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When a medical helicopter goes down, there often is more than one cause. Bad risk assessment, insufficient technology, and pilot error can combine to create a tragedy.
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This is the first in a two-part series about the hidden risks and liabilities of medical helicopters.
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According to Jill M. Steinberg, a health care attorney with Baker Donelson in Memphis, TN, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) would prevent an ED physician from discussing a patient's HIV status with any other person, even if that person could be potentially exposed to an infectious disease.
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Oftentimes HIPAA standards are not as straightforward as a hospital leader might hope or expect — but that's by design, says Beth Hjort, RHIA, CHPS, professional practice resource manager for the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).
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Washington, DC-based URAC, an independent, nonprofit accreditation organization, has unveiled significant revisions to its health information technology standards. The changes affect health web site accreditation and URAC's HIPAA Privacy and Security standards.
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Patient access staff will have to get used to a change for Medicare patients, with the new Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage (ABN) form now used for all situations where Medicare payment is expected to be denied. The form, implemented by the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS), becomes mandatory
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A comprehensive system to ensure that patients with pneumonia receive recommended care resulted in a significant increase in quality measure scores at Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC.
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After Concord (NH) Hospital's multidisciplinary cardiac care team began holding daily collaborative rounds with patients and family members on the cardiac patient care unit, length of stay decreased and patient satisfaction scores rose.
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The largest health plans appear to be in the process of adopting guidelines from the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) for machine-readable insurance cards, according to Peter Barry, of Peter T. Barry Co., a Milwaukee-based consulting firm specializing in health care and information systems. Barry is chair of WEDI's initiative on health identification cards.
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If your hospital is like most, patients admitted through the emergency department are being held, possibly in hallways, for hours and even days.