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Theres a nasty story going around in the Youngstown, OH, area. Nurses at an area hospital found out that new hires were getting paid more than those who had considerable experience.
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In a time of shortage, hospitals are looking for any and every way they can to differentiate themselves from other facilities. Being the employer of choice means fewer holes in the schedule, better patient outcomes, and a happier staff. For 67 hospitals around the country, one of the best ways they have found to differentiate themselves is by becoming Magnet-designated facilities.
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This isnt a story about how to attract high school and college students into nursing or other medical professions at least not directly. This is a story about how competing health systems have come together in North Carolina to share resources and ideas on how to solve the critical shortage problems facing health care.
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When an orthopedic resident was paged repeatedly to assess a patient with an open fracture of the forearm, he failed to respond. The resident was paged multiple times and took more than an hour to get to the emergency department (ED).
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San Francisco-area attorney Steven Fleisher, who is HIPAA consultant to the California Medical Association and provides compliance services to providers and employers, says that health care providers working in solo and small groups have the fewest resources available to deal with HIPAA compliance and are experiencing fear and loathing on the HIPAA trail.
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Medical Banking Project founder John Casillas says that one of the changes in the final HIPAA security rule eliminated any requirement to encrypt electronically transmitted protected health information, even over the Internet or other open networks.
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As hospitals fine-tune their HIPAA compliance policies and procedures, savvy access managers continue to find the Internet a rich source of information. Its particularly helpful for those who might still be involved in a crash course in HIPAA readiness.
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While providing headaches to many health care professionals across the nation, the challenges of HIPAA implementation led to a promotion and career expansion for at least one access services director.