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Now that the long-awaited revised accreditation standards from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations have been unveiled, what changes should you make in the way you prepare for surveys?
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Shown here is the policy that is followed at Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, CA, for credentialing of volunteer clinicians during a disaster.
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Recognizing and effectively responding to impaired physicians is a critical component of a hospitals patient safety initiative. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has an explicit requirement that the hospital medical staff have a process to identify and manage matters related to individual physician health (MS.2.6).
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Seven health care workers with a history of heart disease have died after being vaccinated for smallpox, leading the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta to add heart disease to the list of reasons to exclude individuals.
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Patient falls continue to be one of the most common causes of hospital-related claims for damages. Although the severity of fall-related claims is typically not high, the frequency highlights a major patient safety concern and should make this problem a high priority.
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The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a checklist to help health care providers who do business electronically and their business partners to comply with the administrative simplification requirements of HIPAA.
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Medical Banking Project founder John Casillas says that one of the changes in the final HIPAA security rule eliminated any requirement to encrypt electronically transmitted protected health information, even over the Internet or other open networks.
