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A looming deadline for the health care industry to comply with privacy regulations gains more significance with release of an additional 45 pages of regulations that include yet another compliance date.
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With the April 14 deadline fast approaching, emergency departments must make sure their processes, procedures, and documentation are fully compliant with the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. If theyre not, the consequences could be severe.
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Direct treatment providers, including EDs, soon will be required to provide each patient with detailed information about their privacy practices. The notification must be written in plain language, and must contain the following elements.
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For every ED professional whos had to deal with the onerous and time-consuming preparations for a survey by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, some good news: The Joint Commission has announced a major overhaul of its survey process intended to reduce both the expense and the documentation burden usually associated with accreditation surveys.
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Here is a timeline for how the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will implement its Shared Visions New
Pathways survey process.
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Details on billing for ED procedures.
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The enthusiastic response of states such as Connecticut notwithstanding, national leaders concede that the actual numbers of health care workers volunteering to be vaccinated is relatively small.
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Return-to-work (RTW) programs are seen as such an integral part of occupational medicine that it would never occur to most observers that there are a number of physicians who are ill-prepared to appropriately address RTW issues.
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Although the response to the Bush administrations voluntary smallpox vaccination has been underwhelming, one northeastern state is moving ahead with its program undeterred.
