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Not all incentives have to come in the form of large checks or expensive prizes to be effective. Just ask the folks at Comprehensive Health Services (CHS). With a simple, inexpensive device and a basic team competition, they have gotten thousands of employees to participate in a walking program.
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Testing for substance abuse through traditional methods such as urinalysis or saliva analysis may be a given in many businesses and industries today, but it is not without its flaws. In fact, say some observers, there are much better methods available to help ensure safety and optimal performance.
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Significant planning and organization is necessary to accomplish an efficient hospital-based smallpox vaccination program, but it can be done successfully, reports Kathy Lynn Emanuelsen, RN, Med, director of occupational health at Hartford (CT) Hospital.
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Much discussion has centered on the physiological signs and symptoms of the various weapons of mass destruction, but what about the psychological state of the public after an attack?
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As previously reported in Bioterrorism Watch, top government health officials are pushing mass smallpox vaccinations in the health care system because they fear that Iraq possesses smallpox virus with bioengineered . . . transmission characteristics.
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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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When a 57-year-old man walked into the emergency department (ED) at North Broward Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, FL, with slurred speech and left facial drooping, his wife told nurses that the symptoms had started about 30 minutes earlier. We immediately assumed the worst case scenario: that it was a stroke, says Sharon S. Cohen, RN, MSN, CEN, CCRN, trauma clinical nurse specialist.
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Brown County General Hospital more than doubled its upfront cash collections over the past year by offering incentives to both registrars and their bosses, says Barb Dailey, patient access director at the Georgetown, OH, facility.
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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.