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Three years ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American College of Surgeons (ACS) each brought a proposal to the National Quality Forum (NQF) related to measuring surgical-site infections.
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It's been 17 years since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was signed into law, but despite that, there are still plenty of organizations that aren't complying with its rules and are ending up paying millions in fines for their errors.
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It happened six months later than first expected, but on July 1 organizations became responsible for meeting the requirements of the standards for patient-centered communications, Advancing Effective Communication, Cultural Competence, and Patient- and Family-Centered Care: A Roadmap for Hospitals. An exception was the visitation standards, which went into effect July 1, 2011.
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Every now and then at Sunnybrook Health Sciences in Toronto, Canada, there was talk about getting ventilated patients up and about even if they were still intubated.
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When the Supreme Court released its opinion upholding the bulk of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) at the end of June, most of the commentary focused on what the law would mean to consumers.
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Imagine going more than two years nearing three without a single hospital-acquired infection (HAI) in your intensive care unit (ICU).
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Do you want a department that provides patient-centered registration, achieves excellent outcomes, and works well with colleagues in the clinical services you support?
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New way to present privacy and security info
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Tenet Healthcare Corp. has agreed to pay the United States $42.75 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by overbilling the federal Medicare program, the Justice Department has announced.