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The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) has asked Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson to provide guidance in light of the fact that a substantial number of covered entities will not be able to achieve compliance with HIPAA Transaction and Code Set (TCS) standards by Oct. 16, 2003, as required under the Administrative Simplification Compliance Act.
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Companies seek URAC security accreditation; HIPAA.ICC.NET started to facilitate transmission
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A 42-year-old woman was involuntarily transferred from a community hospital to psychiatric facility after her attempted suicide. At the receiving facility, she was placed in an all-male ward, where she said she was sexually assaulted. A jury returned a verdict of $150,000, that was offset by her contributory negligence.
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In tight economic times, injury prevention is an economic necessity. Consider this: Medical costs for workers compensation claims involving lost time from work rose by 12% in 2002. Payment for lost wages rose by 7%, according to the Insurance Information Institute.
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Ergonomist Laurie Wolf, MS, CPE, spent years teaching client companies how to reduce their workers compensation claims by implementing ergonomic interventions. But when her own employer, BJC Health Care in St. Louis, encountered claims of more than $4 million, she realized that she needed to turn her attention close to home.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is hanging tough on enforcement of safer needle devices, with a new information bulletin that clearly restates its prohibition against reuse of blood tube holders.
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Smallpox preparedness needs to take a broader focus, with a registry of health care workers and others who have been previously vaccinated, an Institute of Medicine (IOM) panel has advised.1
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Been there; done that; got stuck. Sometimes the most convincing argument for using safer needles comes from someone who didnt.
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Figuring out how to save money is a lot easier than actually doing it. That is the lesson that Delynn Lamott, RN, MS, COHN-S, learned when she went to work for a small community hospital in Michigan.
