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News: A man injured his neck and back after diving into the bottom of a shallow lake. He was transported to the hospital, where physicians became concerned that the man's central spinal canal had been compromised.
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These are details of some of the most recent medical helicopter crashes:
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An incident such as the Plaxico Burress gunshot injury should prompt risk managers to review all relevant contracts, bylaws, and related policies related to the legal obligation to report gunshot wounds, says Martin Kalish, MD, JD, a partner with the law firm of Arnstein & Lehr in Miami.
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A California hospital's efforts to improve the care of acutely ill patients who are in the emergency department or on medical-surgical floors rather than the intensive care unit has made it a 2008 recipient of the 12th annual Ernest Amory Codman Award, awarded by The Joint Commission.
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Washington, DC-based URAC, an independent, nonprofit accreditation organization, has unveiled significant revisions to its health information technology standards. The changes affect health web site accreditation and URAC's HIPAA Privacy and Security standards.
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Oftentimes HIPAA standards are not as straightforward as a hospital leader might hope or expect — but that's by design, says Beth Hjort, RHIA, CHPS, professional practice resource manager for the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).
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According to Jill M. Steinberg, a health care attorney with Baker Donelson in Memphis, TN, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) would prevent an ED physician from discussing a patient's HIV status with any other person, even if that person could be potentially exposed to an infectious disease.
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Do you assume your patient data are secure? You might want to take a second look. SecureWorks, an Atlanta-based security services provider, is blocking an average of 15,543 attempted hacker attacks a day per health care client, compared to an average of 1,581 attacks per day per bank client.
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Want to save money? Put up a cost savings suggestion box with rewards for employees and, potentially, physicians, advises Roger Pence, president of FWI Healthcare, an Edgarton, OH-based consulting firm primarily for ambulatory health care providers.
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The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) began in 1994 in response to concern over the quality of care, specifically operative mortality rates, in VA hospitals. Since then it has expanded to all hospital settings and come under the auspices of the American College of Surgeons (ACS).
