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Ever reflected on the absurdity of gearing up every three years to face the JCAHO surveyor piles of policies in hand and brass freshly polished only to heave a sigh of relief and go back to business as usual the next day?
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Consent form, patient care subject of new study; Interim rule issued for HIPAA penalties; Hospital mergers down, recent study shows; Medical liability reform still needed, survey says; More help sought for rural hospitals; LOS trending down, CDC survey explains
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Theres a new patient confidentiality development access personnel should know about, and it has nothing to do with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy standard.
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Dont let concerns about severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) prompt measures that will put your hospital at risk for violations of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), warns Stephen Frew, JD, a web site publisher and longtime specialist in EMTALA compliance based in Loves Park, IL.
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Registrars at the University Hospital of Arkansas in Little Rock are saving time and paper and creating more accessible records by scanning patients insurance and health information into the computer, says Mary Nellums, CHAM, admissions manager.
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One of the key ways in which the Oakbrook Terrace, IL-based Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) new accreditation model really blows up the old paradigm, says Joe Cappiello, vice president for accreditation field operations, is that there is no score.
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When an orthopedic resident was paged repeatedly to assess a patient with an open fracture of the forearm, he failed to respond. The resident was paged multiple times and took more than an hour to get to the emergency department (ED).
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San Francisco-area attorney Steven Fleisher, who is HIPAA consultant to the California Medical Association and provides compliance services to providers and employers, says that health care providers working in solo and small groups have the fewest resources available to deal with HIPAA compliance and are experiencing fear and loathing on the HIPAA trail.
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Medical Banking Project founder John Casillas says that one of the changes in the final HIPAA security rule eliminated any requirement to encrypt electronically transmitted protected health information, even over the Internet or other open networks.
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As hospitals fine-tune their HIPAA compliance policies and procedures, savvy access managers continue to find the Internet a rich source of information. Its particularly helpful for those who might still be involved in a crash course in HIPAA readiness.
