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Start Early to Overcome the Challenges of Complex Patients
Timely and safe discharges are more important than ever in today’s healthcare world, but an increase in complex patients makes creating a discharge plan a challenge.
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Per-record Cost of Data Breaches Increasing
The cost of healthcare data breaches continue to remain the highest out of any industry, with an average cost of $380 per record, according to a recent report from the Ponemon Institute.
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New Breach Reporting Tool Helps With HIPAA Response
A new breach reporting tool should be useful for HIPAA compliance, partly because it can help providers stay on top of what is currently trending in cyberattacks and other types of breaches.
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Myriad State Requirements Complicate Breach Response
When you realize there has been a breach of protected health information, your first thought is of HIPAA and how to satisfy federal requirements for responding. But that is far from the end of your obligation, as state requirements can be just as onerous.
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Medical Malpractice Case Disguised as Fraud Dismissed
News: In 2011, a woman presented to a Missouri medical clinic for treatment relating to her inflamed gallbladder. During a diagnostic scan, the patient was injected with substances that ultimately caused her tremendous discomfort and psychological trauma. She filed suit against the medical clinic, claiming that alleged representations made by unidentified medical professionals amounted to fraud. The trial court granted the defendant’s motion to dismiss, finding the patient to have filed the petition untimely.
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Misdiagnosis Leads to Sepsis, Amputations, and $16.5 Million Verdict
News: In Wisconsin in mid-2011, a woman suffered gangrene, resulting in the amputation of her four extremities. The cause of the gangrene was a septic infection resulting from an untreated infection that was not disclosed to the patient, or treated. At trial, the jury awarded the patient $15 million, and her husband $1.5 million for loss of consortium.
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Survey: Most Health Providers Use No Cybersecurity Software
Most healthcare providers do not use any software for information security governance or risk management to protect against cyberattacks, according to a recent survey, which also found providers fear their own employees the most.
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Carolina Healthcare System to Pay $6.5 Million for False Claims
Carolinas Healthcare System (CHS) has agreed to pay the federal government $6.5 million to resolve allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act by up-coding claims for urine drug tests to receive higher payment than allowed for the tests.
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Lawyer Reprimanded for Penis Amputation Lawsuit
A lawyer who represented a client in a case that gained national media attention has been reprimanded by the court for not reviewing medical records to determine if his client’s case was viable.
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Factor Consumerism Into Risk Management
Consumerism is a growing force in healthcare and should be incorporated into a hospital or health system’s risk management strategy, says Jane Harper, CISSP, CRISC, CRCMP, ISA, PCIP, CISA, ITIL, director of privacy and security risk manager at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit.