This week's note from the instructor looks at a few issues pertaining to rural health clinics that remain unsolved either due to conflicting or lacking guidance from CMS.
Clinical researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, developed and tested a modified version of the Team Strategies and Tips to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety debriefing tool in a multidisciplinary urban emergency department (ED). They found that the tool was helpful in identifying safety threats and opportunities for performance improvement.
A recent HIPAA breach that involved transmission of PHI to only one party—a reporter—nonetheless cost a Connecticut practice $125,000, in part because the practice didn’t take simple precautions.
Vitagene Inc. stored data such as consumers' email addresses, dates of birth, and gene-based health information on a publicly accessible cloud-based database.
This week's note from the instructor looks at a few issues pertaining to rural health clinics that remain unsolved either due to conflicting or lacking guidance from CMS.
This week’s Medicare updates include the CY 2020 Home Health Prospective Payment System proposed rule, a series of OIG reports on hospice deficiencies, the new interest rate for Medicare overpayments and underpayments, and more!
