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The hospitals status as the only business in the world that cannot turn people away regardless of whether it gets paid is a fact of life that is being underscored more dramatically than ever as the nations uninsured population grows by leaps and bounds.
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A man whose familys high-profile and successful campaign to solicit a donated liver to save his life has died, eight months after the transplant.
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Accounting for disclosures continues to be the most onerous privacy rule requirement for health care providers to meet and the provision the federal government most needs to change, according a recent survey by the American Health Information Management Association.
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An advance directive form designed for the estimated 90 million American adults who read below the fifth-grade level has been released
by the Institute for Healthcare Advancement.
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Relief may be on the way for access personnel faced with explaining to surprised and irate patients that theyll have to pay for a test or procedure themselves because it doesnt meet Medicares medical necessity requirement.
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Catholic Health Systems in Buffalo, NY, is deterring insurance card fraud and taking a step approach to cleaning up its master person index through the use of a fingerprint scanner for patient identification.
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A tremendous opportunity for increasing revenue lies in improving your hospitals patient flow, says a senior manager who works in the areas of patient flow, capacity management, and care management for the international consulting firm, Cap Gemini.
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Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, IL, has made dramatic strides in increasing patient satisfaction garnering a national award in the process through a newfound focus on service excellence, says the director of therapy services.
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Mistrust of the medical and science communities may be discouraging non-Caucasian cancer patients from enrolling in clinical trials, a research group has discovered.
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The Medical College of Wisconsin is enlisting technology in the task of teaching investigators and research participants about the importance of obtaining truly informed consent in clinical research.