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The SCPIE Companies, an insurer in Los Angeles, recently offered its own advice on reducing the risk of e-mail communication in health care. In addition to endorsing the eRisk guidelines, SCPIE says health care providers must be careful about when they choose to use e-mail.
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Whether or not your hospital staff decide to participate in a voluntary smallpox vaccination program, there are Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) issues involved by virtue of the fact that anyone is giving them, says Stephen Frew, JD, a longtime specialist in EMTALA compliance.
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Final security standards under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for protecting patient health information when it is maintained or transmitted electronically have been adopted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Its been more than a decade since Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network in Allentown, PA, took its discharge planning and utilization management functions and created a resource utilization department with a single director, says Susan Lawrence, MS, CPHQ, administrator of quality and case management.
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Providence Health System in Portland, OR, has improved customer service and gained staff efficiency by creating a call center that allows patients to handle physician and hospital billing questions with one telephone call.
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Alefacept is a new biological agent for the treatment of moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis. The drug, which targets T lymphocytes, is a fusion protein combining the binding site of lymphocyte function-associated antigen-3 and the Fc portion of human IgG1.
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Women who habitually sleep 5 or fewer or 9 or more hours per night have an increased risk of coronary heart disease compared with those who sleep 7 or 8 hours a night.
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Smallpox Vaccination Guidelines Published by CDC; Nurses: Delay
Vaccination Program; Viagra Effective for Depression Treatment;
Finisteride/Doxazosin no Better than Placebo for Urinary Obstruction;
Serevent Receives Dear Doctor Letter
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Clinical Scenario: The ECG in the Figure shows normal sinus rhythm at a rate of 80 beats/minute. The PR, QRS, and QT intervals are normal. There is an rSR pattern in lead III. The axis is +40°. There is no sign of chamber enlargement. The most remarkable finding on this tracing is the presence of subtle but real ST segment elevation in multiple leads including I, II, aVF, and V2 through V6.