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If you are charged with administering the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), you probably find it difficult to effectively monitor intermittent leave.
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With the increasing skill of our NICUs in saving extremely premature babies and the capability of rescuing children with acute illnesses and injuries in our PICUs, children with special healthcare needs are being discharged from tertiary centers and returning to their home communities.
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A woman pregnant with twins delivered her first baby without incident, but then experienced complications as she was in the process of delivering the second baby. The second baby was experiencing cord prolapse, and his heart rate plummeted. The physician continued to attempt to deliver the second baby vaginally for 10 minutes, but she eventually called for a cesarean. Fifteen minutes later, the baby was born and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy.
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The Government Accountability Office says that even though the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is undertaking a number of activities to pursue President Bush's goal for nationwide implementation of health information technology, it still has not developed a national strategy that defines plans, milestones, and performance measures for reaching the goal of interoperable electronic health records by 2014.
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The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) says the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should adopt a policy for the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) to allow individuals to have limited control, in a uniform manner, over disclosure of certain sensitive health information for purposes of treatment.
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The State of Tennessee has expanded an existing contract with AT&T to provide the country's first statewide system to electronically exchange patient medical information.
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An 85% increase in the number of Internet hacker attacks on its health care clients has been reported by SecureWorks, a security-as-a-service provider. The company says attempted attacks have increased from an average of 11,146 per client per day in the first half of 2007 to an average of 20,630 per client per day in the last half of 2007 through January 2008.
