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How often have you walked into a patient care area and been blasted by an array of television sets with the volume cranked up to 11? How about the lovely shade of beige wall paint that flows seamlessly into the lovely shade of beige floor tile? For your elderly patients who already are dealing with a number of physical and mental challenges, these are more than just annoyances. They can be real dangers, contributing to the already high likelihood of falls.
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That armchair in the common area might be more than just ugly. It might actually be contributing to falls if your elderly patients look at it and get dizzy from the pattern.
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A medication use history is an integral part of the hospital admission process, but errors in the history may result in failure to detect drug-related problems or lead to interrupted or inappropriate drug therapy during hospitalization, according to background information in the article.
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An elderly gentleman with a history of fainting presented to a hospital emergency department was admitted for observation and testing then discharged without a conclusive diagnosis or treatment plan.
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A patient received quinine sulfate when she should have gotten quinidine sulfate. The medication error resulted in her experiencing a multitude of medical aliments. She brought action against the provider who dispersed the wrong medication and was awarded $120,000 through a mandatory arbitration process.
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Palmetto Health employed a multifaceted approach to educating registrars when the Columbia, SC-based organization undertook an ambitious point-of-service (collection project in 2002.
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When the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center-Presbyterian in Philadelphia transformed its outpatient registration staff into three teams, each with a specific task, the benefits were apparent immediately, says the medical center's business administrator for patient access.
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Although few patients have taken advantage of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act privacy rule that allows them to amend their medical records, those numbers will increase dramatically as people gain confidence in owning their health care data, predicts a management consultant with the Dearborn, MI-based health information management division of ACS Health Care Solutions.
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When Palmetto Health in Columbia, SC, decided to launch a major point-of-service collection effort almost three years ago, commitment came from the top down, and preparation was extensive, says the director of admissions and registration.
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As this months Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security rule deadline arrives, overall compliance with the rule does not appear imminent, judging from a recent survey by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
