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ASCs, lab billing also in OIG’s sights
ASCs and clinical laboratories are among the many healthcare operations targeted for close oversight in the 2016 Work Plan from the OIG of the HSS.
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OIG’s 2016 Work Plan includes HIPAA and provider-based clinics
The 2016 Work Plan from the OIG of the HHS offers risk managers insight into what areas of compliance and potential liability will be the hot topics this year, and there are concerns in several arenas.
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Fear of repercussions different among nurses and doctors, report says
Efforts to encourage error reporting and voicing concerns about patient safety always have faced the hurdle of staff and physicians fearing there will be repercussions. Risk managers and patient safety officers have tried to address that fear in various ways, but new research suggests a “one-size-fits-all” approach won’t work because doctors and nurses have significantly different fears.
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The Risk of HIPAA Violations and Messaging Apps
Only 8% of healthcare institutions prohibit consumer messaging apps for employee communication, which risks violating HIPAA.
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Hospital revamps its security after psychiatric patient kills tech
A California state psychiatric hospital has improved the personal security systems for its staff members and revamped how it assesses potentially violent patients, with the changes coming five years after a technician was killed on the hospital grounds by a patient.
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Give special attention to the ED, or face significant liability
It can happen in any hospital: A patient comes to the emergency department and is determined to need psychiatric care, so a bed is requested. The patient waits, and waits, and waits. Three days later, the patient is still in the emergency department, and staff members realize he has a blood clot and pulmonary embolism that were prompted by immobility during the long wait.
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Jobs outlook improving in healthcare industry
The healthcare economy is improving enough that healthcare professionals are reporting significantly more confidence in their careers, and risk managers might have reason to feel confident in their futures.
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Incomes on the rise after being flat for six years
Incomes in healthcare risk management are inching upward after six years of stagnation. The jump isn’t much, but at least the trend is in the right direction.
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Risks increasing, but risk managers are losing traction in hospitals
At a time when the risks to hospitals and health systems are on the increase, some healthcare risk managers feel as though they are being pushed to the sidelines and their responsibilities delegated among other hospital administrators, says Leilani Kicklighter, a patient safety and risk management consultant with The Kicklighter Group in Tamarac, FL, and a past president of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management in Chicago.
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Medication mix-up leaves 51-year-old patient with permanent brain damage after heart surgery
In 2011, a 51-year-old man was undergoing heart surgery when complications requiring resuscitation arose. The man required cardioversion and was resuscitated after being shocked five or six times.