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Surveillance also tracks other injuries
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Ebola does not spread by the airborne route, but recently issued infection control recommendations recommend that health care workers don at the least N95 respirators if performing a procedure that may generate aerosols with the patients blood or body fluids.
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CDC issues guidelines for all hospitals
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Why do most workers call in sick?
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For the second year in a row, Humana ranked first in overall performance among 148 payers, according to the 2014 PayerView Report, an annual report from athenahealth in Watertown, MA.
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Two organizations will pay a combined $4.8 million to settle a case sparked by a breach of protected health information (PHI). The settlement is the largest ever for a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
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At Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, patient access managers interview 15 patients each month.
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Below is a description of the Go the Extra Mile (GEM) program used by the patient access department at Mercy Hospital Springfield (MO).
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Before a Patient Contact Center was implemented at Pittsburgh-based UPMC, providers accustomed to handling their own scheduling were skeptical, reports Karen Shaffer-Platt, vice president of patient concierge services/access in UPMCs Corporate Revenue Cycle department.
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An initial risk assessment will not enough when you undergo a desk audit, says Bruce D. Lamb, JD, a shareholder with the Gunster law firm in Tampa Bay, FL.