About Everest
Everest puts the power of compliance in your hands through a state of the art, web-based platform. Medical device reprocessing compliance requirements for Quality Management System (QMS) are more demanding than ever. Everest is here to support your compliance efforts in your GI Lab, Central Sterile Processing, and perioperative environment.
Your time is valuable. Competing needs between operational challenges, and patient safety is not an option – don’t let QMS paperwork be one of them.
Are You Survey Ready?
The pressure on accountable care has increased the scrutiny on the accountability of compliance to national standards. Requirements are outlined in thousands of pages by many competing bodies:
- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- The Joint Commission
- ANSI / AAMI
- AORN
- SGNA
- Others
Our goal is to simplify compliance efforts so you are able to focus on optimal patient outcomes. Using the power of Everest Technology, you can assess, analyze, plan, and prioritize your efforts on any laptop of mobile device. Reach your summit of patient care – contact us today.
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Why Compliance Matters
Healthcare organizations continue to fall victim to adverse patient outcomes, undesirable headlines, and disappearing revenue. Protecting patients, and their families is at the forefront of any healthcare organization. Allocating adequate time, tools, and resources to reprocessing is critical in delivering a compliant product. The complex processes in central processing, and GI labs, paired with the increase in instrument complexity, have increased your risk of a failure event.
Where Is Compliance Going?
A perfect response to a patient incident, or compliance failure event is no longer enough. We have experienced the professionalization of medical device reprocessing over the past 30 years. Historically, national standards took aim at what to do in the detail of the process to create sterility assurance. New standards and recommended practices are geared toward improving the proactive quality of care that is influenced by many critical healthcare processes – central processing and GI labs included. This movement will continue to challenge managers within healthcare organizations to professionalize their quality management systems.
How Can You Keep Up?
The creating of a systematic program to proactively monitor critical processes, catch internal failures before they reach a patient, and deploys corrective and preventive improvements will allow your team to stay patient focused. The medical device reprocessing industry will continue to require advancements in sustainable and scalable quality management.
Understanding your current state, gaps in compliance, and required corrective action plans founded in evidence based best practices requires a complex combination of people, time, tools and funding. Adding the other supporting quality tools is a mountain to climb.
How Can Everest Help?
Everest Technology removes the barriers to a quality management system (QMS) allowing various levels of an organization to understand the current state, and provides access to the other aspects of quality management that are ready to be implemented. Through web based access department managers, infection control, and/or quality management can access the most recent survey results, prioritized project plan(s), and other tools to eliminate the areas of non-compliance.
Other Common Quality Tools
- Handbook
- Policy
- Process Mapping
- Record Keeping
- Surveys
- Planning
- Communication
- Monitoring & Validation
- Progress Tracking
- Design Controls
Benefits of Compliance
Can internal failures lead to improved patient care, or even increase margins? This question captures the desired result of the new reprocessing quality management trend. If your QMS is designed correctly, the answer is Yes! Let’s use data to find your internal failures today.
Internal failures are mistakes captured prior to point of use, or delivery to the point of use area. Improve patient care by proactively identifying a compliance risk prior to impacting a patient. These documented improvements can be found in the following areas: (1) positive patient outcome solidifies reimbursement, (2) operational costs – as the total cost of quality is the sum of the cost of positive quality initiatives and cost of quality failures. Reimbursement requirements are well known, however poor quality costs are less transparent. These are areas to consider:
- Procedure/Operating Room Downtime
- Schedule Disruption
- Investigation
- Product Rework
- Retesting Process
- Scrapped Material Goods
- Supply Chain Shortages
- Legal Costs
- Reimbursement losses & Downgrading
- Cultural Impact
Services
Everest’s quality management approach is driven by assessing current state through granular process driven surveys that reverse engineer standards, and recommended practices in critical, and complex processes. You log into our cloud-based platform for access to critical QMS tools, like the surveys, that allow you to create assurance around your product quality.
Once you set up your basic profile, getting started is as simple as answering questions on your processes. Our surveys follow the workflow process, and return a simplified compliance and non-compliance report. Our platform then allows you to review each non-compliance, confirm, and set a priority and your desired timeline. Lastly, using proprietary technology, Everest will process tool and product recommendations that you can obtain through a click of a button. Our goal is to empower leadership to take action, not do paperwork.
Everest focuses on the following critical areas:
- GI Lab Survey
- Pre-Cleaning
- Leak Testing
- Manual Cleaning
- High Level Disinfection & Sterilization
- Storage
- Central Processing
- Decontamination
- Prep and pack
- Sterilization
- Storage
- Workflow
- Vendor & Loaner Tray Management
- Cube Implementation & Training
- Program Optimization
- Dashboarding & Data Analysis
- Custom surveys to meet other business challenges (e.g. products, equipment, education, processes, etc.)
Should your staff not have the time, personnel, or you simply want an independent surveyor to conduct your survey, we can provide an industry expert at an additional cost. Please contact us for additional information.
Our Company
On behalf of Everest Technology, thank you for visiting our website. Much like mountaineers, healthcare leadership is consistently fighting uphill battles. We find that we share a belief that patient care is paramount to our success, and that regulatory compliance plays a key role in the delivery of care. Working together with healthcare providers, our partnership will help resolve cascading operating room complications through simplified compliance on demand. Compliance can feel like a mountain, we know the shortest route to the top.
Everest is a technology organization that simplifies compliance to industry standards that directly relate to patient outcomes. Everest provides a web-based platform to health care organizations that empowers existing leadership with the ability to perform consulting level surveys, and obtain custom, action-ready solutions at commodity costs.
We simply aim to support the delivery of patient first outcomes through compliance, and quality.
Our Mission
Simplifying compliance and solutions in complicated healthcare settings to improve patient-outcomes.
Our Vision
To resolve cascading operating room complications through simplified compliance on demand.
5H Culture
Everest values a ground-up culture that is comprised of the 5Hs. With patients and people first, we focus on the honoring the 5Hs every day. Matching our clients’ team approach to patient care, we are always:
Humble
keeping an open mind; a team will constantly out-think an individual
Hard-Working
self-motivated, and goal-driven
Honest
focusing on honest, professional, direct feedback
Helpful
leveraging the power of collaboration of opinions from our team
Happy
enjoying what we do; happy teams breed happy clients
Our Team
Much like mountaineers, healthcare leadership is consistently fighting an uphill battle with perioperative compliance. We share a belief that patient care is paramount to your success, and that regulatory compliance plays a key role in the delivery of care. Everest is a technology organization that simplifies compliance. With over 60 years of combined experience in technology and clinical leadership, our team is helping clients identify, understand and eliminate roadblocks to compliance.
Do you share our mission? Reach out and meet us.