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It started out a simple premise: protect patients privacy by securing their health information. But the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is raising some concerns, not just among primary caregivers and treatment facilities.
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The draft guidance on financial conflicts of interest and research published March 31, 2003, in the Federal Register offers more questions to be considered than specifics to be followed.
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The Stanford (CA) University protocol application form includes a section that examines potential conflict of interest through seven questions.
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Before INTEGRIS Rural Health (IRH) implemented its physician-aligned model of case management, the process was piecemeal throughout the eight-hospital system.
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When Carol Reeder, RN, BSN, MSA, first goes into a hospital to consult on setting up a physician-aligned case management model, she encourages case managers to try to understand what physicians have to deal with in their daily practice.
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Todays case management departments need access to information as quickly as possible, and that can be a challenge unless your hospitals information technology (IT) system is tailored to fit the needs of the department and someone knows how to retrieve the information thats needed, asserts Don Collins, owner of Clarity Report Development, a Paradise, CA, computer technology consulting firm.
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a good skill for every parent to learn, says Jennifer Bay, RN, BSN, the CPR coordinator for Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta.
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Quality improvement projects can be especially challenging if you try to implement them on a systemwide basis across many health care institutions, but a diabetes project in Iowa shows that it can be done if you give people the tools and let individual organizations decide how best to use them.
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A quality improvement project in Dayton, OH, achieved a 36% drop in mortality from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) among a group of hospitals cooperating on the effort, and participants say it could not have been done without high-quality data collection.
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