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Two resources that address the security rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) are available on the Internet.
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The two new items added to the 2006 National Patient Safety Goals were ones that received the highest marks in the first-ever field review of proposed patient safety goals for outpatient surgery programs.
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Meeting the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations standard for competency assessment of staff was a problem for 14% of ambulatory care organizations and 15% of office-based surgery organizations surveyed in 2004, according to Joint Commission statistics.
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Employees who are injured or ill return to work full time more quickly and experience a shorter period of disability when the health care components and disability components of an insurance company work together, a CIGNA study of 60,000 short-term disability claims has shown.
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Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey is taking physician pay for performance to a new level, embarking on a plan to pay a higher standard fee to specialists who outperform their peers.
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Gaps in the system are costing you money: the injury that isnt reported right away; the employee who doesnt keep a doctors appointment; and the supervisor who doesnt make an effort to find a position for an employee with temporary restrictions.
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At CIGNA, disability nurse case managers often partner with nurse case managers from the health care side of the company to facilitate getting an injured worker back on the job.
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Suspecting that a colleague might be impaired by drugs or alcohol is difficult; knowing what to do with those suspicions is even harder.
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Quality improvement organizations (QIOs) have gone a long way toward erasing the previously adversarial and punitive roles of their predecessors, the peer review organizations, according to a new study in the bimonthly journal Health Services Research.
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