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T E C H N O L O G Y
Upgraded payroll software saves Nancy Logan, RN, CNOR, the OR
coordinator at Atlantic Health in Morristown, N.J., about an hour
every time she does payroll every 2 weeks.
"Now I can just pull up a calendar, click on the right month, mark
off the whole week and everything is calculated immediately," she
says. "Or sometimes people forget to swipe in their badges when they
get to work or they forget to swipe out when they leave. Now, when I
log on, there's a red bar on the screen that warns me if someone has
forgotten to swipe in or out."
4. Order Facilitating
If your facility is struggling to keep up with the large number of faxes
that arrive daily — or worse, occasionally misplacing them — listen to
Tammy Killen, RN,
MSN, the ambulatory
care services director
at SkyRidge Medical
Center in Cleveland,
Tenn.
"Orders would come
in from doctors'
offices and they might
go to any of 4 or 5 different departments —
any department that
happened to have a
fax machine," she
says. "They were constantly getting lost, or
not getting to the right
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