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A web page for registration training and support for Aurora Health Cares metro region is providing a wealth of information for access personnel and drawing praise not just from the Milwaukee-based facilities it targets, but throughout the Aurora network.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will use a complaint-driven process to enforce the transactions and code sets provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act after the Oct. 16 implementation deadline, and will focus on using voluntary compliance.
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Physician practices considering going back to paper claims as a way of coping with the Oct. 16 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services deadline for transactions and code sets should resist the temptation, according to John Thomas, CEO of Dallas-based MedSynergies.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the National Committee for Quality Assurance have started a new Privacy Certification Program for Business Associates to assess whether organizations designated as business associates under HIPAA are meeting essential requirements for safeguarding personally identifiable health information.
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Confusion in research circles over privacy requirements under HIPAA is seen in a flap at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, which sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services asking whether it could request patients permission to use their medical records for research.
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Reports of a surgeon inserting a screwdriver in a patients spine and another whose license was revoked after his state board for professional medical conduct said his continued practice would put patients in imminent danger have made outpatient surgery managers sit up and pay new attention to credentialing.
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Now is a good time to do a reality check and refocus on the priorities in your surgical department.
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The culture of safety that is promoted throughout the same-day surgery program as well as other departments at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, VA, is most evident in the monthly environment-of-care rounds.
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The 2004 Patient Safety Goals of the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations include all of the 2003 goals along with a new goal that focuses on the reduction of the risk of health care-acquired infections.
