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A step-by-step guide for small, rural, and suburban communities to prepare for and successfully respond to major local and regional emergencies has been issued by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
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A computerized "patient tracker" developed in-house at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock is being put to particularly effective use at the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy (MIRT), where patients move back and forth among different treatment areas during extended stays.
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A Computerworld survey of information technology managers and analysts found that five months after HIPAA's data security rules took effect, many health care companies still are not fully compliant with them. Those interviewed said technology, process, and budgetary issues delayed compliance efforts, along with what was seen as a weak enforcement component that has led many health care organizations to believe they could take a wait-and-see attitude toward the rules.
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The sixth in a planned series of seven HIPAA security rule educational papers deals with risk analysis and risk management. The rule's security management process standard has four required implementation specifications, including risk analysis and risk management.
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Health care organizations used to mention "re-engineering" expertise as they sought individuals to fill upper-level management positions, but now the operative word is "innovation," says Dee Hartung, vice president in the executive search division of St. Louis-based Cejka Search.
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When James Webster read in the October 2005 edition of Hospital Access Management that Admitting/Communications Supervisor Paula Caster, with Ridgecrest (CA) Regional Hospital, could find no free electronic mailing lists,...
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When the physician billing department at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center in Little Rock urgently requested that hospital registrars enter the patient's name ...
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Leading practice patient access professionals are keenly aware of the need to have a formal performance monitoring program in place.
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U.S. hospitals provided $28.8 billion in uncompensated care in 2005, up from $26.9 billion in 2004.
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To enhance patients' satisfaction levels -- not to mention their ability to rest and heal -- Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, NY, has gone "back to the basics," says Elodia Mercier, RNC, MS, ANM, administrative nurse manager.