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‘Credible’ Fraud Allegations in Billing, Data Privacy Challenge Compliance
Healthcare compliance challenges are constantly evolving, but two issues are always of concern: healthcare fraud and data privacy. Both need constant attention and a substantial amount of compliance resources.
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Avoid Simple Mistakes That Lead to HIPAA Violations, Data Breaches
A HIPAA compliance program must address the high-tech risks and threats that can lead to a data breach, but many violations are the result of simple, easily avoidable errors by employees.
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Run Drills to Improve Operating Room Emergency Responses
Hospitals typically run drills for a wide range of emergency scenarios, everything from shoulder dystocia in childbirth to an active shooter. But not as many run drills for an emergency response to the operating room.
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Obstetrical Claims Are Expensive, Require Focus on Unique Aspects of Care
The unique features of obstetrical care mean risk managers must guide clinicians to be highly attuned to the risks of individual patients while adhering to evidence-based practices — even when patients may have other wishes.
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Strict Rules Addressing Opioid Crisis Create Risks for Physicians
The opioid crisis has led regulators and law enforcement at both state and federal levels to implement strict limitations on prescribing that can create substantial risks for individual physicians and the organizations that employ them or credential them. Staying out of trouble requires a clear understanding of the rules.
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Mindfulness Intervention Well-Received by Palliative Care Providers
The intervention stemmed from strong interest in addressing providers’ well-being.
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Spiritual Care in ICU: Persistent Unmet Needs
The authors of a recent literature review looked at the current state of spiritual care in the ICU setting. The findings reveal both the benefits of spiritual care services and the persistent unmet needs.
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Study: Advance Care Plans Lacking When Serious Complications Occur
When patients with significant underlying comorbidities suffer life-threatening or serious complications at Indiana University Health, the palliative team is consulted. All too often, they find there is no advance directive in place.
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Call for Uniform Brain Death Standard: Opponents ‘Increasingly Vocal and Influential’
There are growing calls for a uniform brain death standard, but court cases and in-hospital conflicts continue to increase.
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Study Sheds Light on How Clinical Ethics Consults Are Categorized
Ethics consultations are categorized in a surprisingly heterogeneous way, found a recent analysis of 30 articles. The most common categories were do not resuscitate orders, capacity, withholding, withdrawing, and surrogate or proxy. Only 26% of the typologies (seven of 27 unique typologies) contained the five most common categories.