The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 4, 2025

Mercer County Joint Township Community Hospital in Coldwater, Ohio, has suffered a significant data breach involving the electronic protected health information of up to 88,541 individuals. The post Mercer County Joint Township Community Hospital Cyberattack Affects Up to 88,500 Individuals appeared first on The HIPAA Journal.

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Scrubs

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Another study revealed that nurses wearing unconventional attire, such as colorful scrubs reduced anxiety among children in a hospital setting. In fast-paced, high-stress environments like hospitals, it’s vital that other healthcare professionals and patients are able to easily identify who’s who.

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Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Coding and clinical documentation have never been more important in healthcare. “We You’ll need ongoing training for your staff to improve your clinical documentation and avoid the following coding disasters. Undercoded Complex Hospital Admissions. The documentation and coding are appropriate on our end.

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Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Coding and clinical documentation have never been more important in healthcare. “We You’ll need ongoing training for your staff to improve your clinical documentation and avoid the following coding disasters. Undercoded Complex Hospital Admissions. The documentation and coding are appropriate on our end.

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Documentation Medical Coding Admissions Follow-Up 52

Practice Index

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

While the document sets out a vision for integrated, community-focused care, it provides little in the way of clear guidance for GP practices, leaving them uncertain about how they fit into the evolving system. The publication of the Neighbourhood Health Guidelines for 2025/26 has once again left general practice in the dark.

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NHA Now

MAY 13, 2020

Pharmacy technician employers can be grouped into four main categories: community pharmacies (retail pharmacies), specialty pharmacies, mail-order pharmacies and hospital pharmacies. However, the day-to-day tasks of a pharmacy technician in a hospital are unique to that environment. Train new technicians and research pharmacy staff.

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The Healthcare Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

And compared to most of the rest of the world, where surgical interventions by fee-for-service OB/GYNs and hospitals are not rewarded with more revenue, patients in the US need a rate reduction of 10 to 15 points, not three.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 28, 2025

Email accounts have been compromised at four HIPAA-regulated organizations: Alternate Solutions Health Network in Ohio; Park Royal Hospital in Florida; 90 Degree Benefits in Minnesota; and the Charleston Fire Department in West Virginia. Almost 107,000 individuals have been affected.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

JANUARY 20, 2025

Improving Access and Outcomes Using Success, Effort, Emotion, and Trust Metrics A nurse enters a hospital room for a routine blood draw. Hospitals with higher patient experience scores report a 161% better net margin than competitors with low scores. [1] She greets the patient, explains why she is there, and begins the task.

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Relias

APRIL 18, 2022

Providing consistent, evidence-based care and thorough documentation. Reducing the number of hospital- or facility-acquired pressure injuries, which are nonreimbursable. Avoiding penalties and legal risks that go along with inaccurate assessments, incomplete documentation, and preventable pressure injuries.

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Relias

JUNE 1, 2023

However, large technology investments aren’t always realistic in the near term when hospitals and health systems are struggling financially. 5 – Educate clinicians on required documentation Clinicians sometimes omit important documentation. Missing documentation can cause rework for revenue cycle staff.

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Documentation Admissions Follow-Up Scheduling 52

Relias

JUNE 1, 2023

However, large technology investments aren’t always realistic in the near term when hospitals and health systems are struggling financially. 5 – Educate clinicians on required documentation Clinicians sometimes omit important documentation. Missing documentation can cause rework for revenue cycle staff.

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Documentation Admissions Follow-Up Scheduling 52

Accepted Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Consider volunteering as well, especially at a hospital, clinic, or assisted living community. Most programs require an application and have posted due dates, so give yourself adequate time to complete and submit all required documentation. Work with Valerie! Schedule a free consultation today!

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 19, 2024

Immediate Access to Clinical Support Virtual nurses regularly assist with tasks that do not require physical proximity to the patient, such as patient-family education, completing admission and discharge tasks, and participating in two-person verification processes.

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Relias

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Long‐term acute care hospitals. Partial hospitalization programs. Short-term acute care hospitals. Critical access hospitals. Admission source. Your work may uncover specific care providers who may need additional education and training to improve documentation and reduce associated risk,” she said.

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Relias

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Bear in mind that your rating depends on accurate documentation of your initial assessment of the patient and in your Medicare claims for the care provided. Pay attention to your record on patients having urgent, unplanned emergency room visits or hospital readmissions within the first 60 days of care by your agency.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

Read more… Guam Memorial Hospital Authority Guam Memorial Hospital Authority, the operator of a public hospital in the U.S. OCR agreed to settle the alleged HIPAA violation, and Guam Memorial Hospital Authority agreed to pay a $25,000 financial penalty. The HIPAA violation case was settled with a $10,000 penalty.

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CareerStep

MAY 27, 2024

Institutional, or hospital pharmacy, involves less public interaction. Working in a hospital pharmacy may involve going on rounds with the doctor or medical students if the particular hospital does rounds, according to Jesie Davenport , CPhT, pharm tech academic lead, and instructor.

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The Healthcare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2024

That’s obviously impossible and it’s a complete fabrication that they do not support in their document with even a wisp of data. They use that false information, and they use a very skillful and intentional fake news context to attack the plans with that information.

