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Health care organizations aware of their need for systemic change but short on the capital required increasingly are taking a two-pronged approach: Make some quick revenue-producing hits first, and then implement the longer-term solutions. Thats just one of the strategies in place at Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas.
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Implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy rule appears to be going surprisingly well, thanks to extensive planning and a public already used to being informed about privacy practices. Thats the consensus of a sampling of access managers who spoke with Hospital Access Management about their hospitals experience with the regulation.
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Access managers with responsibility for emergency department registration will want to be aware of the proposed new ED overcrowding standard from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations that could become effective in early 2004.
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This column runs occasionally in Hospital Access Management and addresses questions regarding the Emergency Medical Treatment
and Labor Act.
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OIGs EMTALA fines continue downward trend; HFMA issues status report on billing project; JCAHO hospital standards reduced to 225 from 508; Survey: Providers ready for October HIPAA deadline; Prompt-pay legislation signed by Texas governor; Hospitals doing good job, say majority of Americans
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After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, area hospitals all reported a deluge of volunteer clinicians. This may sound like good news when your facility is suddenly overwhelmed with patients, but it also can be dangerous.
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You already should know that Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations surveyors want to see compliance with restraint and seclusion standards. But to improve quality in this area, youll need to do more.
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Editors note: This column will be a regular feature in Hospital Peer Review profiling a facility that recently has been surveyed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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If youre looking for resources to help with quality improvement programs in your facility, access the new National Quality Measures Clearinghouse web site (www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov).
