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eed to order supplies, schedule your staff, check
your patients' health histories, update your surgeons'
preference cards, earn your CE credits? There's an
app for that, as well as for many other facets of run-
ning a surgical facility you might not know about.
Take a quick look at your smart phone's home screen. How many sur-
gical apps are sharing space with your social media and shopping
apps? If you see Facebook and Amazon icons, but none for apps that
could make your facility more efficient, here's a look at 7 useful apps
you might want to download. They could eliminate time-consuming
manual processes so you can focus on providing great service to your
patients and physicians. And, who knows, they could supplant Netflix
as your new favorite app.
HealthLoop
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Engage patients before and after admission
through automated, daily check-ins with
HealthLoop, a free app that lets patients communi-
cate effectively with the physician's office.
"It connects the patient with the surgeon's office for questions, early
reporting of problems, pre-op entry of patient function scores and
post-op entry of function by patient," says Gabrielle White, RN, CASC,
executive director of the Hoag Orthopedic Institute Surgery Center in
Newport Beach, Calif. "It collates the data and sends reports to the
surgeons."
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