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JANUARY
2023
Volume 39
Number 1
Education and information for OR decision makers
REGULATIONS
IN THIS ISSUE
INDUSTRY BEATS
New AMDR report strengthens
case for single-use medical device
reprocessing ................................7
Key lessons on supply
management at OR Manager
Conference ..................................9
Scheduling OR travel staff at a
large academic institution ...........11
Reader's choice: OR a.m. top
read stories ...............................13
SPECIALTY STORIES
ASC challenge: Recruiting and
retaining surgical technologists ...24
Tackling internal objections to
single-use device reprocessing ....29
Legal ABCs of drafting contracts
with anesthesia..........................31
Accreditation updates from The Joint
Commission, CMS
A
n important reason for accreditation
from The Joint Commission
is that it allows hospitals to bill
Medicare and Medicaid, under what is
called " deemed status, " says John Rosing,
MHA, FACHE, executive vice president
and principal at Patton Healthcare
Consulting, an affiliate of HBS of Langhorne,
Pennsylvania. Rosing spoke at
the OR Manager Conference in 2022.
Accreditation is voluntary, but if an
organization is not accredited, it is instead
subjected to surveys testing compliance
with the Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services (CMS) CondiTECHNOLOGY
State
of natural language processing in
surgery: Part 2
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atural language processing
(NLP) has the potential to make
clinicians' work easier, help
meet organizational goals, and promote
quality patient care.
" This technology is something that
can help us as healthcare stakeholders-whether
nurses, administrators, or
surgeons-to access a lot of the health
information and data that are being generated
every day, " says John Fischer,
MD, director of the clinical research
program, division of plastic surgery, and
associate professor of surgery at the
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia. " I see it as a very
useful tool in helping us to make sense
BY CYNTHIA SAVER
of and label a vast array of health information
so we can do a better job of taking
care of our patients. " Dr Fischer is
also a co-author of a systematic review
and meta-analysis on the use of NLP in
surgery.
Part 1 of this two-part series explored
some of the uses of NLP in surgery.
Part 2 discusses the role of NLP
in outcomes and general clinical research,
as well as challenges of the
technology and factors OR leaders
should consider when purchasing products
that use NLP (sidebar, Surgeryrelated
uses of NLP).
Continued on page 19
BY JUDITH MATHIAS
tions of Participation
(CoP), performed by
their state agency acting
on behalf of CMS.
Many CoP still read as
they did in 1965, when
the Medicare program
was first introduced,
and many others have
been added or changed since. Updates
for the CoP are announced by CMS via
Quality, Safety, and Oversight memos
and the periodically updated State Operating
Manual.
John Rosing,
MHA, FACHE
Continued on page 8
Continued on page 15
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