During the January injections and infusions audio conference, Jugna Shah, MPH, president and founder of Nimitt Consulting in Washington, D.C., and Valerie A. Rinkle, MPA, associate director with Navigant Consulting in Seattle, reviewed these scenarios.
Every healthcare organization should develop and implement a policy and a well-defined process that provides guidance for managing incident and breach response.
Editor's note: With the increased specificity required for ICD-10-CM coding, coders need a solid foundation in anatomy and physiology. To help coders prepare for the upcoming transition, we will provide an occasional article about specific anatomical locations and body parts as part of a larger series for ICD-10-CM preparation.
Medical identity theft is on the rise and healthcare organizations need to ensure they are authenticating a patient's identity before providing medical services and products.
If you're looking to reduce your readmissions-and let's face it, who isn't these days?-it may be time to take some tips from organizations that have had success.
