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This is an elegant study, which examined whether sinovenous obstruction may play a role in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH).
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A 42-year-old woman was involuntarily transferred from a community hospital to psychiatric facility after her attempted suicide. At the receiving facility, she was placed in an all-male ward, where she said she was sexually assaulted. A jury returned a verdict of $150,000, that was offset by her contributory negligence.
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Companies seek URAC security accreditation; HIPAA.ICC.NET started to facilitate transmission
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The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) has asked Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson to provide guidance in light of the fact that a substantial number of covered entities will not be able to achieve compliance with HIPAA Transaction and Code Set (TCS) standards by Oct. 16, 2003, as required under the Administrative Simplification Compliance Act.
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One of the nations leading medical messaging services has taken the lead in developing a sound business associate agreement to present to its clients to fulfill HIPAA requirements.
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A report issued by Palisades Systems Inc. in Ames, IA, and Clive, IA-based HIPAA Academy, says that health care organizations that allow peer-to-peer (P2P) and instant messenger applications to run on their computer networks risk compromising patient health information and causing HIPAA privacy violations.
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Now that two significant HIPAA compliance deadlines have passed the April 14 deadline for health care industry compliance with the privacy rule and the April 16 deadline for health care business operations to begin testing transactions and code sets its time to take stock of how far along health care organizations really are when it comes to HIPAA compliance.
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Its common for health care providers to have a process in which they review patients for their risk of falling, but too often that review does not include a pharmacist. A pharmacists review of the patients medications can dramatically reduce the likelihood that a patient will fall and be injured.
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The parent company of Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center in Chicago has agreed to pay $12.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a 15-year-old boy who died when he was shot just outside the hospital and medical staff refused to treat him because he was not on hospital grounds.