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When a past employee left your organization under questionable circumstances, or with a history of suspicious behavior, it is important to be honest with the next employer who asks for a referral.
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When asked about attitudes toward when and how to disclose, the gap between risk managers and physicians becomes more apparent...
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Many hospitals outside the area directly affected by Hurricane Katrina had difficulty sending in teams of clinicians because of concerns about liability, ...
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With so many patients evacuated and arriving at other facilities for care after Hurricane Katrina, one of the first questions posed to health care providers was how to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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In the midst of Hurricane Katrina, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a special alert advising health care workers that were allowed to share protected patient information to provide necessary medical care.
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A man was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his left kidney. After determining that the diseased kidney needed to be removed, an embolization procedure was scheduled to minimize bleeding during the surgery.
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It is reasonably settled that from a legal and/or ethical viewpoint that a competent patient has the right to direct his or her own medical care in any scenario. However, when the patient who is receiving medical care is no longer legally competent or never was legally competent to undertake medical decisions, the legal and ethical waters become murky.
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At Fairview Hospital, a small critical access facility in Great Barrington, MA, a decision was made in spring 2005 to switch to an integrated system for performance measurement and improvement.
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At Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown, PA, patient-centered collaboration between the case management department and other areas, such as quality, nursing, inpatient and outpatient providers, the residency program, and the legal and finance departments, has had a dramatic impact on quality.
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With the growing emphasis on pay for performance initiatives, quality professionals are seeing their roles change very quickly.
