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A case in which a Lafayette, LA, case manager was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice should serve as a reminder to case managers that they must be familiar with the Health Insurance Portability and Accessibility Act (HIPAA) as well as their local and state patient privacy laws, says Elizabeth Hogue, Esq., a Burtonsville, MD, attorney in private practice specializing in health care issues.
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A study published in the March 1 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine1 found that interventions for chronic conditions in the Health Disparities Collaboratives led to improvements in processes of care, but the authors could not document improvement in clinical outcomes.
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You may be able to boost your influenza vaccination rates by requiring health care workers to sign mandatory declination statements. But declinations themselves may put a negative tone to the annual campaign.
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Truck drivers do it. So do airline pilots and nuclear power plant workers. Should health care workers also be subject to random drug tests?
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In the battle against nosocomial spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococ-cus aureus (MRSA), health care workers are more than just potential carriers.
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In January, a health care worker who worked in the maternity ward, neonatal intensive care unit, newborn nursery and psychiatric ward of St. Barnabas Hospital in New York City was diagnosed with active tuberculosis.
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Consider yourself forewarned: It's time to switch to blunt suture needles in the OR.
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Lift teams aren't just for patient handling. As the UC Davis Health System in Sacramento discovered, the same concept can reduce injuries for other workers who must transfer heavy loads.
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It's a common disconnect: An employee at home, healing from an injury, feels increasingly distant from work. As time passes, the chance of that employee returning to work drops.
