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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should define and implement an overall privacy approach identifying milestones for integrating the outcomes of its initiatives.
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Baylor Health Care has implemented an enterprise master patient index (EMPI) that will allow patients at a dozen hospitals scattered over four counties to be registered more easily and with greater assurance of accurate identification.
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Like many health care providers across the country, Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth is struggling with the challenge of ensuring accurate identification of patients.
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What began as an automated telephonic tool to streamline the precertification process at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock has expanded into a multi-faceted system.
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A "discharge by appointment" initiative at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Towson, MD, has had some success, but is being challenged by physician delays and families who aren't arriving on time.
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Nine years ago, when Kristen Stiles became director of admissions at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth, an access employee who stayed in the job for three months was considered long term.
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A 2003 Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulation that interpreted EMTALA not to apply to inpatients does not have the "force and effect of law," according to a recent decision by a U.S. District Court in Puerto Rico.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recognizes that transactions often require the participation of two covered entities.
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Hospice evolved from the need to provide medical and social support to terminally ill patients in the last weeks of their lives. But while the benefits hospice can provide have expanded, the perception that hospice is where patients go to die has, until recently, stayed the same.
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For a doctor, telling a patient or patient's family that a medical error has happened in the course of his or her care is hard enough. But what if the error was committed by another provider?
