With prescription drug abuse becoming increasingly problematic, organizations across the country have been attempting to develop programs that increase the safety and efficiency with which medication is prescribed.
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The Joint Survey of Physician Digital Behavior found that 84% of doctors who participated in the survey, across a variety of specialties, would prefer continuing medical education training to be conducted
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Because many medical practices have been slow to transition information from hard-to-manipulate paper documents into electronic medical records software, those that are pioneering technology are at a unique advantage.
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The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services released a revised draft of the National Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections: Roadmap to Elimination last week. The plan posits an
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With major advances in medical technology such as electronic medical, electronic billing and esprescribing software, facility managers today are in the unique position to utilize huge, awkward data sets being generated across an organization for competitive edge.
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Two more data breaches were revealed this week, one in South Carolina and one in Georgia, with the latter involving patients’ protected health information (PHI). Well over a million records
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With many citizens of the country likely engaged in medical assistance and consultation that they do not want publicized, organizations like HHS step in to present sanctions when this basic right to privacy is violated.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this week that Arizona-based Phoenix Cardiac Surgery, P.C. has agreed to pay a $100,000 settlement and implement corrective actions to
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Many medical industry experts are recommending that facility managers be more strategic in the initiatives their practice pursues.
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The Top 100 Hospitals according to Thomson Reuters have been found to be more fully utilizing Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems, as determined by HIMSS Analytics. There is a higher
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