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A security consulting firm that is providing security risk assessment and compliance review services for small health care related businesses says one way to increase incentives for physicians to come into compliance with HIPAA requirements would be for malpractice insurers to offer reduced premiums to those who have done a risk assessment and are moving forward on implementation.
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One same-day surgery program offers a cruise. Another program offers one-on-one tours and talks. Although the approach is different, the goal is the same: Prepare children for their same-day surgery experience by explaining the unknown and making the whole experience less scary.
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Kids not only say the darndest things, as television personality Art Linkletter says, but they also ask some tough, specific questions when facing a day of same-day surgery.
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Making sure your patient satisfaction program is top-notch takes more than just sending out surveys, according to winners of a national patient satisfaction improvement award offered by Press Ganey Associates in South Bend, IN.
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To do your own comparative analysis to prepare for Joint Commission surveys, youll need to obtain risk-adjusted Medpar data, says Patti Muller Smith, RN, EdD, a consultant for Shawnee, OK-based Administrative Consulting Services.
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This is the second article in a two-part series on preventing employees from harming patients intentionally. This month, well give step-by-step instructions to prevent problem employees from being hired and tips to encourage staff to report concerns.
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A nonpunitive policy on investigating errors yields better results, especially if you couple it with an amnesty period that promises employees can confess their mistakes without threat of punishment, says Elaine Shaw, director of quality resources at Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, IN.
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Have you made your labor and delivery unit a veritable fortress with high-tech equipment and strict policies to prevent infant abductions, while leaving the back door wide open? Children in the pediatrics unit can be just as vulnerable as infants, experts say, but risk managers too often put all their focus on protecting the newborns while devoting relatively few resources to other young patients.
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The editors of the prestigious British medical journal Lancet recently issued a public statement acknowledging a failure to disclose conflict-of-interest concerns about a 1998 study they published connecting autism to childhood vaccines.
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New IRBs and new IRB members, as well as those who have been working in the field of human research protection for years, often have questions regarding the use of the exempt category when research protocols are reviewed.