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There is no doubt that an incentive program can result in increased upfront collections. There's also no question that it's more important than ever for patient access to get results.
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Training and education costs are often the first items on the "chopping block" when it's time for budget cuts at hospitals, which is bad news for patient access.
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A lead emergency department registrar position was created at Swedish Covenant Hospital, in order to improve collections in this challenging patient population, says Rose Jeanfreau, director of patient access Services at Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago.
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The energetic Christine Ginocchio (Director of Clinical and Molecular Microbiology Laboratories for North Shore-Long Island Jewish Healthcare System) began receiving an unusual gift beginning on April 24, 2009.
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Daptomycin is a lipopeptide antibiotic that exhibits concentration-dependent bactericidal activity against a wide array of gram-positive organisms.
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A study of immunoglobulin-resistant kawasaki disease in the United States was conducted using data from the Pediatric Health Information System. All patients diagnosed and treated for Kawasaki disease, including readmissions, were identified during 2001 to 2006 among 27 hospitals representing all geographic regions of the country.
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In response to a published metanalysis that concluded that cefepime use was associated with excess mortality, on November 14, 2007, the FDA published an "Early Communication About an Ongoing Safety Review of Cefepime (marketed as Maxipime)."
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Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), a flavivirus, is transmitted by rice field-breeding mosquitoes who have fed on wild birds, the natural hosts, and domestic pigs, which serve as amplifying hosts.