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Accepted Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Show Summary Would you like to hear insight based on decades of experience, both advising applicants to a variety of healthcare programs and working in admissions offices for, again, many different healthcare programs? He discusses the admissions process for healthcare programs. Chuck, welcome to Admissions Straight Talk. [2:29]

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JULY 7, 2023

The Supreme Court issued a number of headline-grabbing decisions this term on topics like religious accommodation , LGBTQ protections , and consideration of race in college admissions. The decision may have benefited him, but the hospital never offered him anything at all. The hospital simply left things where they were.

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Transfers Hospital Documentation Communication 52

Arkenea

JULY 2, 2024

CDA The HL7 CDA (Clinical Document Architecture) is an XML-based standard that offers a structure or format for sharing clinical data such as progress notes, discharge summaries, and consultation notes. HL7 Messages are used to transfer healthcare data between disparate systems, each sending information about events such as patient admission.

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Documentation Follow-Up Discharges Clinical Operations 52

Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

PV1 – Patient Visit: Contains information about the patient’s hospital stay, referred physicians, and locations. Number 5- Implementation Guides Implementation guides include all implementation, supporting documents, and insightful guides useful for an existing standard.

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Transfers Discharges Communication Documentation 52

Relias

JANUARY 30, 2024

As they consider new ideas to raise patient satisfaction, healthcare leaders must have an understanding of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scoring system that evaluates these efforts. The data is then tabulated to create the HCAHPS score. The financial impact of HCAHPS scores can be significant.

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Patient Satisfaction Patient Experience Scheduling Hospital 52

Arkenea

MARCH 15, 2025

The HIMSS developed a multi-level framework to assist medical personnel in evaluating their data exchange and document management capacities. At this level, various software platforms and DMS (Document Management Systems) can securely communicate and transfer data with each other. Want to get your HealthTech project off the ground?

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Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

Additionally, favorable e-prescribing standards and rules published by the CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) are increasing the adoption of e-prescribing amongst hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies. This can result in fatalities and hospitalization of patients. Thereby, ensuring better patient health and outcome.

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Transfers Medical History HIPAA Follow-Up 52

MedAssistantEDU.org

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

with documented U.S. Candidates meeting at least one of the following eligibility criteria can apply for the certification- Must be a current student or recent graduate (in the past ten years) from a medical assistant program from a school authorized by the NCCT Must be a foreign physician or R.N.

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want to know how much of BU medical school’s recent $100 million gift it intends to use for scholarships, or what happens to applications to ensure a genuinely holistic process, or what its associate dean of admissions wants to see in students read on! Welcome to the 541st episode of Admissions Straight Talk.

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Relias

MAY 1, 2022

Carefully assessing on admission. Keeping accurate documentation. Because the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will not reimburse healthcare organizations for costs associated with hospital- or facility-acquired pressure injuries, appropriate assessment at the time of admission is vital.

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Documentation Admissions Acute Care Communication 98

Arkenea

JUNE 27, 2024

Reports say that medical errors are one of the leading causes of death, and electronic medical records leave little to no room for documentation errors. The rise in the adoption of EMR isn’t just limited to error-free documents or mandates. EMR adoption has surged significantly since the ARRA mandate was issued in 2014.

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Setting Sights

AUGUST 11, 2021

Yet, even when I was a medical student, working busy days on the wards and in clinics, with even the petty things still lingering from my past, the PTSD from my own hospital experiences, I thought it was all okay, because I spoke about it, and wrote about it openly, on different platforms. Now I realise that wasn’t, and isn’t , enough.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In emergency care settings, care coordination can involve immediate care, hospital admission, discharge planning, follow-up care, and post-acute care. It can help reduce unnecessary hospitalizations, readmissions, and ED visits and improve patient outcomes, satisfaction, and safety.

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Care Plan Patient Satisfaction Acute Care Collaboration 52

Practice Index

MARCH 31, 2024

With several documents related to the contract being released on Thursday (28th April) afternoon, we've taken a look at the contract updates to give you a head start on the requirements of the contract so you're up and running quickly.

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Relias

MARCH 13, 2023

For example, a new Hospital Price Transparency Rule came into effect in 2022. Unfortunately, many hospitals are struggling to implement the new standards promptly. Formerly, hospitals did not disclose the price of individual services to patients before they received care. Why are hospitals failing their audits?

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We Care Online

JANUARY 15, 2025

Health Unit Coordinators perform crucial administrative functions in hospitals, clinics, and healthcare facilities, freeing up medical staff to spend more time with patients. Managing admissions, transfers and discharges. Document and communicate with the healthcare team. Healthcare documentation. Communication skills.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 10, 2024

These descriptors are an essential resource that hospitals, medical practices, health plans, and other CPT users can incorporate into English-language documents, such as insurance forms, price sheets, medical records, patient portals, and more.

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The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Insurers Shift Strategy from Sharing Risk with Hospitals and Doctors to Markedly Implicating their Patients. After the 2008 recession, employers and their health plans shifted strategy from putting physicians and hospitals at risk through delegated risk capitation to putting patients at risk through higher patient cost sharing.

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