Advancing Excellence now embraces nurses in policy
By
Tim Mullaney
Aug 01, 2014
Nurses’ efforts to be leaders in a national effort to improve long-term care showed how they can attain greater influence over healthcare policy, according to an article recently published in Geriatric...
ONE DAY TO GO: McKnight’s Online Expo to start Wednesday as Senate debates healthcare fixes
Mar 23, 2010
Now that the House has passed a healthcare reform bill, long-term care leaders are again turning their sights to the Senate. That chamber is expected to begin debating changes to the healthcare reform...
Ten senators offer healthcare reform ideas to president
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Haymarket Media
Feb 23, 2007
A bipartisan group of senators has approached President Bush about working together on healthcare reform. They also offered some principals of reform, including ensuring private health coverage for all...
I couldn’t live without… Caremerge Chronic Care App
Dec 04, 2015
When Ken Giacobbo’s New Jersey practice, HomeVisits Physicians, went looking for a chronic care management tool, it was difficult. Discovering and using the Caremerge Chronic Care Management app...
Providers to sound off about CMS survey and certification process
Apr 30, 2010
Nursing home operators have a golden opportunity to let federal regulators know their feelings on new healthcare reform provisions that will take effect soon. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
Provider education efforts on improper billing need improvement, GAO says
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Apr 12, 2017
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has missed out on opportunities to improve provider education as a way to combat improper Medicare payments, a government watchdog reported on Monday.
Health system to pay $5.55 million in largest ever HIPAA settlement
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Aug 08, 2016
A major Illinois healthcare system will pay $5.55 million to settle allegations of HIPAA noncompliance, marking the largest settlement to date against a single entity, officials said.
White House to release its version of healthcare reform
Feb 22, 2010
The White House today is expected to release its own version of a healthcare reform bill in advance of a healthcare summit to be held Thursday.
Standards directory for healthcare information technology released
By
Haymarket Media
Apr 01, 2004
Providers could soon have a critical new tool in the quest to unify information technology standards to cut down on errors and increase efficiencies. Various IT systems currently hamper interoperability...
Ask the treatment expert … about wound cultures
By
Rosalyn Jordan, RN, BSN, MSc, CWOCN, WCC
Dec 01, 2013
Are wound cultures the best method to determine if a wound is infected?