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Two new actions from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will impact your practice.
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Clinicians now have an approved indication in hand for use of the levonorgestrel intrauterine system Mirena (LNG IUS, Mirena, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals; Wayne, NJ), to treat heavy menstrual bleeding in women who use intrauterine contraception as their method of pregnancy prevention.
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If medical abortion using mifepristone (Mifeprex, Danco Group) and misoprostol is offered at your facility, be sure to review a new study that asserts the safety of a particular mifepristone/misoprostol regimen.
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As the United States gears up to combat the H1N1 flu (also known as swine flu), be sure your practice includes the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations for care of pregnant women.
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Encouraging news comes from the HIV vaccine research front, where an investigational vaccine regimen tested in a Thailand clinical trial has been shown to be well tolerated and to have a modest effect in preventing HIV infection.
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With upset, frustrated patients facing high co-pays and deductibles on the one hand, and increasingly complex payer requirements on the other, having happy access staff may seem like an impossible dream.
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These are some of the reasons that admitting representatives at Stanford (CA) Hospital & Clinics were recognized by their co-workers as part of the department's TEAM (Together Everyone Achieves More) awards program.
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Making customer service personal can improve the access staff person's own morale.
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Registration delays mean poor customer service scores for access --- which in turn means big headaches for patient access directors.
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Now that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released an interim final rule implementing the breach notification provisions of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, risk managers and compliance officers have been huddling with their teams (including their attorneys) to determine exactly how it will impact them and what steps they must take to be in compliance.
