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Care decision guides are available on-line
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A patient tracker used throughout the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) had its beginnings when an information technology support person for the emergency department (ED) was asked to replace the "white boards" that were being used to keep up with patients' location.
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Within days of Hurricane Katrina lashing the Gulf Coast states, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) reminded providers through mailed notices and news media announcements that the privacy rule allows patient information to be shared to assist in disaster relief efforts and in providing patients the care they need.
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The Department of Health and Human Services published Sept. 14 an extension to the interim final rule establishing procedures for imposition of civil money penalties on entities that violate HIPAA administrative simplification standards.
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mark McClellan said the federal government will not process incoming non-HIPAA-compliant Medicare claims submitted for payment on and after Oct. 1, 2005. That decision ended a portion of CMS' HIPAA contingency plan that was in effect since Oct. 16, 2003, under which Medicare continued accepting noncompliant claims after the deadline.
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The Department of Health and Human Services published in the Sept. 23 Federal Register a proposal for adoption of standards for certain attachments to electronic health care claims under HIPAA. The proposed standard would require doctors, hospitals, and other covered entities to use certain transactions, messaging standards, and a new code set when they electronically request the additional information and provide the information in response to the request related to health plans processing claims.
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When Hurricane Wilma hit the east coast of Florida on Oct. 24, 2005, staff at Martin Memorial Medical Center in Stuart were able to do "more laughing than crying,"...
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Although Children's Hospital of Alabama in Birmingham ... contracts with a company to do internal customer service surveys, the time lag between patient visits and follow-up phone calls can leave something to be desired ...
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Most hospitals interviewed in 2005 in 12 U.S. communities had recently changed their pricing, billing, and collection policies for low-income, uninsured patients ...
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Baylor Health Care - which began automating the check-in process at its Sammons Breast Imaging Center in Dallas more than a year ago - is now extending the concept throughout the health system.
