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A SeaTac, WA, man pleaded guilty in federal court to wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information for economic gain.
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A thriving emergency department cash collection program is the latest manifestation of Marlton, NJ-based Virtua Healths use of an innovative quality assurance and process improvement strategy called Six Sigma.
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The Radio-Television News Directors Association says all journalists, and particularly those working for electronic media, have been hampered in their work by actual HIPAA privacy requirements and by interpretations of those requirements by some people and organizations.
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Hospitals no longer are required to collect Medicare Secondary Payey information where there is no face-to-face encounter with a beneficiary, thanks to a recent clarification by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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Eight common factors were identified as critical for success in improving patient flow in the nations emergency departments in a report from the Urgent Matters Learning Network, a national initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Its impossible to fully explain Marlton, NJ-based Virtua Healths emergency department (ED) cash collections project without discussing the multihospital health systems Six Sigma quality assurance program, officials there say.
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Increases in outsourcing, the merging of health care organizations, and changes in the consulting business may equal some new opportunities for qualified access management professionals.
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The term black belt, taken from the concepts of martial arts, describes an expertise level pertaining to Six Sigma.
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Thinking creatively, but not expensively, is the key to meeting HIPAA requirements with a limited budget, according to Maria Woods, vice president for compliance and regulatory affairs at Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers of New York, who spoke at the Ninth Annual HIPAA Summit in September.
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The discussion of call centers that began in the October Hospital Access Management continues this month with some follow-up questions posed by Gillian Cappiello, CHAM, senior director of access services and chief privacy officer for Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago on staff training, balancing call workload, and other issues.