At the Society of Hospital Medicine 2007 Annual Meeting, 300 attendees attended a workshop where the Society of Hospital Medicine's "Handoff Task Force" presented its draft recommendations for handoffs, with goal of that the final recommendations would be applicable in both community and academic settings. Participants had the opportunity to provide additional ideas for the [...]
At the Society of Hospital Medicine 2007 Annual Meeting, 300 attendees attended a workshop where the Society of Hospital Medicine's "Handoff Task Force" presented its draft recommendations for handoffs, with goal of that the final recommendations would be applicable in both community and academic settings. Participants had the opportunity to provide additional ideas for the [...]
Hospitalist group directors and administrators may assume that the hospital's enterprise EHR, which likely cost at least tens of millions of dollars to implement, will fulfill the IT needs of hospitalists. This is a common misconception, which is understood when considering actual hospitalist workflow. When a hospitalist's workflow is actually mapped out, an EHRs shortcomings [...]
The December 2014 Publication "Improving Transitions of Care: Hand-off Communications," published by the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare, aims to address consistent and widespread failures in Hand-Off Communications. A lack of standardization for hand-off processes, ineffective communication methods, inadequate time committed to the hand-off, among many other failures were highlighted as the root cause for [...]
Click here to see the OnServiceMD Advertisement in the Society of Hospital Medicine Pulse: News from the Society of Hospital Medicine.
OnServiceMD is based on something magical: your workflow. Triage, communicate, track, assign, distribute, hand-off, discharge and transition. Tens of thousands of admissions strong, OnServiceMD will revolutionize your entire group's workflow, and be the complement to your hospital EMR you have been waiting for. Not a full-scale EMR, OnServiceMD fills in all the gaps that your [...]
Version 2.1 of OnServiceMD, to be released in June 2013, will include several exciting enhancements. Perhaps most exciting is the new "Group Website." This integrated feature allows for hospitalist group leaders (or other specialty leaders) get the word out in a single, secure location. Users can now access any group-specific content, such as group policies [...]
OnService Solutions is dedicated to meeting the needs of its customers, and knows that SocialCast by VMware will give customers an easy, new way to submit new ideas for OnServiceMD and to review any issues. To communicate and share, just click on the "Groups" link on the left side of the screen; then select your [...]
The next major release of OnServiceMD, Version 2.0, is in development, and will be fully implemented at all client sites by fall 2012. This next version on OnServiceMD represents over 2 years of development, and includes over 100 new features which further the OnServiceMD mission to streamline workflow for practicing physicians. New features and major [...]
In June, 2012, the 18,000th patient was admitted using OnServiceMD. What does 18,000 patients represent? 18,000 admissions, 18,000 attending assignments, 18,000 hand-offs, and 18,000 communications to PCPs. This new milestone is a testament to OnServiceMD's sound admitting rules, rock-solid patient assignment logic, and extensive workflow enhancements.
