Healthcare organizations face significant challenges creating, upkeeping and managing policies and procedures. The ability to access current policies in an easy, streamlined manner is vital to the healthcare process. This access helps facilities meet federal and state laws and regulations, Joint Commission and DNV standards, CMS regulations, and other accreditation requirements.
Over the past two years due to the COVID-19 crisis, organizational policies, practice guidelines, and protocols have required continuous changes. Every day, leaders are trying to keep pace with regulatory mandates and ensure that their organization’s policies and guidelines are up to date. This is exactly why a document control management program is imperative.
Document control functions are a collective effort to reduce operational risk and promote positive patient outcomes. To remain compliant, organizational policies, guidelines and protocols must be reviewed and approved through an internal document control management program and often through an expedited review process when clinical practice workflows need to change right away. Document control requires an efficient, sustainable operational strategy coordinated by organizational leaders who ensure that policies and procedures are maintained and current and that the turnaround time of a document’s approval is consistent with operational needs and regulatory mandates.
Over the past two years due to the COVID-19 crisis, organizational policies, practice guidelines, and protocols have required continuous changes.
Over the past two years due to the COVID-19 crisis, organizational policies, practice guidelines, and protocols have required continuous changes.
With Policy Manager MCN Healthcare provides custom regulatory policy content, document management software, and compliance expertise to healthcare organizations. MCN has partnered with EBSCO Information Services to seamlessly integrate clinical skills and procedures from Dynamic Health into Policy Manager. Dynamic Health is EBSCO's evidence-based resource designed to help nurses and allied health professionals master critical skills.
MCN Healthcare’s policy management compliance suite (Policy Manager) with regulatory change notifications and policy content in combination with Dynamic Health provide accessibility to evidence-based procedures and skills as well as policies, ensuring healthcare organizations’ ability to implement the most current regulatory compliance and evidence-based nursing practice for optimal patient care.
The integration of EBSCO’s Dynamic Health with MCN Healthcare’s policy management solution closes the circle of regulatory compliance, policy process and evidence-based nursing practice, providing a powerhouse of information available at the bedside to improve patient care and decrease risk.
