Data Retention Basics: Understanding your Requirements and Best Practices for Policy Development
With all the recent high profile data breaches and the risks associated with retaining significant amounts of Protected Health Information (PHI), it can be tempting for organizations to want to gravitate towards dramatically reducing the amount of data retained. However, before doing a significant purge of data, there are several regulatory and risk management considerations […]
Tuesdays with Theresa: SmarTrack Next
One of the trending focuses in hospital surgery departments is communication with patients and families. With COVID keeping family members out of the hospitals, communication is key to ensuring successful outcomes for surgery patients. Picis is helping by providing that communication through SmarTrack Next. SmarTrack Next is a web-based tracking system that allows many folks […]
Planning for Your Organization’s Return to Office
Like so many organizations, the pandemic completely upended the way we work here at Picis. Prior to March 2020, telecommuting was mainly done on an exceptional basis, with prior approval. Now, over a year and a half into our remote work “experiment” that was borne out of necessity, we’re working to build a sustainable return […]
Sepsis via Rule Based Notifications
Being a clinician is so stressful these days. There are many things to consider in patient care and Picis is helping to alleviate the stress by helping clinicians detect possible Sepsis in a patient with a rules-based notification system. The hospital can configure the rules to trigger the clinician when a Sepsis diagnosis is possible. […]
Customer Demand
Customers are the beacon that drive a business to be successful. If a business is incapable of identifying problems for their customers and efficiently solving their real-world problems, the business will inevitably cease to exist. So, a curious mindset and a drive to constantly learn from customers is a very important arsenal in a business’s […]
Best Practice Documentation with PACU Manager
Just like all Picis products, the documentation screens should be reviewed yearly to ensure they are efficient and easy for the end-users to document. PACU is no exception. We tend to build our templates during the initial software implementation, the users get accustomed to them and then we don’t do a good job of reviewing […]