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Health care risk managers have suffered from an image problem for too long, and 10 simple steps can greatly improve the way everyone else in your organization thinks of you, says Geri Amori, PhD, ARM, FASHRM, president of Communicating HealthCare, a risk management consulting firm in Shelby, VT, and past president of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM).
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A Frequently Asked Questions document about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule is posted on the Department of Health and Human Services web site.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has created a Privacy Accountability Database to aid in tracking, reporting, and accounting the disclosures made from all CMS systems of records permitted by the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
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The first task in drafting and negotiating Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) documents is to understand the requirements for consent, business associates, and covered entities.
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One of the problems facing providers under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) will be how to deal with minors, including newborns.
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In December 2002, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) released an extensive guidance outlining various aspects of the privacy portion of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). That follows a recent decision by HHS to place OCR in charge of enforcing HIPAAs privacy mandates.
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News: An elderly man was admitted to a hospital for observation. The following morning, the patient spilled hot tea in his lap during breakfast, resulting in burns severe enough to require surgical repair. The patient brought suit against the provider, which was settled for $100,000 prior to trial.
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The ongoing nursing shortage can have a direct effect on a patients survival after surgery, according to a new study.
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An independent health care safety watchdog has issued a critical alert to hospitals regarding a potential threat to patient safety caused by some thoracic catheters in Pharmaseal Thoracentesis Trays distributed by McGaw Park, IL-based Allegiance Healthcare Corp.