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As patient access staff well know, managing patient identities is one of the hidden problems of health information exchange (HIE) and electronic health record (EHR) technology, according to the National Association of Healthcare Access Management (NAHAM).
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Here are some ways that patient access managers showed registrars their appreciation after Hurricane Sandy
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Hospitals are getting penalized for preventable readmissions, due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acts linking of Medicare payments to the quality of care that hospitals provide.
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If patients are financially cleared and pre-registered before they present for services, this situation give you the opportunity to obtain demographic information, but do you also consider the patients need for an interpreter at that point?
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention answers to common questions on reporting health care worker influenza vaccination rates include the following.
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Your influenza vaccination campaign is coming into the public spotlight, and that means more pressure than ever on the logistics of administering and tracking those vaccinations.
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Health department rules are broadening the scope of mandatory influenza vaccination policies, even as critics assail the policies as punitive and not science-based.
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About one-third of health care workers fail to get their annual flu shot. But look behind those numbers and youll find the true disparity: Barely more than half of long-term care workers received the flu vaccine last year, while the rate for hospital employees reached an all-time high of 77%.
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When a coronavirus recently caused two cases of severe respiratory illness in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, it was hard not to think of the challenging and deadly experience with another coronavirus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS.
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The most dangerous thing some of your employees may do each day is just sitting at their desk. Sedentary behavior long hours of sitting can increase metabolic and cardiovascular risks, even in someone who gets regular exercise on most days.
