Improving Software Quality with User Workflows
“Quality is not act. It is a habit.” ~Aristotle Software Quality Management has been the main target for engineers since the beginning of our time; you can come up with something new, but if the quality is not good enough, it will not last. In regards to quality, we can still use the bridges from […]
Medical Data Analytics and Its Impact on Patient Outcomes
Everywhere you look these days you can find articles on how data analytics is leveraged by businesses to optimize their performance, better understand their customers, better understand their employees and make overall better business decisions. Individuals for personal day-to-day decisions such as which phone to buy, which restaurant to frequent, or which car gives the […]
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. […]