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At Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, patient access leaders developed training programs to allow front-line staff to have knowledge of all patient access areas.
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At Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare in Glendale, WI, patient access managers use productivity data, accuracy, and cash collection goals as key metrics to ensure they’re staffing patient access areas appropriately.
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The federal investigation into alleged billing fraud and unnecessary surgeries at a Redding, CA, hospital also has shed new light on potential abuses of a unusual Medicare reimbursement mechanism designed to help hospitals who perform difficult procedures or care for very sick patients.
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In November, Oregon voters were asked to consider a once unthinkable measure: abolish private health insurance in favor of a taxpayer-funded, single-payer health system that would cover everyone.
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The term hospitalist can mean a variety of things.
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Though the number of programs to improve care for patients at the end of life have increased, little real progress has been made, claims a new report from Washington, DC-based Last Acts, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-sponsored coalition to improve care for the dying.
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The expansion of hospitalist programs at medical centers nationwide has yielded impressive benefits in terms of reduced costs of care and lowered length of stays, according to recent published studies.
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A list of all IRB Advisor articles published in 2002, organized by topic.
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A new federal advisory panel that will provide ethical guidance for researchers engaged in studies involving human subjects has been charged by the Bush administration to consider human embryos to be human subjects, deserving of the same protections currently afforded fetuses, children, and adults.
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The Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) published in October 2002 its revised and updated International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects. Here is a brief look at the new and revised guidelines.