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Finding a new way to educate employees about fall prevention is a big challenge because, though the topic is important, it can be hard to keep people's attention. One hospital found that an educational video starring its own employees and presented with a bit of humor effectively delivers the necessary information.
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With growing attention to the threat of privacy breaches through social media, some healthcare organizations are utilizing "user activity monitoring" to help ensure compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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In 2006, a patient was admitted to a local hospital after she attempted to commit suicide. Shortly after her admission, the patient and her roommate began to socialize with a male patient who was also admitted to their unit. The male patient entered the woman's room in the middle of the night and raped her. The woman sued the hospital for negligence, and a jury found the hospital negligent through its nurse staff and mental health workers. The jury awarded the female patient $150,000 in damages.
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Claims frequency has been rising slightly, which contrasts to the past few years in which claims frequency had declined or stabilized, according to the sixth annual benchmarking report on professional liability claims trends in the hospital industry from Zurich, a property and casualty insurance provider based in Schaumberg, IL.
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One hospital's experience with a temporary employee who posted a patient's information on online making fun of her condition and showing no remorse when challenged is raising questions about how hospitals can ensure temporary staffing agencies provide adequate compliance training.
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While planning its in-house education video on fall prevention, project members at Long Beach (CA) Memorial Medical Center, developed a list of topics to include and criteria for effective training.
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Data breaches in healthcare organizations are on the rise, according to the Second Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security released recently by The Ponemon Institute in Traverse City, MI.
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The ethical and moral obligation of healthcare workers to provide informed consent to donors is usually vast, and somewhat cut and dried.
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Medicare patients with advance directives specifying limits in treatment who lived in regions with higher levels of end-of-life spending were less likely to have an in-hospital death, averaged significantly lower end-of-life Medicare spending, and had significantly greater odds of hospice use than decedents without advance directives in these regions, according to a study in a recent issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
