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A California not-for-profit hospital is spending $50 million on new, advanced technology that promises fundamental changes in hospital ICU care and bedside medication delivery, all intended to improve patient safety.
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A California nursing home is being sued for elder abuse and investigated for Medicare fraud after a resident died in terrible pain, with his family charging that clinicians ignored his pleas for medication despite charting his severe pain.
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The mother of a premature infant who was placed in a hospitals neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) brought suit against the hospital and specifically against the NICU. The first trial resulted in a $2.4-million verdict against the NICU.
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You may wrongly believe that its impossible to give patients oral privacy in the hectic ED environment.
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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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The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a checklist to help health care providers who do business electronically and their business partners to comply with the administrative simplification requirements of HIPAA.
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Patient falls continue to be one of the most common causes of hospital-related claims for damages. Although the severity of fall-related claims is typically not high, the frequency highlights a major patient safety concern and should make this problem a high priority.
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Seven health care workers with a history of heart disease have died after being vaccinated for smallpox, leading the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta to add heart disease to the list of reasons to exclude individuals.