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A series of initiatives, including automatic triggers for quality measures in the hospital's electronic medical record and concurrent review by case managers for core measures, has resulted in significant increases in quality measure scores at Russellville (AL) Hospital, a 100-bed facility.
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Proposed state laws in Nevada in the wake of a highly publicized hepatitis C outbreak in Las Vegas include proposals to hire infection preventionists (IPs) as consultants to oversee practice in freestanding clinics.
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MLN Matters, published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), provides clarification about the Privacy Rule of HIPAA, when transferring private health information to potential post-acute providers:
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For professionals working in health care, it is easy to quickly become accustomed to the various presentations and stressors that accompany a patient who requires hospitalization. In fact, our efficient functioning is dependent on this to some degree.
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When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled the new MS-DRG reimbursement system in 2007, a data analysis projected that Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center was likely to lose about $500,000 with the new system, based on the hospital's 2006 data.
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Some time in the next 18 months or so, four different sets of auditors could be scrutinizing the medical records at your hospital. It's all part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Medicare Integrity Program initiative, mandated by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which seeks to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicare claims.
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Quality assurance programs for clinical trials do more than improve the data coming out of studies and the validity of the results.
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It's just about a given that informed consent documents making their way to the IRB for approval will need to be revised for comprehension and readability. Investigators and sponsors tend to include long sentences and paragraphs and technical jargon that leads the MEGO syndrome "my eyes glaze over," says Stewart A. Laidlaw, PhD, an associate vice president for compliance at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) in Torrance, CA.
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The new IRB Advisor pilot program at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick, NJ, resulted in a reduction in protocol submissions that had to be returned to investigators, according to the IRB director.