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The question of whether America's hospitals provide the same level of care regardless of a patient's race, ethnicity or language is being addressed in an initiative by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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The Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) says it supports development of interoperable electronic personal health records (ePHR) that are interactive and use a common data set of electronic health information and e-health tools.
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A "near-miss" in which a nurse at a Pennsylvania hospital incorrectly placed a "do not resuscitate" (DNR) wristband on a patient has prompted an Ohio initiative aimed at implementing statewide standardization of colored wristbands.
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After 22 years as director of patient financial services at Watauga Medical Center in Boone, NC, John D. Cook Jr. reached the point where he had "no drive, no energy, and no motivation."
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Federal regulators continue to make it clear that they are serious about patients' right to freedom of choice of providers, says Elizabeth E. Hogue, Esq., a Burtonsville, MD-based attorney specializing in health care issues.
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High-level positions with "revenue cycle" in the title are generating buzz in the health care access management field, and that trend won't be slowing down any time soon, industry sources tell Hospital Access Management.
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Does the HIPAA privacy rule need to be revised to meet the needs of the current changing health care environment involving health information exchange?
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The American Hospital Association says the multiplicity of privacy rules from local, state, and federal governments, accrediting bodies, and other organizations makes compliance difficult and can interfere with patient care.
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In a move that runs counter to national public health guidelines and may contribute to the rise of drug-resistant pathogens, Pennsylvania has passed a state law that could lead to routinely culturing a wide variety of health care workers for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs).
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Noting that a national spike in norovirus outbreaks likely represents an underestimate, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is setting up a national surveillance system as the bane of cruise ships moves aggressively into hospitals and long-term care settings.
