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The overriding ethical issue of a pandemic influenza â or any other health crisis involving a contagious disease â appears to be the dilemma of balancing public health vs. individual liberties.
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Medical ethics is not the typical topic of free community health discussions, but the staff at Winona Health's Senior Services, as well as staff at Home Care and Hospice in Winona, MN, have found a welcoming audience for the talk.
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Is reluctance to permit exceptions from informed consent in emergency research (EICER) preventing important studies from moving forward?
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Every patient access department would love to increase its upfront collections, but opinions vary as to the best ways to accomplish this, ranging from cash to pizza parties to simple thank-yous.
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Some patient access departments are finding they need to put technology investments on hold due to budget cuts, but automating quality assurance (QA) just might be an exception.
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Does your hospital include specific questions related to patient access when measuring patient satisfaction?
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A seemingly minor problem with registration accuracy can cost a hospital tens of thousands of dollars if it's not fixed quickly. Staff may make the same error over and over, resulting in a multitude of claims denials. That is why you'll need strategies to identify errors as soon as they happen, so staff can be re-trained and the errors stopped.
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In order to improve collection rates, thereby reducing A/R days, several revenue cycle initiatives are utilized at University of California, Los Angeles Hospital System.
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Is a patient's account uncollectible? Is your self-pay patient eligible for financial assistance? Both of these scenarios are becoming more common due to the recession and if the answer to either of these questions is "yes," you should know sooner rather than later.
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Health care workers or public health workers who were not using appropriate personal protective equipment during close contact with an ill confirmed, probable, or suspect case of swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus infection during the case's infectious period are indicated for post-exposure antiviral chemoprophylaxis with either oseltamivir or zanamivir, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends.