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A new review of electronic health records (EHRs) by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority found that mistakes made in EHRs can be farther reaching than errors using traditional paper records, according to the National Association of Healthcare Access Management (NAHAM), referring to a story in MedPage Today.
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Almost $8 billion in meaningful incentives has been paid to 82,535 eligible providers and 1,474 hospitals for Stage 1 compliance, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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Even if your registrars have expertise and comfort with collecting, there are probably missed opportunities for point-of-service (POS) collections that add up to a lot of missed revenue.
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Would you consider having some of your registrars work from home? Some organizations are successfully doing this, reports Keith Weatherman, CAM, MHA, associate director of service excellence for the corporate revenue cycle at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, NC.
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Consider the following points when responding to a crisis, according to Adele Cehrs, president of Epic PR Group, a public relations firm in Alexandria, VA, that assists corporations with crisis communication:
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More than 30% of Pennsylvania healthcare facilities have successfully implemented 21 potential recommendations for preventing wrong-site surgery, according to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority (PPSA).
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News: This case involves the death of a 36-year-old woman following the caesarean section delivery of her first child.
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Risk manager, your time has come. With all the turmoil in the healthcare industry from changes associated with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), moves toward electronic records, and an increased focus on fraud from government regulators, you might be in more demand than ever before.
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News: In 2005, a 43-year-old man was crushed by an all-terrain vehicle when it crashed and flipped over while he was riding it.
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In 2006, Maria Cvach, MSN, RN, CCRN, assistant director of nursing clinical standards at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Andrew Currie, MS, CBET, the director of clinical engineering, were asked to head a team to reduce clinical alarms.
