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Healthcare providers can go overboard with efforts to comply with HIPAA, hindering the necessary transfer of patient information.
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Healthcare providers should use social media research as a defense tool when sued by employees and physicians, says Philip Becnel, managing partner of Dinolt Becnel & Wells Investigative Group in Arlington, VA.
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Huddles are used by many providers to improve safety, but there are few guides for how to conduct them. A specific format will improve the results of the huddle.
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A 10-year old girl died as a result of complications due to pneumonia after doctors mistakenly diagnosed her with the flu.
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A health system has reduced serious adverse events by 83% over five years. The improvement is the result of a system-wide quality improvement effort.
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It will take $4.1 million for Stanford (CA) Hospital & Clinics and one of its former contractors to settle a class action lawsuit claiming the hospital violated state privacy law by allowing the protected health information (PHI) of 20,000 emergency department patients to be posted online for nearly a year.
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An emergency physician is suing Spectrum Health for firing her after a post on Facebook. The post involved a patient who had been treated at the facility.
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The alleged claim by a fired emergency physician, that the chief medical officer (CMO) assured her that her job was not in jeopardy, could complicate matters for the hospital, which is being sued by the doctor, says Jason Koors, JD, legal counsel with MemorialCare Health System in Fountain Valley, CA.
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Riverside Health System in Newport News, VA, has fired an employee and is offering free credit monitoring to several hundred patients affected by a privacy breach that involved records covering four years.
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it will survey up to 1,200 covered entities and business associates to find those in need of a full HIPAA compliance audit.
