Announcements

AMS has been selected as a Massachusetts certified Implementation and Optimization Organization (IOO) to help primary care physicians in MA with the implementation of EHRs. To learn more, go to our official IOO page or click HERE.

Alan Goldberg has recently been honored as one of HIMSS 50 in 50 Healthcare Management Systems Professionals for his contributions to the field. Click HERE to read more.

For her fourth consecutive year, Shari Robbins, AMS Vice President, will be guest lecturing at Northeastern University for the Master of Science in Health Informatics program. She will be presenting on the topic of workflow analysis, which will include definition, methodology and real world examples of the benefit to utilizing this vital component of any change or implementation. See Shari's profile HERE.

Publications

Applied Management Systems, Inc. (AMS) often publishes articles and papers that reflect trends and key issues within health care.

Click HERE to read “What Every CEO Should Know About Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor Program” - Co-written by Alan J. Goldberg, FACHE, AMS Partner, and Linda M. Young, JD, RHIA, AMS Senior Consultant and Assistant General Counsel, published in the May-June 2011 issue of Journal of Healthcare Management.

Click HERE to read "Managing in a Downturn - How Do You Manager in a Global Financial Recession?" - Co-written by Alan J. Goldberg, FACHE, AMS Partner and William D. Petasnick, FACHE, President and CEO, Froedert Hospital and Froedert & Community Health System, Milwaukee Wisconsin. This article was originally published in the May - June 2010 issue of the Journal of Healthcare Management. It will be available on the AMS website for a limited time.

Click HERE to read "Portion Control Opportunities: Real Time Gains for Hospital Patient Throughput" - Co-written by Alan J. Goldberg, FACHE, AMS Partner and Shari B. Robbins, AMS Vice President. Published in the September-October 2011 issue of Journal of Healthcare Management.

Thursday, February 9, 2012, The Maryland Association of Health Care Executives will be hosting their next event, Annual Legislative Update 2012. For more information, go to their website (http://mahce.ache.org).

On Friday, December 2, 2011, Jan Sayer, manager, participated on a Healthcare Information Technology leadership panel in South Portland, Maine as part of a New England Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) meeting “Balancing Priorities: HIT planning in an Era of Numerous Demands”. Sixty people were in attendance. Jan brought her health information management, coding, and ICD-10 trainer perspective to the panel.

Paul Camara, Senior Vice President, and Rick Panning, Vice President of Laboratory Services, Allina Hospitals and Clinics, Minneapolis, MN presented an advanced session titled “Productivity: How to Assess Performance and Manage Benchmarks” on July 27, 2011 at the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science meeting in Atlanta. This meeting is held in conjunction with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry. The talk was about how Allina implemented AMS benchmarks to manage staffing needs in the laboratories based on a 2009 AMS project. This session demonstrated how consistent measurement of productivity enables a culture of accountability. Paul discussed the background on benchmarking, and how AMS goes about conducting an operational assessment. Managing staffing levels and productivity is essential for the viability of any healthcare provider.