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Is Your Turnover Team Fast Enough? - August 2014 - Subscribe to Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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9 1 A U G U S T 2 0 1 4 | O U T P AT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E Bend, Ind., remembers the facility's failed attempt at trying to hammer the square peg of a hospital-spe- cific EMR into the round hole of her sur- gery center's needs. She was also a key player when the cen- ter's staff and leader- ship worked with an EMR vendor to transition to a customized system that fits their specific documentation requirements, including templates for regularly run reports, user-friendly drop-down menus, physician-spe- cific discharge directions, constantly updated medication lists and safety checklists. "Keeping the system current with frontline needs is an evolving process that's made easier by the staff-driven adaptability of the inter- face," says Ms. Sarasin. "The program is totally set up for our ASC. The whole process has been great for all of us." Drilling down Electronic records collect large amounts of hard data so you can iden- tify areas of needed improvement over time instead of taking action based on assumptions and anecdotal evidence. For example, you can drill down to the block utilization rates of surgical services or individ- ual surgeons. EMRs let you recognize surgeons who are dragging down the averages or outperforming their peers. "That information was very hard to get before," says Dr. Foglia. "Now we can pull the data with 3 or 4 mouse clicks." E M R S DATA ENTRY Scrub technician Alicia Cotner, CST, inputs case info that's used to make real change at PCET Surgery Center. Alana Booth, RN, CASC

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