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In much the way 401k investment plans forever changed retirement benefits and led to the realignment of the financial industry in the 1980s, a concept called "consumer-directed health care" appears poised to transform the way health care is delivered.
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Approximately 92% of hospitals surveyed for a recent report by the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers said at least part of their bad debt could be classified as charity care.
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A series of MediKiosks designed by Maitland, FL-based Galvanon Inc. have cut patient check-in time at the Baylor Sammons Breast Imaging Center in Dallas from seven or eight minutes down to three, while winning broad approval from patients.
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Considering the ramifications of consumer-directed health care offers yet another opportunity to broaden the definition of access services.
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A method for keying ancillary department schedules enables patients at Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago to go directly to the point of service and have any missing pieces of the registration process completed there — unless there’s something unusual that needs to be taken care of in registration.
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Here are excerpts of the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) disease-specific guidance on whether health care workers should use surgical masks or respirators.
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If terrorists spread pneumonic plague in your community, will surgical masks be sufficient to protect health care workers? That question has renewed a controversy over respiratory protection, this time whether surgical masks are appropriate for some diseases while fit-tested N95 filtering facepiece respirators are required for others.
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Just as the Center for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) granted hospitals new latitude to place alcohol-based hand rub containers in hallways, new fire concerns emerged that could restrict the use of alcohol-based surgical preparations in the operating room.
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If you have doctors or nurses who still complain about awkward sharps safety devices, take a look at new technologies. Theres good news: Manufacturers have responded to concerns by producing safety devices that are more user-friendly, more effective, and integrate patient safety.
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Federal counterterrorism officials are warning about a disturbing pattern of incidents in which people tried to gain access to hospitals by posing as surveyors from the Joint Commission.