly complex on-call schedules specifically built to accommodate all physician specialties.
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February 1st, 2011
The delivery of quality healthcare requires that you maintain quality relationships and provide an integrated way to communicate with your physicians and caregivers.
An essential first step in ensuring effective communication with physicians begins with a clear understanding of—and control over—physicians’ often very complex schedules.
Clairvia’s Physician Scheduler software is the solution that will provide you with the flexibility to provide a variety of scheduling solutions to all types of physician specialties and staff.
You will eliminate inefficiencies and costs of disparate, fragmented systems and provide a tool that will encourage enhanced communication and the coordination of care between physicians, caregivers, and your patients.
December 6th, 2010
In overseeing the scheduling of 84 anesthesiologists and more than 100 support staff performing greater than 90,000 procedures per year at 24 different healthcare settings, Cheryl McClure of Capitol Anesthesiology Associates (CAA) in Austin, Texas knows that hearing no news is good news.
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December 1st, 2010
When you ask Jan Reynolds, Chief Operating Officer at the Heart Center in Huntsville, Alabama, how her cardiology practice would handle physician scheduling without Physician Scheduler® software, the reply is swift and direct.
“It’d be impossible,” she states, simply.
Each day, Reynolds relies on Physician Scheduler to ensure accurate scheduling and appointment coverage for its 30 cardiologists and 12 nurse practitioners—all of whom rotate among The Heart Center’s four main practice locations throughout the Tennessee Valley.
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August 20th, 2010
At its recent user conference in Orlando, Clairvia introduced a new Physician Scheduler® customer award program to recognize outstanding physician group and hospital-based specialty department achievements in two areas: innovation and leadership.
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August 19th, 2010
Texting, as well as email-and Internet-enabled smartphones, have changed the way we communicate. Now, they can change the way you manage your scheduling needs, helping you cut waste and provide your team with up-to-date information anytime, anywhere.
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August 18th, 2010
Physician Scheduler has been providing scheduling solutions to physician practices and healthcare organizations for more than 15 years. When we speak with customers as well as prospective customers one of the more popular topics of discussion is best practices–specifically what can they learn from our experiences. With the introduction of our Blog we hope to provide a forum to share experiences and exchange ideas not only about Physician Scheduler but also about physician and staff scheduling. Our inaugural post lists out our top 10 best practices for achieving and maintaining a high performing schedule. We encourage you to comment on one or more of these practices as it relates to your experience or perhaps one of these practices has inspired you which we hope you share with us. We are grateful for the opportunity to share this platform with you and look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas.
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