Five Easy Ways Your Women’s Health or Cancer Treatment Center Can Support Cervical Health Awareness Month in January 2017
Now that the winter holidays are over, it’s time to get back into the swing of things with marketing and promoting your healthcare facility. This is particularly true if you hospital or clinic offers women’s health services or has a cancer treatment centers, because January is national Cervical Hea…
Is Your Hospital Website Secure Enough for Google in 2017?
With 2017 only a few days away, there will soon be a very clear distinction between all hospital Websites: those that have TLS/SSL encryption security and those that don’t.
This distinction is not just a matter of whether or not your hospital Website uses TLS/SSL because of its implied security be…
Top 2016 Google My Business Listing Changes for Online Healthcare Marketers
If you are responsible for your hospital, clinic or other healthcare facility’s online marketing or patient acquisition, you are likely trying to tick off those lagging to-do’s from 2016 as you prepare for the upcoming new year. And just as likely, getting your Google My Business listings up to spe…
Why & How to Get Accreditation for Cardiovascular Excellence (ACE)
In order to position your hospital or practice as a specialized cardiovascular center, an outside accreditation can compel you to improve quality of care and patient standards. Earning Accreditation for Cardiovascular Excellence (ACE) has an important role in how hospitals with cardiovascular cente…
How to Choose the Best Medical Call Center
If you have been thinking about how to choose the best medical call center for your hospital, clinic or other healthcare facility, you likely have been carefully mulling over numerous considerations.
Guideway Care, a medical call center provider with more than a decade of experience, understands t…
Why & How to Get AAAHC Ambulatory Health Care Accreditation
Ambulatory health care accreditation is an often overlooked step in improving your ambulatory care outcomes and reputation. One of the leaders in this is the Accreditation Association of Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC), which has been providing approval for ambulatory care facilities since 1979.
Th…
BPCI Initiative Year 2 Lessons Learned
Top Results from CMS’ Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative Progress Report
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid recently published CMS Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative Models 2-4: Year 2 Evaluation & Monitoring Annual Report. If you have been following the recent de…
How are MACRA and CJR Connected?
Most people involved in healthcare—especially as it relates to Medicare reimbursements—are generally familiar with with MACRA (the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015) and CJR (Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement). However, what might they might not fully understand is how MAC…
Easing MACRA’s Quality Payment Program Transition
As the highly anticipated Quality Payment Program—a result of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA)—rollout begins, so does the search for solutions for easing the transition.
Although MACRA’s enactment and the corresponding transition to the Quality Payment Program offe…
Guideway Care Sequence of Activation Reflects on ObesityWeek 2016 Exhibition
It’s the end of November, which means that we’re once again returning from ObesityWeek, much as we have done for the past several years where we’ve attended as exhibitors! Although each one is special for us, this year’s ObesityWeek 2016 in New Orleans will be remembered for it being our first time…
Sequence Supports Important Hospital Rankings
In an effort to standardize healthcare evaluations for patients with limited medical experience, Healthgrades hospital rankings outline the strengths and weaknesses of facilities across the country. While rankings aren’t everything, how your facility is perceived can be extremely influential to the…
Meet New Core Standards for MBSAQIP Accreditation with Solutions from Guideway Care Sequence of Activation
The Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP) released version 2.0 of their Bariatric Accreditation Standards as of October 1, 2016. These standards set the core benchmarks critical for achieving success as a bariatric surgery center. Whether you are on…