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Every year, pharmacists at the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor prepare a million doses of medicines for thousands of young and often very ill patients.
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If you enjoyed your triennial survey, here's a chance to do it all over again the next week.
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News: A man diagnosed with bipolar disorder became extremely depressed. Believing that he required full-time professional care, his family physician arranged for admittance to a psychiatric hospital.
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News: After undergoing brow-lift plastic surgery, a young woman blamed her subsequent delirium on the adverse effects of the post-surgery drugs she was prescribed.
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... only covered entities and those people rendered accountable by general principles of corporate criminal liability may be prosecuted under criminal enforcement provisions of the HIPAA Administrative Simplification section.
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The American Hospital Association (AHA) says it is "troubled" by a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plan to publicize the identity of those covered entities given civil monetary penalties under enforcement of HIPAA's administrative simplification section.
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Barron Bogatto, JD, a partner in the health care and business transactions sections of Jackson Walker, a law firm in Houston, provides this summary of the gainsharing guidelines offered by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
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preoperative safety briefing in use at Kaiser Permanente hospitals always is held before any incision is made, but other than that direction, Kaiser leaves it up to individual hospitals to determine when to do it.
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The Doctors Company, a medical malpractice insurer based in Napa, CA, reported recently that premiums for new and renewing policyholders in Texas would drop by an average of 18%, ...
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A baby boy in extreme pain was taken by his mother to the doctor, who performed several tests on the child. While the mother and her baby were awaiting the test results, the boy's lips turned purple and he began vomiting.
