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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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Make sure you get everything right the first time. That's certainly not new advice for patient access staff, but in this case it specifically refers to applications made for coverage of patients by the federal disability program.
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As a manager, are you playing chess or checkers? That's the question posed by Tony Coletta, MS, PHR, an organizational development consultant for Chicago-based Advocate Health Care.
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After 12 years on the provider side of the revenue cycle, and another 12 in outsourcing or consulting, James F. Heinking, CHFP, FHFMA, finds that the health care professionals he meets and works with "keep talking about the same issues we had 24 years ago."
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Planning is under way for a new ambulatory business center that will consolidate a wide range of outpatient functions at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock.
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Raising the value of patient access professionals throughout the health care industry continues to be a major focus of the National Association for Healthcare Access Management (NAHAM), says new President Julie Johnson, CHAM, director of health information management for Mt. Graham Regional Medical Center in Safford, AZ.
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The Joint Commission has reiterated its standards require a clean hospital environment in light of comments and criticism at the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's April 16th hearing on "Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs): A Preventable Epidemic."
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The Joint Commission continues to emphasize the patient safety issue of medication administration, warning that children are at particular risk of harmful medication errors.
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This past winter, influenza vaccine expert Gregory Poland, MD, director of the Mayo Vaccine Research Group at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, got the flu. Yes, he had the flu vaccine. But this year, the vaccine was not a good match with the prevailing strains.
