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San Francisco-area attorney Steven Fleisher, who is HIPAA consultant to the California Medical Association and provides compliance services to providers and employers, says that health care providers working in solo and small groups have the fewest resources available to deal with HIPAA compliance and are experiencing fear and loathing on the HIPAA trail.
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You may wrongly believe that its impossible to give patients oral privacy in the hectic ED environment.
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The mother of a premature infant who was placed in a hospitals neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) brought suit against the hospital and specifically against the NICU. The first trial resulted in a $2.4-million verdict against the NICU.
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A California nursing home is being sued for elder abuse and investigated for Medicare fraud after a resident died in terrible pain, with his family charging that clinicians ignored his pleas for medication despite charting his severe pain.
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A California not-for-profit hospital is spending $50 million on new, advanced technology that promises fundamental changes in hospital ICU care and bedside medication delivery, all intended to improve patient safety.
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The road has been paved for using bar codes on all medications to reduce errors, with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announcing recently that is proposing a rule requiring bar codes on all medication packages, a mandate that some say would significantly improve patient safety in the nations hospitals.
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For Baystate Health System, a $1 billion integrated health system operating in western Massachusetts, HIPAA compliance has been seen as more than a technology issue. It also is a major cultural and operational issue that has an impact on systemwide operations and the way the system and its staff interact with patients.
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URAC has released a draft set of HIPAA Security Accreditation standards for public comment. Once the program is completed, it will enable health care organizations to display a commitment to information security and demonstrate that they have adopted the necessary policies and procedures to ensure health information security.
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Time needed to document security compliance; OCR pushes for voluntary compliance; Help available for employers;
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A Mexican laborer injured himself on the job when a piece of metal entered his eye. He did not seek medical attention until the next day. The day after that, he was referred to an emergency department (ED), where the eye was finally appropriately treated. The surgery was performed too long after the injury occurred to save the laborers sight.
