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Improve your ER physician schedule so you dont lose patients to urgent care clinics
Even though a person may have a primary care physician, when a medical emergency strikes, many Americans head to the emergency room of their local hospital to seek treatment. However, because the cost of treatment at urgent care clinics is ...
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Seven reasons why its time to ditch excel for your medical staff scheduling
Microsoft Excel has been the go-to tool for emergency medicine scheduling managers for years. For the longest time, this program has been the easiest solution for these professionals; however, with advances in technology and the advent of shift ...
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New features -- June 2016
A metric indicating the likely easiness with which shifts can be assigned is available from the 'hot spots' tool in the schedule revision screen. The metric is shown for each shift with the following codes: red 'H': hardest to assign orange ...
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Can hospital staff scheduling software fix patients number one complaint
According to a study published in the Journal of Medical Practice Management, the biggest complaint of hospital patients is the customer service – or lack of – that they receive. A majority, 96 percent, of patients complain about the customer ...
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Overcoming the challenges of managing shift schedules
As the scheduling manager of an emergency department, a doctor’s office, or any other medical facility, you have an important, yet demanding job. Your role is to make sure that the facility is properly staffed at all times to ensure patients are ...
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How to choose the best emergency room physician scheduling software
Emergency rooms are busy places. With a constant influx of patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, trying to ensure that the needs of the patients, as well as the physicians who treat them, are met, can be demanding for a scheduling manager. A ...
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New features -- May 2016
The display and print format for a schedule version can be reset to the default applied to new schedules. The reset is performed from the version edit screen. The full desktop version can be accessed from the mobile app. Return to mobile ...
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Surgeon general talks about physician scheduling and burnout
The Surgeon General is concerned about physician burnout and warns that it has serious repercussions, according to an interview reported on MedPage Today. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA said that the field of medicine is a profession ...
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Five benefits of nurse scheduling software
The healthcare industry never sleeps, which means that healthcare professionals work around the clock in order to ensure patients receive the treatment that they need. Nurses are among some of the most important professionals in the healthcare ...
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What on-call scheduling software can do for you
Creating a schedule for on-call staff can be a challenge for both clinic or practice's scheduling manager and the staff member who has to work. The following factors present definite challenges: Vacation requests Sick days Creating/working a ...
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