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Watch for Emerging Threats and Risks in 2023
Over the coming year, risk managers can benefit by watching recent trends in telehealth, labor shortages, and data breaches.
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Providing Legal Cannabis Can Bring Potential Liability
Physicians who recommend medical cannabis, and their affiliated hospitals or clinics, should be aware of potential legal risks, even when state law allows medical use. Federal law prohibits physicians from prescribing cannabis, even in states that allow its use. To enable the use of cannabis for medical reasons, some states use terms such as “recommendation” or “certification” as opposed to a prescription from a physician.
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Fire Safety Requires Ongoing Training, Hands-On Practice
Fire safety is a major concern in healthcare facilities, but the most effective programs include constant education and training that expose staff to the conditions they might face in an emergency.
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Data Indicate Hospital Stays Are Longer, Causing Discharge Delays
As patients wait longer to take the next step along their journey through the healthcare continuum, costs mount for providers.
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Clinicians Often Use Medical Jargon to Refer to Death
During family meetings, ethicists can gently clarify language to ensure everyone understands. Even the best communicators will encounter patients and families who will not or cannot hear the words spoken to them, especially if it is bad news.
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Working Collaboratively with Law Enforcement at Trauma Patient’s Bedside
Trauma patients and law enforcement might arrive together, raising multiple ethical issues — and a potential conflict with clinicians. While some clinicians say law enforcement should never be present on trauma units, others think law enforcement needs unfettered access. The answer likely is somewhere in the middle.
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WHO Lobbies for Updated Tuberculosis Vaccines
International organization says these investments could drive economic growth, improve health equity and antimicrobial stewardship, and lower mortality rates.
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Congress Issues Special Report on COVID-19 Pandemic
A select subcommittee exhaustively detailed what went wrong and offered suggestions on how to prevent future disasters.
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The Role of Critical Access Hospitals
In rural areas, critical access hospitals provide care to patients who otherwise would have to travel much further for adequate care. Serving in a critical access hospital can be a much different experience than a larger hospital system, or even a hospital in an urban or suburban environment. Due to lack of training and support, even the case management process might not be as seamless or efficient as it is in other settings.
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Understanding Bundled Payments
Bundled payments can be confusing for case managers to navigate. The philosophy behind the bundled payment reimbursement model is that in managing the patient carefully across the continuum, transitions will be smoother and the care will improve, all while staying mindful of how the dollars are spent. It is meant to be a meeting of quality of care and cost-effectiveness.