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OIG’s 2016 Work Plan includes HIPAA and provider-based clinics
The 2016 Work Plan from the OIG of the HHS offers risk managers insight into what areas of compliance and potential liability will be the hot topics this year, and there are concerns in several arenas.
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Fear of repercussions different among nurses and doctors, report says
Efforts to encourage error reporting and voicing concerns about patient safety always have faced the hurdle of staff and physicians fearing there will be repercussions. Risk managers and patient safety officers have tried to address that fear in various ways, but new research suggests a “one-size-fits-all” approach won’t work because doctors and nurses have significantly different fears.
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The Risk of HIPAA Violations and Messaging Apps
Only 8% of healthcare institutions prohibit consumer messaging apps for employee communication, which risks violating HIPAA.
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Hospital revamps its security after psychiatric patient kills tech
A California state psychiatric hospital has improved the personal security systems for its staff members and revamped how it assesses potentially violent patients, with the changes coming five years after a technician was killed on the hospital grounds by a patient.
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Give special attention to the ED, or face significant liability
It can happen in any hospital: A patient comes to the emergency department and is determined to need psychiatric care, so a bed is requested. The patient waits, and waits, and waits. Three days later, the patient is still in the emergency department, and staff members realize he has a blood clot and pulmonary embolism that were prompted by immobility during the long wait.
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HHS offers guidance to patients on accessing their protected health information
Responding to complaints that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act sometimes makes it difficult for patients to obtain their own medical records, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights recently issued guidance to help people better exercise their existing rights for accessing that information.
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Data analysis reveals most common HIPAA violators
Several large pharmacy chains and health systems are among the most frequent violators of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, according to a recent report from ProPublica.
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Careful: HIPAA mental health change is limited, and not a free-for-all
President Obama’s recent announcement that he is changing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act to allow reporting of patients with mental health issues drew acclaim from gun control advocates, but the effect on healthcare providers was not clear. -
Patient attributes examined in provider electronic systems
More than a year ago, the National Association of Healthcare Access Management offered recommendations recorded in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s 2014 Patient Identification and Matching Final Report.
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Get registrars and clinicians on same page with collections
When patient access employees started point-of-service collections at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford, IL, complaints were “few and far between,” says Nicole Fountain, CRCE-I, CHAM, revenue cycle director.