Preventive care is an essential component of rural health clinic services, but Medicare's coverage and billing rules for these services—including annual exams and vaccines—can be complicated to navigate.
The pediatric population is at high risk for medication errors in the emergency department, with medication error rates three times higher in pediatric patients than in adult patients, according to a study in Annals of Emergency Medicine.
More than half (56%) of the respondents to Ponemon Institute’s Fifth Annual Data Breach Preparedness Study reported experiencing an organizationwide breach. Of these respondents, 51% reported that their organization’s data response plan is not very effective.
