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5 Ways to Address the Growing Healthcare Efficiency Crisis
Harvard’s Dr. Michael Porter defines value in health care with the equation { value = outcomes/cost }. That seems pretty straightforward, yet efficiency in healthcare remains elusive. Healthcare organizations face an overwhelming challenge: providing safe…
Patients Waking Up During Surgery? Have Your Anesthesia Carts Ready
Accidental Awareness It’s the stuff of nightmares and something many of us have considered at one point in our lives: “What if I were to wake up during surgery?” While uncommon, this phenomenon does happen.…
The Most Important Tools for Lean Management in Healthcare
A great benefit of practicing Lean in the healthcare industry is using tools that fuel efficiency and higher performance. The key, though, is to remember that the tools available for Lean management in healthcare should…
5 Common Mistakes When Implementing a Lean Hospital Management System
The process of implementing a Lean hospital management system is similar to gardening. Anyone can perform gardening-like tasks, but to get results from your activity, you need to take the time to build a support…
How to Integrate New Medical Cabinets With Your Existing Workflow
In a Lean hospital, one of the primary goals is to minimize waste. Waste could be anything from wasted time performing tasks in an efficient workflow to wasted medical supplies because they expired. Another primary…
The Financial Benefits of Patient-Centered Facility Design
Now is the time to focus on patient-centered facility design. According to the latest U.S. Health Care Construction Spending Report, spending in the most recent period was $41.55 billion, up 7.5 percent year-over-year. The trend…
How to Optimize the Relationship Between Nursing and Pharmacy
Lean operations managers in an acute care facility are continually striving for efficiency while fighting against the strong headwind of a broken system. The departments that are often caught up in this storm are Nursing…
Need to Improve Point-of-Use Medication Storage? Look at Our Solutions!
As Talon has studied the workflow challenges for acute care facilities, we have routinely noticed that hospitals experience inefficiencies safely and securely managing their medications and supplies. The cause of these inefficiencies is oftentimes related…
The Key to Medication Management is Talon MedKey Software
Does your current medication management solution provide user access and inventory control, or does it only store medication and require regular auditing? If you want to optimize your workflow, decrease your drug diversion and drug…