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T E C H N O L O G Y
Jim Burger
Associate Editor
GAME-CHANGER How much time
and hassle might your facility save?
These folks only wish they'd done it sooner.
Have You Automated
These 5 Areas Yet?
C
hange may be challenging, but automation can save your
facility time, money and hassles. Here are 5 areas where
readers who've made technology leaps would never consider
going back:
1. Infection Control Reporting
How much time can you save by moving information that used to be
stored in boxes and binders onto your computers? Yenara Reda, RN,
BSN, the OR team leader in charge of infection prevention at the
Rockland and Bergen Surgery Center in Montvale, N.J., shakes her head
when she thinks back to what it was like preparing quarterly infectioncontrol reports before she automated the process.
"It could take me a full day to do a report covering 3 months' worth of
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