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Behavioral Healthcare Provider Settles HIPAA Risk Analysis Investigation for $225,000

The HIPAA Journal

Patient discharge forms could be accessed via the Internet without authorization. The discharge summaries were exposed online due to a coding error in a discontinued pilot program for an online patient portal. The discharge summaries of 35 patients were exposed online from at least December 2021 until May 19, 2023.

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Ascension Notifying Patients About Data Breach at Former Business Partner

The HIPAA Journal

Ascension learned on December 5, 2024, that the business partner had experienced a hacking incident. Ascension in St. Louis, Missouri, has started notifying certain patients about a security incident at one of its former business partners.

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Sleep: Watch This Space

The Healthcare Blog

But in 2012, neuroscientist Maiken Nedergaard, identified a unique network of delicate channels (tiny passages alongside blood vessels) inside the brain that collect and discharge brain metabolites and waste materials including amyloid. This system, or ultimate brainwasher as some labeled it, was formally titled the glymphatic system.

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Upcoming ICD-10 Code Changes for October 1, 2024: What You Need to Know 

Health Prime

These changes include 252 new codes, 36 deletions, and 13 revisions. These 2025 ICD-10-CM updates are to be used for discharges and patient encounters from October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2025. These changes will impact medical billing, coding practices, and healthcare administration.

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Rehumanizing the Patient Experience

Minority Nurse

We wait to be discharged. ” If you’re waiting to be discharged from the hospital, what time you’ll be able to leave is anyone’s guess since one hand often doesn’t know what the other hand is doing. We wait to see the provider. We’re stalled in the emergency room waiting area.

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All User Bulletin: Admission and Discharge Navigator Optimizations

Connect Care Bytes Blog

Enhancements to Core Admission and Discharge Navigators Connect Care uses "Navigators" to help prescribers complete complex workflows when key tasks are easy to forget. Core "Admission" and "Discharge" navigators organize review (e.g., discharge summary) steps that must be completed in a specific order.

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Countdown Checklist L9, T-minus 2: Catch Up Dictations

Connect Care Bytes Blog

Continuing a list of essential actions for Connect Care Launch 9 prescribers readying for launch November 2, 2024. Dictate any pre-launch admission or transfer notes Launch 9 inpatient facilities are supported for dictation of admission histories, transfer notes, consultation reports and discharge summaries.