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Manual helps to improve medication reconciliation
Unintentional medication discrepancies during transitions in care pose a major threat to patient safety, with up to 67% of inpatients having at least one unexplained discrepancy in their prescription medication history at the time of admission, according to the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) in Philadelphia.
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Survey of impact from first year of ACA enrollment
The number of Americans reporting they did not receive needed healthcare because of its cost dropped for the first time since 2003, from 80 million in 2012 to 66 million, according to the just-released 2014 Biennial Health Insurance Survey from The Commonwealth Fund in New York City.
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Malpractice suit filed in Joan Rivers’ death
Melissa Rivers filed a malpractice lawsuit recently against doctors and the clinic where her mother, Joan Rivers, died after a routine medical procedure.
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Settlement for misdiagnosing first U.S. Ebola patient
Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas announced recently that it has settled with the family of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States.
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Thousands of recorded calls provide good QI data
At Sarasota (FL) Memorial Hospital, all inbound and outbound calls are recorded for pre-arrival services, registration areas, and patient financial services.
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Experts advise compliance not same as security
The data breach at Anthem holds important lessons for risk managers, say four cyber security experts consulted by Healthcare Risk Management.
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Were access staff really as rude as caller claims? Recorded calls will give you an answer
Members of the patient access staff at Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC, weren’t too happy to learn that every incoming and outgoing phone call would be automatically recorded. However, their opinion changed dramatically after a few months.
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Communicating About Prognosis in the ICU
Effectively communicating a prognosis to a patient’s surrogates in the ICU can be challenging.
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Anthem breach traced to admin’s stolen login
The data breach at Anthem, one of the country’s most prominent health insurers, is thought to be the largest healthcare data breach in history by a wide margin. The insurer is reporting that the breach affecting 80 million people was traced to the theft of an administrator’s login key and password.
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NIST explains why infusion pumps are weak link
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD, recently issued a report on the security risk from infusion pumps.