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If information is power, then employee health professionals are about to get a lot more powerful.
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As hospitals move rapidly toward an electronic medical record to improve patient care and coordination, employee health has a delicate task. Employee health can ride the wave to better use of technology but must still maintain employee confidentiality.
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Many hospitals have banned smoking from their campuses, but exposure to smoke continues to cause health problems in the operating room.
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Eleven years after Congress rescinded the ergonomics standard, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is preparing to wield its "general duty clause" powers to identify ergonomic hazards in health care.
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Measles cases rose to their highest level in 15 years in 2011, yet another reminder to be on guard for the highly transmissible disease, public health authorities say.
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In a directive for compliance officers, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration lays out the key areas of an ergonomics program for health care employers. This is what inspectors will look for:
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Closely tracking infections among health care workers helps Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN, detect clusters and prevent further infections.
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At the start of leading an 18-month pilot project to explore organ donation for patients who died in the emergency department (ED) at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Clifton W. Callaway, MD, believed the team was "creating, in reality, what the general public already thought existed."
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Access to the electronic health record (EHR) of an individual patient as well as what the person looking at the record does with that information remain concerns for all professionals and institutions involved in patient care.
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If a provider tells patients they might have been exposed to a blood-borne pathogen when they actually weren't, then the patients worried needlessly when there was no actual health risk.
