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DOJ Pursuing EHR Vendors for False Claims, Kickbacks
These cases should make risk managers more aware of the potential liability hospitals and health systems could face from using EHRs tied to fraud charges.
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Wrongful Delegation Can Happen Easily; Consequences Are Serious
Risk managers should educate nurses about the potential liability risks from wrongful delegation, which could threaten the nurse’s career and expose the hospital.
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Tough Topics Addressed in Educational Rounds
A Massachusetts hospital has found that interprofessional educational rounds can be an effective way to discuss adverse events and other topics that might be difficult for some clinicians to address openly in the normal course of their work.
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Evolution of Healthcare Industry Poses New and Ongoing Compliance Risks in 2019
The changing face of American healthcare is bringing new challenges for regulatory compliance. Value-based care is clashing with laws that were written to discourage fee-for-service fraud.
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Hospital Work Environments Tied to Quality and Ratings
The working environment of nurses appears to have a correlation with patient safety and quality, with recent research finding that scores improve when hospitals improve working conditions.
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Funding, Reimbursement Changes Coming to Care Delivery in 2019
Evolution in the healthcare industry brings greater need for case management services — but also results in more obstacles and challenges in how case managers accomplish their goals.
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OSHA Surprise Inspections on Illness and Injury Reports
Effective until mid-October 2019, the OSHA Site-Specific Targeting program may trigger inspections of injury and illness electronic data submitted by employers.
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Mandated Nurse-Patient Ratios Protect Healthcare Workers
A measure that would have mandated nurse-patient staffing ratios in Massachusetts was recently voted down, leaving California as the only state with a law.
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Interdisciplinary Care Rounds: A Key Strategy for Improving Case Management Outcomes, Part 1
In recent years, emerging best practice care rounding models have changed the face of how healthcare professionals perform rounds. Although these models result in better outcomes for patients, they remain an elusive, often misunderstood tool.
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Ethics of Genomics Consent: Little Is Known on This Issue
To learn where things stand on individuals’ views on privacy and genetic data, researchers analyzed 53 studies involving the perspectives of 47,974 participants.