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Health System Finds Adding Pharmacist to Team Improves Diabetes Care
A care coordination team pilot project improved clinical outcomes by adding a pharmacist to the team to counsel patients with diabetes, according to the results of an unpublished pilot program.
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Hospital-at-Home Primary Care and Case Management Team Helps with Challenging Cases
As any case manager knows, preventing readmissions and ED visits by the most at-risk patients is an enormous challenge. It requires addressing all the social determinants of health needs they may have, as well as finding creative and affordable solutions.
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Hospital-at-Home Programs Can Work — Even When the Home Is a Car
A case management-style hospital-at-home program produced $6 million in savings and cut hospitalizations by 53% in one year.
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APIC, SHEA Say Mandate COVID Shots for HCWs
Although the federal requirement that healthcare workers be vaccinated against COVID-19 has been lifted, a statement signed by the nation’s leading infection control groups and various other associations emphasizes the importance of mandatory vaccination by individual hospitals.
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APIC Continues Fight, Urging CMS to Upgrade ICP in Nursing Homes
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology continues to vigorously argue that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services needs to significantly upgrade infection control in nursing homes.
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Welcome to the Briar Patch: Ethics of Antibiotic Stewardship
Applying ethical concepts to infection control and infectious disease issues, helps infection preventionists and infectious disease physicians reframe problems and develop “moral resilience” to make tough choices, said Olivia Kates, MD, MA, an infectious disease professor and director of research ethics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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Healing HCWs — Including IPs — Is a National Priority for CDC, NIOSH
Burnout among all stripes of healthcare workers — including infection preventionists — has become a dire situation warranting national action. Accordingly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health have released new research and emphasized available resources to raise awareness for an ambitious “system change” in healthcare delivery.
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CDC Draft Revamps Airborne Precautions, Calls for N95s
New draft patient isolation guidelines recently approved by advisors to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention call for scrapping the “outdated dichotomy” of droplet/airborne precautions in favor of a “continuum” approach to stop transmission through the air.
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OCR Updates HIPAA Assessment Tool
The Office for Civil Rights has updated a self-assessment tool that covered entities can use to determine how well they are complying with HIPAA, and the new version presents an opportunity to see how useful the resource can be.
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What to Expect After a HIPAA Violation
Discovering a HIPAA violation in your organization inevitably causes anxiety about what will follow and how bad the consequences can be. Understanding the process and what to expect can ease some of the worry and help you manage the process to the best possible resolution.