Labor Shortages Drive Need for Care Delivery Change
Nursing shortages result in poor quality of care including – an increase in adverse events – as well as nursing staff burnout. New care-delivery models are needed to retain and attract nurses and provide improved work environments with flexible scheduling, coordinated care and expansion of virtual care. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, delivery of health care […]
Harris Affinity Introduces Labor Costing Enhancement to Decision Support Costing Solution
Time Factor capability added to ADS Activity-Based Costing Method Wakefield, MA, February 10, 2022 – Harris Affinity (Affinity) is proud to announce the latest innovation in Activity-Based Costing (ABC). A new “resource intensity” element has been added to patient utilization and charge item records. This greatly improves the accuracy and specificity of staff and labor […]
Maximizing the Customer Experience: How to Improve Interaction & Engagement
Maximizing a customer experience can lead to increased sales, better product exposure and increased profits for any company. With the advent of internet search engines today, there are many success stories that can be found via minimal effort. What is sometimes harder to find is how can you take these success stories to transform your […]
Harris Affinity Announces Partnership with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for Enterprise Decision Support Conversion
Services provided will ensure continued integration of St. Jude data for healthcare enterprise costing purposes Wakefield, MA, January 5, 2022 – Harris Affinity (Affinity) announces update to recent integration of enterprise decision support software for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (St. Jude). A pediatric treatment and research facility focused on children’s catastrophic diseases, St. Jude […]
Harris Affinity Announces Availability of Medicare OPPS Regulatory Updates in ADS 10.4.1
Updates support commitment to ensuring proper contracting calculations for customers Wakefield, MA, December 17, 2021 – Harris Affinity (Affinity), announces the addition of Medicare OPPS (outpatient prospective payment system) regulatory updates effective 01/01/2022 to ADS 10.4.1 With this update, the pricing methods for Medicare/Commercial Outpatient PPS, HCPCS Code Fee Schedule (Apply Lab Packaging option), and […]
Rolling Forecasts vs Traditional Budgets: No Longer a Luxury Item
There are plenty of articles and information available about what a rolling forecast is and how to implement one. Simply Google “rolling forecast” and you will be overwhelmed by the amount of content available on this subject. Some of these articles get into the details of the general benefits of using rolling forecasting as part […]
Impact of Telehealth: Are Virtual Healthcare Services Preferred?
The pandemic has resulted in e-commerce growth that was unpredicted. In March 2020, global retail website traffic hit 14.3 billion visits signifying an unprecedented growth of e-commerce during the lockdown of 2020. Recent studies show that consumers prefer e-commerce and will continue using online services even when in-person services are available. The studies show that […]
Harris Affinity Announces Latest Version Release of ADS 10.4.1
Activity-Based Costing enhancements help healthcare CFOs drive improvements in service line operating margins. Wakefield, MA, November 23, 2021 – Harris Affinity (Affinity), announces the release of ADS 10.4.1. The release focuses on activity-based costing enhancements to add streamlined support for time-based cost components, such as labor and equipment. This method supplements the existing actual method […]
