Compliance & Legal
As social media sites gain in popularity in healthcare settings, there are several potential legal issues to be aware of says a new white paper by Internet solutions firm Actiance.
This past March, Texas Children's Hospital in Houston opened its Texas Children's Hospital Pavilion for Women after recently expanding a new West Campus in an effort to meet growing needs and a shift in population base. And with this growth came an excellent opportunity to streamline the system's supply chain.
Last week, Kimberly-Clark Health Care announced the four recipients of the second-annual HAI WATCHDOG Awards, created to recognize the efforts of healthcare professionals working together to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
During testimony last week at the Oversight Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee hearing, Irving, Texas-based VHA Inc., said that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Schedule H amendment, which regulates reporting for tax-exempt organizations, has overly burdensome requirements for non-profit hospitals.
The American Medical Association has called on CMS to extend the ICD-10 deadline two years.
With incidents of data breaches on the rise in recent years, cyber insurance is growing in popularity as a way of mitigating risk.
Abbott Laboratories, a global healthcare company, has agreed to pay $1.6 billion to settle allegations that it improperly marketed its neurological drug, Depakote, for off-label uses.
Across the nation, healthcare organizations are discovering that collaborative care transcends the medical discipline. Patients often experience “upstream” legal problems that can later adversely affect their health. That’s why there’s a dramatic increase in the number of medical-legal partnerships (MLPs), where legal professionals work closely with providers to identify and resolve these issues.
HHS settles with an Arizona physicians' practice for $100,000 over their failure to adequately protect patient health records.
A proposed rule that would establish a unique health plan identifier under HIPAA and would implement several administrative simplification provisions of the Affordable Care Act was announced Monday by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).