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HIPAA Regulatory Alert: Possible incentive for physician compliance

A security consulting firm that is providing security risk assessment and compliance review services for small health care related businesses says one way to increase incentives for physicians to come into compliance with HIPAA requirements would be for malpractice insurers to offer reduced premiums to those who have done a risk assessment and are moving forward on implementation.

HIPAA Regulatory Alert: Latest HIMSS survey shows slow compliance

The latest survey of 631 providers, payers, companies, and clearinghouses by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) indicates that as of mid-January, only half had completed testing for the Transaction and Code Standards (TCS), which standardized what information must be contained in electronic claims and how it should be transmitted.

Suicide prevention is important in all settings

Question: How much do we need to worry about the liability risk of patients committing suicide, as long were not treating them for a psychiatric problem? Cant we argue that we had no duty to detect their suicidal tendencies when treating them for something completely unrelated?

Study: Fetal monitors do not predict brain injury

Fetal heart monitoring does not identify babies who are diagnosed with white matter brain injury after birth, according to a new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

A nightmare situation yields valuable lessons

Imagine a scenario in which a patient dies from a medication error and then things just go downhill from there. As things get worse, the only good thing is that youre bound to learn something useful from the experience.

Patient safety often is about more than errors

A recent incident in which a surgeon allegedly arrived drunk for a procedure illustrates an important lesson about how broadly risk managers should educate staff about the concept of patient safety, says one expert.

Root causes of infant abductions identified

All the hospitals where infant abductions have occurred identified unmonitored elevator or stairwell access to the postpartum and nursery areas as a root cause, according to information from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

Most abductions don’t happen in mother’s room

The labor and delivery department may be where the risk of infant abductions is greatest, but it is far from the only area of the hospital needing a risk managers attention. Children are often taken from other areas of the hospital that may not receive as much attention.

Often neglected, the world of pediatric security can morph into a major risk

Have you made your labor and delivery unit a veritable fortress with high-tech equipment and strict policies to prevent infant abductions, while leaving the back door wide open? Children in the pediatrics unit can be just as vulnerable as infants, experts say, but risk managers too often put all their focus on protecting the newborns while devoting relatively few resources to other young patients.

Acute Bacterial Rhinosinusitis: Patient Assessment, Risk Stratification, Referral Strategies, and Outcome-Effective Antibiotic Selection, Part I

Endorsed by a multi-disciplinary panel of clinical experts, the Year 2004 ATBS Clinical Consensus Report primarily is directed toward physicians faced with the challenge of managing patients with acute bacterial rhinosinusitis in the primary care, emergency, and urgent care settings. The ultimate goal is to provide a concise, practical, and clinically relevant schemata for day-to-day patient management in which evidence can be put into practice to optimize clinical outcomes.

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