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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) patient safety system can be mined for strategies that could work well in your own organization, but another successful program from the VA could be directly available to all hospitals within a year.
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These are the categories of triage questions used by the Veterans Affairs National Center for Patient Safety (NCPS) to help health care providers determine what really led to an adverse event or close call.
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The efforts by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to improve patient safety are paying huge dividends for the hundreds of hospitals participating in its system of adverse-event reporting and analysis, suggesting that other health care providers could benefit from adopting the same techniques.
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According to a survey just released by the Minneapolis-based Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA), the health care industry is continuing to take the necessary steps to ensure compliance with sweeping changes required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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Hospitals are running the gamut of possible solutions as they struggle to interpret the provisions of the the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule, says Tony Mogavero, director of physician services for St. Petersburg, FL-based John Putnam International, a company that provides web-based and teacher-led education for access personnel.
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One of the major challenges facing case managers is what to consider when selecting comparative performance data. But that is just the first of several questions that must be addressed, says Patrice Spath, BA, RHIT, a consultant in health care quality with Brown-Spath & Associates in Forest Grove, OR. It also is important to identify and correct serious flaws in utilization and outcome data, she adds.
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Every year, Hospital Case Managements reader survey asks case managers what they like most and least about the newsletter. And every year, readers variously compliment and criticize us for the extent to which we cover clinical pathways.
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Twenty million ambulatory care patient records will be connected as part of an early warning system for terrorism-related illness outbreaks.
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The 1,000-page final outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) rule, which takes effect this month, provides the congressionally mandated inflationary update and increases overall spending, but still pays hospitals only 83 cents for every dollar spent on outpatient care, the Chicago-based American Hospital Association (AHA) points out.
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Making sure patients without an insurance plan for prescription drugs get the medications they need is an increasing challenge, case managers and discharge planners tell Discharge Planning Advisor.