What's a ‘Smart’ Checklist for Clinical Environments?

“Why would you start a business based on a checklist?” 

That is a question I get sometimes from people who are first learning about my company, ReadyList.

4 Ways to Motivate Clinical Staff

As a practice manager, it’s your responsibility to maximize efficiency, productivity and accuracy throughout your clinic, and motivating clinical staff is..

A Simple Framework To Build a High-Performing Hospital Service Department

You may recall the show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” The premise? Designers race to fully renovate a house in just one week. Onscreen, the results..

Streamline Daily OR Activities & Staff Management with Automated Reporting

As the saying goes, “you can’t manage what you don’t measure.” As an OR leader, you manage very large teams of staff—and it’s nearly impossible to closely..

Disruptive Healthcare....or Not?

Riddled with a convoluted medical infrastructure, unaligned financial incentives, and spiraling costs, the $3.3 trillion American healthcare system..

Maximize EVS Staff Performance With Automated Reporting

Tasked with preventing infections, EVS leaders must continually monitor personnel to ensure all cleaning protocols are upheld—which is no small task...

Why Hospital Service Teams Are Foundational to the Health Care Experience

The “banana cake” story is a legend at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital (Illinois), and is often told as an inspiring tale as a way to build..

A Simple Framework To Build a High-Performing Hospital Service Department

You may recall the show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” The premise? Designers race to fully renovate a house in just one week. Onscreen, the results..

Poisoned Halloween Candy, Tech-Challenged Hospital Workers, and Other Urban Legends

It was the 1980s, and parents everywhere were panic-stricken about Halloween. Children were being harmed – poisoned, cut by razor blades and other..

Infection Prevention and Environmental Services: A Natural Synergy

Symbiosis is a close relationship between two different biological organisms in nature. Mutualism is when both species benefit from the interaction and..