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A coalition of New Yorks leading health care providers and workers, representing close to 75 hospitals, is protesting a recent court ruling that they say has sent medical malpractice premiums spiraling out of control in New York State.
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The Department of Health and Human Services says its interim final rule establishing rules of procedure for the imposition of civil monetary penalties on entities that violate standards adopted under the administrative simplification provisions of HIPAA will not be in effect after Sept. 16, 2003, because it will be replaced by a final enforcement rule.
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When two police officers arrived at a hospital emergency department asking to be informed if the facility had treated an elderly woman reported missing by her family, hospital staff contacted their outside legal counsel for advice because of wariness about HIPAA privacy regulations. And its good they did.
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As with many areas of health care, new approaches in technology have been sought to ease the way into compliance with HIPAA. One example is the HIPAA GUARD program from Monterey, CA-based Integritas Inc.
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After being admitted to a hospital for hip pain, a 69-year-old woman was allowed to walk about unassisted. Days later, X-rays showed she had a hip fracture, which was operated on. She was transferred to the nursing home next door to recuperate and be rehabilitated.
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If youre unsure what your hospital is doing to prepare for SARS, nows the time to get involved. The worst may still be to come say federal health officials who warn that the deadly virus is likely to reappear and cause deaths in the United States during the next flu season.
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The hospital at the center of Torontos SARS outbreak has responded with extensive precautions that risk managers find useful when planning their own response. North York General Hospital closed most of its services, including its emergency department, and enacted strict staff quarantine.
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The parent company of Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center in Chicago has agreed to pay $12.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a 15-year-old boy who died when he was shot just outside the hospital and medical staff refused to treat him because he was not on hospital grounds.
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Its common for health care providers to have a process in which they review patients for their risk of falling, but too often that review does not include a pharmacist. A pharmacists review of the patients medications can dramatically reduce the likelihood that a patient will fall and be injured.
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Now that two significant HIPAA compliance deadlines have passed the April 14 deadline for health care industry compliance with the privacy rule and the April 16 deadline for health care business operations to begin testing transactions and code sets its time to take stock of how far along health care organizations really are when it comes to HIPAA compliance.
