Risk Management
The definition of harm as it relates to data breaches has been placed front-and-center in legal cases this year.
AHA says $1.1 billion from that total goes to support violence prevention and preparedness programs.
Preparation, collaboration and regular disaster drills within trauma systems will save lives, surgeons said.
The announcement comes a little more than a week after Texas-based healthcare giant announced sale of MacNeal Hospital in Chicago.
Kaiser Permanente's Santa Rosa hospital remained closed with local reports citing smoke damage.
Physicians can play a bigger role by talking to patients about guns in the home, safe removal and storage.
While most payers are implementing or are planning to launch blockchain projects by 2019, providers are still waiting to see how federal regulations unfold.
Doctors need to carefully and properly use the HCC codes, which indicate the expected costs for a patient.
The data showed infants with major birth defects accounted for less than 6 percent of the premature births, but a quarter of expenditures.
The canceling of elective procedures and the closing of various outpatient centers will have an immediate revenue impact.