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HHS Proposes Tighter HIPAA Privacy Rule
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a proposed rule to modify the HIPAA privacy, security, and enforcement rules, extending HIPAA compliance requirements to subcontractors of business associates, and strengthening patient rights to health information privacy. According to the Office for Civil Rights, which enforces the HIPAA privacy and security rules for HHS, the proposed 'significant' modifications include a requirement that BAs of HIPAA-covered entities be under most of the same rules as the covered entities, new expansion of individuals' rights to access their information and to restrict certain types of disclosures of PHI to health plans.
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Telemedicine Trialed for Obstetric Consultations
A $1.8 million, three-year pilot project headed by The BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Health Foundation will seek to determine whether telemedicine technology could provide effective perinatal consulting services to women who have high-risk pregnancies and live in rural areas of Eastern Tennessee. Maternal fetal medicine specialists and healthcare professionals at Regional Obstetric Consultants of Chattanooga and Knoxville already offer care to women with high-risk pregnancies. However, women living in the valleys and mountains of Eastern Tennessee who had long ways to travel would often miss appointments, resulting in increased health-related problems in both mother and child.
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St. Rose Dominican Hospitals to post data on quality
In response to a Las Vegas Sun investigation of hospital care, St. Rose Dominican Hospitals officials have pledged to make public their internal quality measures? and challenged other local hospitals to do the same. The Sun investigation, based on hospital billing data on file with the state, identified 969 instances in 2008 and 2009 in which patients suffered preventable injuries, infections or other harm in Las Vegas hospitals. St. Rose CEO Rod Davis has pledged to share with the Sun and post on his hospitals? Website cases of preventable harm that occur at the three St. Rose Dominican Hospitals. St. Rose will also publicize sentinel events it reports to the state. No facility in the state has ever made this data public.[Read More]
Government report raises questions about CT scans at Illinois hospitals
Administrators at Edward Hospital were surprised by government data that their doctors were ordering double CT scans?one using injected dye, one without?at far higher rates than other hospitals in Chicago and across the nation. In the process, patients were getting large doses of radiation. The hospital launched an investigation, and physicians began to focus on curbing use of the scans. This is just what the government hopes will happen as it publishes more information on the quality of health care in the US, including just-released, first-of-its-kind data about medical imaging. The data release is part of an ongoing effort to shine a spotlight on how well hospitals follow guidelines for care, meet patients' needs, and end up saving lives.[Read More]
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Tech Headlines
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Estranged from family, doctor snoops in records
Minneapolis Star-Tribune, July 13, 2010
Outpatient, Readmission Data Added to Hospital Compare Site
HealthLeaders Media, July 9, 2010
Some doctors join Facebook, Twitter; others wary
USA Today, July 7, 2010
Medical records go online, but at what cost to privacy?
Miami Herald, July 6, 2010
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Creating Stroke Systems of CareIf U.S. healthcare is headed toward a model that eliminates fragmentation and emphasizes continuity and cooperation, stroke care may be leading the way and making a difference in patients' lives. [Read More]
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IT Forum
Medical Device Makers: Stop Griping and Embrace Healthcare Reform: During the national healthcare reform debate, many in the medical device industry strenuously objected to contributing their "fair share" to reform through a new tax on their devices. While other healthcare stakeholders accepted the notion of shared sacrifice and agreed to give up collective hundreds of billions of dollars, device companies warned that a new tax would force them to pass on the additional cost to hospitals and patients. And the protests haven't stopped. [Read More] |
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Tech to Boost Satisfaction and Patient Flow: Are long wait times in the ER hurting the patient experience at your organization? Denice Soyring Higman, RN, president and founder of Soyring Consulting in St. Petersburg, FL, discusses how hospitals can dramatically boost patient satisfaction scores with simple patient flow changes and by using clinical data to improve efficiency and productivity in the ER. [Listen Now] |
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