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Three white papers on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements on risk analysis and employer issues related to security implementation are available from the Reston, VA-based Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI).
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Same-day surgery managers who want to see how their compliance with the national patient safety goals from the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations compares to compliance of all organizations that have undergone surveys can check out the results on the Joint Commission web site.
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The Harrisburg-based Pennsylvania Department of Health has announced a move that has gotten the attention of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) nationwide: Surgery centers in that state no longer can perform some laparoscopic procedures, such as laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
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Answers to your questions about job responsibility. Licensure requirements, room turnover, locker room space, and post-op phone call issues are addressed.
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Surgical Events, Product or Device Events, Patient Protection Events, Care Management Events, Environmental Events, and Criminal Events.
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Dexter F, Macario A. When to release allocated operating room time to increase operating room efficiency. Anesth Analg 2004; 98:758-762.
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Although the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has provided a standardized, national road map to improvement of patient safety with its national patient safety goals, two states have approached patient safety as a statewide initiative that requires collaboration and communication.
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The following new goals and/or requirements apply to hospital-based, freestanding, and office-based same-day surgery programs. The new goals or requirements are indicated in bold.
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Hospitals would receive a 6.6% total increase in payments for outpatient services under a proposed outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) rule issued for calendar year 2005. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) includes a 3.3% payment rate increase for OPPS services.
