Capture billing data quickly, but accurately. This is a lesson that organizations learn when converting from paper to digital management of ECG and other diagnostics. Realizing that automation of the processing cycle provides an opportunity to efficiently gather billing data, they usually expect a reduction in unrealized revenue in DNFB (discharged-not-final-billed) and a corresponding increase in cash flow.… Read more >

“Never stop automating your ECG solution.” It’s a lesson of which we were recently reminded when we heard about a problem at one of our client’s clinics.… Read more >

ECG management does a great job of standardizing work flow and automating data entry. However, there will always be unusual situations that require some corrective action relating to your data. The busier your ECG operations, the more often these situations will occur, and when they do occur they require timely intervention.… Read more >

A variety of departments provide input on the selection of an ECG management solution in most organizations. Each has a different set of needs and a different viewpoint on what is the “right” ECG management system. In order to satisfy a client, an ECG data solution provider must satisfy each department.… Read more >

During the early days of electronic ECG management, much of the focus was on providing easy, secure, remote access for the physicians that were interpreting ECG tracings. In providing this access to Interpreting Physicians, cardiac testing organizations avoided the cost and inefficiencies associated with printing and delivering the ECG tracings to those Physicians, and in so doing, also elevated the standard of care given to their patients.… Read more >

How do we get more value from our ECG solution? This is a question that our clients start asking about a year after they have implemented an electronic ECG management solution. During the 10+ years that we have been creating these solutions for organizations, we have found that there is an evolution in the manner that they leverage the value of their solutions.… Read more >

“Our customers are demanding it.” This is the “pocketbook” reason that two healthcare organizations recently gave us for wanting to purchase an electronic management solution for their ECG tests. Both of these organizations are using paper-based management of their ECG tests and both had, for the past few years, resisted conversion to electronic data management. But suddenly, both organizations have shown greater interest, and a sense of urgency, about making the change. Why? Both organizations gave the same explanation: “Our customers are demanding it.”… Read more >

When we speak to organizations about the benefits that can be delivered by our ECG data management solutions, they initially focus on the 2 Ps: Productivity and Profitability. However, as discussion progress, they find that there are other, less obvious benefits that are available from more sophisticated ECG management systems – Care, Compliance & Control over Operations.… Read more >

This is the most common question that we face when we speak to organizations about ECG data management systems. It is understandable to get this question from organizations that still use paper-based management systems. However, organizations that have made the conversion to electronic management also ask this question because they want to be sure that they are receiving all of the benefits that are available from electronic management.… Read more >

For many of our clients who automatically print their ECG reports, we have also set up an automatic printing of the courier route and stop number on each report and have set up an automatic sorting of the reports according to the route and stop number.… Read more >