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How to customize HIPAA training
Whether you use an outside consultant or do it yourself, training staff in Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance should be customized to your own needs and situation.
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Case managers can join the fight against obesity epidemic
An alarming number of adults and children are obese, but the problem seems to be making slight declines as health plans and providers focus on preventing, rather than treating, the condition. -
Nurses support at-risk women through pregnancy, early childhood
Through the Nurse-Family Partnership at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, low-income women who are pregnant for the first time are getting support in their home throughout the pregnancy and until the child is two years old. -
Weight-loss program involves the entire family
When young, obese California Medicaid beneficiaries enroll in Health Net’s weight management program, a health coach involves the entire family in the program, called Fit Families for Life.
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CMS flu shot reporting raises thorny issue of vaccination status of hospital workers
Patients will soon be able to check the influenza vaccination rates of healthcare workers at the nation’s hospitals through Hospitalcompare.gov, a website of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). That specter of public reporting has helped spur the rising rates of flu vaccination in hospitals, but it will also reveal the continuing problem of tracking the vaccination status of doctors, advanced practice nurses and physician assistants who are not hospital employees. -
CDC forms Ebola response teams, drops expectation that all hospitals can care for patients
Faced with fear and brewing rebellion in the health carecommunity, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has dropped its stance that any U.S. hospital can take care of an Ebola patient in favor of rapid response teams. -
OSHA infectious disease rule moves forward
While a Dallas hospital struggled to care for the nations first Ebola case, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration quietly issued a draft of an infectious disease standard designed to protect health care workers. The proposed rule would make infection control measures mandatory and would add new requirements for hazard identification, exposure control, and documentation. -
How to lead a great meeting: the power of group interaction
You know how sometime you just have a great day? It seems like they dont come that often anymore, and the great is not as great, but still, it happens. -
Changes to quality reporting program announced
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized proposed quality measure OP-32 and ASC-12 Facility Seven-Day Risk-Standardized Hospital Visit Rate after Outpatient Colonoscopy, despite objections from the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) and others. -
Program focuses on safety around energy devices
The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) has launched the Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy (FUSE) program to educate surgeons and staff about the safe use of surgical energy-based devices in the OR, endoscopy suite, and other areas.