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Health care giant Kaiser Permanente is introducing the idea of a "preoperative safety briefing" to all of its facilities with the aim of encouraging more communication among surgical team members.
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The emergency department can be an especially difficult place to balance the need for security of patient records with easy access for physicians and staff, but one hospital in Chesterfield, MO, is finding that a high-tech solution can do the job.
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The Department of Health and Human Services published the final enforcement rule for all HIPAA Administrative Simplification rules with an effective date of March 16, 2006.
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The Ohio Supreme Court says the state's open records law takes precedence over HIPAA privacy requirements.
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An intensive one-on-one case management program helps people with AIDS stay adherent to their medication regime, avoid hospitalizations and emergency department visits, and learn to self-manage their disease.
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Anyone who works in retail knows that customer satisfaction is the key to repeat business, leading to a more successful financial future.
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People who choose home health care as their profession are caring, people-oriented professionals, but home health managers should not assume that being caring and friendly always results in the best customer service, say experts.
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In creating the public policy platform that will guide its efforts through 2006, the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) includes priorities that reflect the changing role of occupational and environmental health nurses and the changing world in which they work.
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If youre managing the care of a patient who has a comorbidity of HIV or AIDS, keep in mind that the patient is likely to have issues that other patients with the same condition do not.
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When the state of New Jersey mandated that health plans establish a case management program for their publicly insured members with HIV-AIDS, Horizon-NJ health plan went a step further and put a nurse who is experienced in HIV case management in the position.
