More than you think! If you hear a song by Van Halen, and remember the band, (and after a short and un-scientific survey of my team at the corporate office, that is a rapidly declining number!) you probably think of frontman David Lee Roth. In the 1980’s, he gained a reputation as temperamental and self-indulgent … Continued
About 25 years ago I was hired to assist a wound center in Sherman Oaks as it moved away from its management company, Curative. It was one of the first instances of a hospital insourcing their wound center and canceling their management contract. To say that the process was contentious would be a gross understatement. … Continued
John Gambol, MD, gives his thoughts on WCA’s Virtual Scribe, how it saves time on EMR documentation, and frees up time for direct patient care.
Our new Instant Proforma only requires a hospital name or location to generate a five-year wound care program proforma. Here’s how it works.
Thinking about ways that AI could have an impact in wound care.
Amazon is the company to watch. They haven’t done much yet publicly, but there is some groundwork in place, and — importantly — Amazon has a history and proclivity to take on entire industries.
Technology doesn’t have to be the proverbial square peg in the round hole of the wound clinic or the hospital in general. If you can – as Bruce Lee suggested – “be like water,” there are opportunities for improvements and advances by working with the system instead of fighting against it.
A large part of the work my team does at WCA involves dashboarding, reporting, and benchmarking. We’ve gained a great deal of experience and insight on how to interpret and present the large amount of data we receive each day to better inform our clinical and business decisions…
This post is one of a series discussing patient satisfaction and a follow-up on the introduction of the new program we started piloting in the spring of 2017. It may be a case of fortunate timing, but the subject of reviews has been in the news (well, my news) quite a bit lately: Netflix just … Continued
Patient Satisfaction. Of all the measures in the industry that can be manipulated to make a hospital or healthcare provider look good (or bad)—and there are plenty—patient satisfaction has to rank high on the list for the weight and amount of attention it receives compared to the evidence it has as a valuable measure on … Continued