Utilization review (UR) and case management are as traditional a team as peanut butter and jelly. But some facilities are asking whether this longtime duo is really the best combination.
When it comes to the scanning function, how does your facility compare to those of your peers? To help you answer that question, MRB focused its latest quarterly benchmarking survey on scanning productivity. We hope you'll find the results helpful. More than 200 survey respondents completed the 2012 survey, including:
HIPAA requires implementation of technical policies and procedures for electronic information systems that maintain electronic protected health information (ePHI) to allow access only to those persons or software programs that have been granted access rights [§164.312(a)] as specified in the administrative safeguards under access authorization, establishment, and modification [§164.308(a)(4)].
Navigating the new world of social media is challenging for many professions, but perhaps none more so than the medical profession, where physicians and other healthcare professionals must balance a tell-all online culture with the HIPAA Privacy Rule's mandate to protect patient privacy.
While I was on one of my first consulting engagements in the early 1980s-when the pundits were predicting that everyone would be fully on EMRs no later than 1990-I experienced a rude wake-up lesson: the automating dysfunction "reality check" factor.
