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Risk Management Emerging as Credit Strength
Nonprofit hospitals are focused on risk management as a crucial variable in financial analyses and an increasingly important credit strength, Moody’s Investors Service says in a new report.
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EMR Faults Can Be Major Factors in Med/Mal Cases
As useful as electronic medical records can be and as much as they can improve patient safety, they also can pose significant liability risks if they inadvertently introduce errors or make the record difficult to understand, medical malpractice attorneys caution.
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HIPAA Misconceptions Still Plague Healthcare Providers
Even after years of living with HIPAA and its many requirements, healthcare providers still labor under misconceptions that could lead to noncompliance penalties.
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Time to Get Serious About Behavioral Health Safety in the ED
Caring for behavioral health patients often affects timely throughput of all patients in the ED and they present many other risks in the emergency care setting. The future of rapid improvement in access to appropriate treatment settings and care providers is uncertain.
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OCR: Ransomware Can Affect HIPAA Compliance
Responding to the recent worldwide cyberattacks that affected healthcare systems, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights issued a reminder to covered entities about HIPAA rules on security breaches.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain
Low back pain and functional limitation scores in adults with chronic low back pain improved among those randomly assigned to receive either cognitive behavioral therapy or mindfulness-based stress reduction interventions when compared to usual care.
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Task Force Advises Review of Healthcare Cybersecurity
After the WannaCry cyberattack hit healthcare providers and other organizations worldwide, the federal Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force released a report that offers recommendations for action to be taken by the healthcare industry, Congress, HHS, and other groups.
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Alzheimer’s Prevention: No Harm in ‘Forgetting’ Vitamin E and/or Selenium
This large-scale study of asymptomatic elderly men reveals no indication that selenium or vitamin E (taken alone or in combination) prevents development of dementia.
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Cyberattack Shows Threat to Patient Safety, Liability Risks
The threat to patient safety and the potential for resulting liability from a cyberattack was illustrated in the recent WannaCry attack that crippled the United Kingdom’s National Health Service and affected thousands of organizations around the world.
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Bergamot Shows Potential as an Alternative to Statins for Hyperlipidemia
Although larger controlled studies are warranted, bergamot supplementation may be an alternative approach to improving cardiovascular risk in patients who are unable or unwilling to take pharmaceutical HMG-CoA reductase or PCSK9 inhibitors.