Meet Vastian: The Complete Solution for Hospital-Wide Quality, Compliance, and Accreditation
November 11, 2024
Written by
Tom Ormondroyd
Chief Executive Officer
Meeting Quality standards within the hospital is critical to delivering safe and effective patient care. Yet Quality teams are often small despite their big responsibilities to implement quality controls throughout the entire hospital.
Perhaps ironically, these teams still primarily use manual processes to do their jobs, which forces them to focus only on serious events, regulatory deficiencies, and high-risk indicators, rather than proactively exploring opportunities for improvement or advancement. When the priority is only to manage the serious events or reactively mitigate deficiencies identified by third parties, it becomes challenging to see the direct impact of the team's work and minimizes their ability to quickly prove their effectiveness.
This is only magnified knowing that hospitals work in silos; different departments aren’t able to see what others are doing, translating to missed opportunities to learn from each other.
Vastian is changing this.
Vastian is for the whole hospital
Building on nearly 30 years in the lab as the pre-eminent quality software solution, and working with the majority of hospitals and health systems in the country, we’re bringing our expertise in quality management in healthcare to the whole hospital.
Our software enables better insights by helping you connect the dots between critical outcomes and performance improvement. These insights help Quality teams bridge the communications gap across departments to facilitate quality improvement.
Additionally, our platform allows teams to see and manage a full view of quality metrics and initiatives across the whole hospital from a single platform. This ensures all hospital and accreditation standards are being met, and you can show your higher standards when asked by surveyors, other third parties, or your own leadership.
We help you shift your focus from reactive risk management and mitigation to a proactive, patient-first approach.
The best part: With our fully integrated digital system, we make it easy to operationalize and automate processes, leading to better decisions. No more disparate solutions. No more hard-to-navigate programs. No more paper binders and manual processes.
There is no other solution like this.
Show your higher standards
We know that you know how to achieve your higher standards, but we also know you’re limited in your ability to do so. We understand that manual processes are laborious and are prone to human error.
Take, for example, quality initiatives — such as QAPIs — action planning, and rounding. These activities are usually conducted via Excel sheets, or noted on clipboards or in emails, and that’s just the first step. The small Quality teams are then tasked with aggregating data to uncover trends, evaluate care and processes, and prepare presentations for relevant stakeholders.
When all of these tasks need to be done manually and are completed by small teams, the focus is on urgent priorities, not on taking proactive steps to avoid being in a reactive mode.
Vastian simplifies and automates these processes, allowing teams to access all data on a single, adaptable platform. This not only gives teams the ability to highlight value savings to stakeholders and leadership, but also helps them connect the dots to see opportunities to proactively review and improve quality across the whole hospital or health system.
Live in a state of readiness
With Vastian, you can evaluate whether you are meeting each standard 24/7 and quickly and easily identify where deficiencies may still exist.
By proactively reviewing events, like fall prevention strategies or restraint use and management, teams can directly impact two critical hospital performance metrics: length of stay and readmission rates. These metrics can have a ripple effect on the rest of the hospital; extended length of stays can increase costs incurred by the hospital, and can create a patient backup that has a significant impact on the ER if the bed isn’t freed up.
We help you keep your finger on the pulse of every standard every day so nothing slips when your attention is required in another area. This enables teams within the hospital to elevate their ability to show their higher standards by meeting healthcare compliance regulations.
This is what it means to live in a state of readiness.
MediaLab will continue
MediaLab by Vastian isn’t going anywhere. We remain committed to providing the same reliable software to the 5,000 labs we serve and are excited to extend our solutions across the hospital.
We believe you should be able to work smarter, not harder; seamless integration with our quality platform will continue to bring centralization, collaboration, and enhanced quality improvement performance to the facilities we serve.
We also stand by our belief that software solutions should be easy to use. With Vastian, you’ll still have access to all of our current and future applications, customizable reports, automated to-do lists for employees, and easy-to-use solution menus and page layouts.
We’ll continue providing the stellar support you're accustomed to while ensuring the safety, stability, and security of our cloud-based platform.
Conclusion
MediaLab enabled labs to get organized and succeed in meeting regulatory requirements, transforming a highly manual and heavy paper environment into a sophisticated, efficient, and digital one. We see the urgency of bringing the same transformation to hospitals and health systems.
Vastian allows you to simplify and accelerate actions by making the whole process yours, enabling you to show your higher standards.
Learn more about Vastian and how we can help you centralize your quality efforts.