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Regardless of their practice setting, case managers need to take steps to maintain the confidentiality of protected health information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountabi-lity Act (HIPAA) of 1996.
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A good working relationship between a knowledgeable and effective case manager and a cooperative, clinically up-to-date physician can result in excellent, cost-effective patient care with superior outcomes and high levels of patient satisfaction.
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Clinicians at PacifiCare Behavioral Health use a variety of techniques to identify patients who may be at risk for suicide, beginning with a members first call to the managed behavioral health plans behavioral health line, which is staffed by customer service associates trained to identify members who need immediate interventions.
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The FDA has approved Pfizer's eplerenone (Inspra) for the treatment of congestive heart failure (CHF) in patients who have sustained a myocardial infarction.
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In this report, Higgins and colleagues report on a multicenter trial on the efficacy of cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with an indication for an implantable cardioverter defibrillator.
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In this study, Blackshear and colleagues report on their experience with thoracoscopic surgical techniques to close the left atrial appendage as prophylaxis against stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation.
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The efficacy and safety study of oral direct thrombin Inhibitor Ximelagatran Compared with Dose-Adjusted Warfarin in the Prevention of Stroke and Systemic Embolic Events in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation (SPORTIF V) was presented by Dr. Jonathan Halperin.
