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Childrens Memorial Medical Center in Chicago and South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, NY, have instituted a number of strategies to reduce falls among its young patients.
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(Editors note: This is the second in a series of articles about the risks of using e-mail in health care. Next months issue will include the third in this series.)
Chances are good that you have a policy on the proper use of e-mail within your organization and when communicating with patients, but it probably is time for an update to keep pace with rapid advances in technology and the way people use e-mail.
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Two hospitals run by Duke University Health System in North Carolina were cited in a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) report for mistakenly washing surgical instruments in used hydraulic fluid instead of detergent and failed to notice the mix-up for weeks.
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A new ruling by the Department of Justice (DOJ) sharply limits the governments ability to prosecute people for criminal violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), but that may lead prosecutors to hold your organization responsible for those violations instead.
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Patient handoff is a high-risk time that many health care workers dont handle as well as they should, cautions Meghan Dierks, MD, MS, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Clinical Decision Making Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in Cambridge.
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Meghan Dierks, MD, MS, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Clinical Decision Making Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in Cambridge, offers an outline of what information should be exchanged in an ideal patient handoff.
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By Jan J. Gorrie, Esq.
Buchanan Ingersoll PC Tampa, FL
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