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Annual employee satisfaction surveys conducted annually by Greater Baltimore (MD) Medical Center have told Jeanne Day, RHIA, CHAM, director of medical records and patient access, a lot about her staff.
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Did you invest a lot of time and energy training a new registrar, only to have her turn around and leave your department?
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It's not possible to gauge the full impact that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will have on patient identification processes, says Robin Ten Eyck, CHAM, director of patient access at Sound Shore Health System in New Rochelle, NY.
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Eleven new questions and updated answers to other questions about the Meaningful Use Incentive Program can be found on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) web site.
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Fifty percent of data breaches are related to theft of portable or easily moved devices such as laptops, flash drives, and desktop computers, according to the most recent report from the Health Information Trust Alliance, a national consortium of healthcare professionals that focuses on healthcare data security.
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Even before headlines highlighted large fines for HIPAA violations, the compliance department at New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center in New York City decided to be proactive to meet the enhanced requirements of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.
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Fines of $4.3 million for Maryland-based Cignet Health and $1 million for Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston should give hospital staff reason to take notice of the stricter enforcement and higher fines included in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.
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This issue of Emergency Medicine Reports is the second in a two-part series on imaging and evaluation of stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA). Part 1 reviewed risk factors, history and physical examination, and computed tomography (CT) imaging. This part will review magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound techniques, and treatment.
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Hospital ethics boards now can refer to national guidelines when developing procedural standards and processes for evaluating quality of ethics consultations (EC) and institutional EC processes.