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  • Simple methods improve hand-washing compliance

    Its no secret that compliance with hand hygiene is a key element in reducing the rate of hospital-acquired infections. Yet changing physician behavior often is easier said than done.
  • HIPAA Regulatory Alert: HIPAA Q&A

    Does the security rule specify how a risk analysis must be conducted?; How should passwords be chosen to ensure security?; Can a home health agency post thank-you letters from patients on a bulletin board that can be seen by staff and other patients?
  • HIPAA Regulatory Alert: Survey shows physicians not ready for HIPAA

    Rhode Islands Seacrest DocSecurity surveyed more than 500 physicians nationwide late in 2003, questioning them on requirements that insurance companies ask for before underwriting physicians and hospitals for insurance, and concluded that while physicians generally believe they are HIPAA-compliant, in fact they have only met a portion of the HIPAA requirements, leaving them vulnerable to lawsuits.
  • HIPAA Regulatory Alert: Hospitals having problems with privacy reg, AHA says

    American Hospital Association attorney Lawrence Hughes said there are aspects of the privacy rule that still are not working well and are creating unnecessary burdens for hospitals, with little benefit to patients.
  • HIPAA Regulatory Alert: The HIPAA privacy rule - Sorting myths from facts

    In testimony late last year before the Department of Health and Human Services National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics Subcommittee on Privacy and Confidentiality, Health Privacy Project executive director Janlori Goldman submitted 13 common myths that persist about the HIPAA privacy regulation and the facts that respond to those myths.
  • Legal Review & Commentary: A baby’s death and a $5 million settlement

    A woman in labor told an attending nurse that she thought the hospital and the obstetrician were not attending to her in a timely manner. The labor and delivery nurse contacted her obstetrician, but he failed to appropriately respond. The nurse should have contacted her supervisors about the womans concerns and the physicians failure to take action, but didnt. The fetus suffered severe brain damage because of a delay in delivery and subsequently died 11 months later.
  • Doctor in pain case must attend education courses

    The Medical Board of California has issued a severe reprimand to a physician accused of providing inadequate pain relief to a dying man, requiring him to attend advanced training to improve his performance.
  • In-house education: It may have a big payoff

    Educating physicians about risk management issues can be difficult and time-consuming, so its tempting to let your insurer send in a speaker once in a while and leave it at that. But the risk manager at a Texas hospital says youll get better results by developing your own in-house education program for physicians.
  • Case of the killer nurse reveals new-hire obstacles

    A nurse who admitted to authorities that he killed 30-40 severely ill patients is putting the spotlight on the difficulty of investigating the backgrounds of those applying for patient care positions in health care, says the CEO of the hospital where many of the deaths are thought to have occurred.
  • Surgeon or nurse should mark the operative site

    At a recent press conference concerning the Universal Protocol to prevent wrong-site surgery, proponents answered some of the most frequent questions about how to follow the protocol.