HospitalPortal.net Announces December Webinar "Five Essential Components of an Effective Policies and Procedures Program"

Rolling Meadows, IL, November 29, 2011 --(PR.com)-- HospitalPortal.NET, a leading provider of secure healthcare-specific intranet sites for electronic information sharing and publishing has teamed up with internationally recognized Policies and Procedures authority Raymond Urgo for a compelling educational webinar. Most healthcare organizations miss the mark in defining their investment in their P&P programs. Join this session to learn the essential components and reasons for having a balanced investment in Policies and Procedures, and the consequences when unbalanced. He will share leading-edge practices for P&P and his observations as to where most healthcare organizations stand in their P&P investments. Topics related to P&P programs will include the content development process, communicating content, organizing content, technology, expertise.

This session will also cover guidelines to tame the multitude of Policies and Procedures that today's healthcare organizations must enforce to remain viable. Specifically, best practices for organizing Policies and Procedures, especially in complex organizations, and proactively educating targeted staff to avoid overexposure will be discussed.

Their presenters will discuss the traditional methods compared to the latest trends in the automation of policy & procedure management through web based applications. They will also review best practices for managing policies and procedures in an electronic or web format. In addition there will be a live demonstration HospitalPortal.net Policy Manager. The Policy Manager is a centralized system for managing policies, procedures, and documents across departments in hospitals and other healthcare organizations.

This 45 minute webinar will take place on Tuesday December 6th at 2:00pm CDT / 3:00pm EDT.

For more information and to register for this webinar, visit http://www.hospitalportal.net/hospitalportal/Main.aspx?tid=222

HospitalPortal.Net™, Rolling Meadows, IL, specializes in hospital and healthcare specific web portal solutions, custom software development and system integration services, which include built-in Joint Commission-compliant document management systems for healthcare facilities. The company provides self-service tools, document management and publishing tools for ease of access to both clinical and non-clinical staff members. For more information call (866) 580-7700 or visit http://www.hospitalportal.net.

Raymond E. Urgo, principal of Urgo & Associates, is an internationally recognized leader, educator, speaker, and author on the development, communication, and management of policies and procedures systems and content in organizations. He holds the honorary rank, fellow, in the Society for Technical Communication for his contributions in P&P to the technical communication profession. He is the publisher of the award-winning e-newsletter, The Policies & Procedures Authority. For more information call (323)851-6600 or visit http://www.urgoconsulting.com.

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