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Its been more than a decade since Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network in Allentown, PA, took its discharge planning and utilization management functions and created a resource utilization department with a single director, says Susan Lawrence, MS, CPHQ, administrator of quality and case management.
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Brown County General Hospital more than doubled its upfront cash collections over the past year by offering incentives to both registrars and their bosses, says Barb Dailey, patient access director at the Georgetown, OH, facility.
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When a 57-year-old man walked into the emergency department (ED) at North Broward Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, FL, with slurred speech and left facial drooping, his wife told nurses that the symptoms had started about 30 minutes earlier. We immediately assumed the worst case scenario: that it was a stroke, says Sharon S. Cohen, RN, MSN, CEN, CCRN, trauma clinical nurse specialist.
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Final security standards under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for protecting patient health information when it is maintained or transmitted electronically have been adopted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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It has been suggested that we may be entering into a post-antibiotic era. Disaster has so far been averted by the continuing development of new antimicrobial agents. It is now, however, clear that this flow of new agents, especially ones directed at resistant Gram-negative pathogens, has slowed to a trickle.
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Random skin biopsies may be helpful in establishing an etiology of fever of unknown origin.
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There may be a cancer risk associated with exposure of airline crews to cosmic radiation.
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An outbreak of human Ebola virus infection in Congo was preceded by a die-off of great apes, with the virus having been recovered from some ape carcasses.
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