Articles Tagged With: data
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Hospital Leaders Asking Questions About ‘Value’ of Clinical Ethics to Organization
Administrators expect to see evidence that a clinical ethical program is worth supporting with financial resources. Yet many ethicists are unprepared for this kind of conversation, one that requires data for an effective response.
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Tips for Introducing a New Data System With the Fewest Problems
Any data system can affect a wide range of hospital operations, interacting with and possibly hindering the operation of other systems, as well as clinical and business operations. Those far-reaching effects can be underestimated, giving hospital leaders a false sense of the scope of the project they are undertaking. Successful implementation begins with hospital leaders identifying an accurate perspective on the work ahead.
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Expect More High-Tech Breaches, Attorney General Audits This Year
Most HIPAA breaches in the past were of a low-tech nature. But that is changing now, partly because the digital revolution has completely changed how healthcare organizations handle data.
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Data-Sharing Initiative Targets U.S. Drug Overdose Crisis
Public-private partnership aims to strengthen multigovernmental coordination on prevention efforts.
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Wearable Technology Reinforces Case Management Teaching, Provides Data
Case management can extend its reach through wearable technology that tracks a patient’s exercise level, sleeping habits, vital signs, medication use, injuries, gait, and other data.
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Protect Subpoenaed Data from Routine Deletions
Responding to a subpoena can require a risk manager’s oversight of many functions in a healthcare organization, and one area is easy to overlook: the scheduled deletions of data from the computer system that happen in nearly every hospital and health system.
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Largest Data Breach of 2016 Hits Banner Health
The largest data breach so far in 2016 happened recently when hackers obtained information on 3.7 million patients and others from the computer servers of Banner Health, based in Phoenix.
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Oregon Targets Data Overload, Develops Strategies
It’s one of the most common complaints among healthcare quality professionals: There are so many metrics and so much data to compile. How can we ever keep up?
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Be Ready for Challenges to Data Reliability
Data transparency is one of the most effective mechanisms for incentivizing physician behavior change, but one of the first reactions to unveiling physicians’ performance among their peers usually is to question the validity and source of the data, says Kelly Tiberio, manager of GE Healthcare Camden Group, a consulting company based in Los Angeles.
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CMS Releases ASC Quality Data
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released comprehensive ASC quality data reports from its Ambulatory Surgery Center Quality Reporting Program, according to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association.