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As talk of reimbursement reform, pay for performance escalates, and health care stakeholders look at ways to improve patient access and outcomes while reducing waste and costs, payers and providers are joining together to create accountable care organizations (ACOs).
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For a decade, the Mollie Biggane Melanoma Foundation in Garden City, NY, has been educating people about the prevention and early detection of skin cancer and melanoma.
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To address the issue of low health literacy, The Humana Foundation is seeking ways to engage consumers at presentations on the subject. Presenters have been particularly successful with seniors, by dumping the PowerPoint and capturing the attention of this group of consumers through interaction.
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To improve health literacy, a key factor in effective patient education, medical facilities may want to consider forming partnerships with literacy coalitions in their area.
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In the first update of a hazardous drug alert since 2004, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health added 21 drugs to the list of drugs that may pose an occupational risk to health care workers.
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In the H1N1 influenza A pandemic, many infected health care workers failed to wear personal protective equipment.
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Nurses and pharmacists who handle chemotherapeutic drugs are unknowingly being exposed to a potential carcinogenic and reproductive hazard, and those with the highest exposures have significant chromosomal abnormalities, according to two recent studies.
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As the H1N1 virus receded even as a seasonal influenza threat, there was a collective sigh of relief in the health care community. It wasn't as bad as was feared.
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In an analysis of transmission of pandemic H1N1 to residents and fellows at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health advises:
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In a Health Hazard Evaluation, researchers from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health asked medical residents and cardiology, pulmonary, and critical care fellows at the University of Utah why they had reported for work sick during the H1N1 pandemic.
