Remove Accountability Remove Doctors Remove Healthcare Remove Healthcare Quality
article thumbnail

Professional Development: The Overlooked Solution to Nurse Burnout & Turnover

HIT Consultant

Now is the time for healthcare organizations to look inward and not only seek to remedy these deficits by counteracting existing burnout but to also prevent new staffing challenges as the reverberations of COVID-19 continue to be felt.

Nursing 98
article thumbnail

[ANSWERED] Why Was HIPAA Created?

Etactics

Today, 61% of healthcare data breaches are due to negligent employees. Healthcare administration is hard enough as it is. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the federal law that helps protect your health information. Healthcare Before HIPAA Why Do We Need HIPAA? Conclusion What is HIPAA?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Newsletter, March 2024

Patient Safety Movement

” Joe Kiani, Founder Patient Safety Movement Foundation Letter from CEO In a world of multiple wars, starvation, poverty, and limited healthcare access, it is always uplifting to see a breakthrough in medical research. The loss of solar power may cause power outages in its path. Stay safe and stay well. Michael A.E.

article thumbnail

Newsletter, November 2023

Patient Safety Movement

An embarrassment for US healthcare is that we have the highest rate of maternal mortality and morbidity among high-income nations, especially among American Indian, Alaska Native, and Black mothers, those of lower socioeconomic status, and people younger than 18 years or older than 35 years.1

article thumbnail

Newsletter, September 2023

Patient Safety Movement

Beta Healthcare Symposium Joe Kiani also recently gave a keynote at Beta Healthcare Group’s 2023 Annual Member Symposium focused on “Strategies for Improving Patient & Employee Safety,” held in Dana Point, California. Through this year’s slogan “Elevate the voice of patients!”

article thumbnail

Did President Biden backtrack on his pledge for increased public access to Medicare data?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Some Medicare plans’ lack of transparency “deprives researchers and doctors of critical data to evaluate problems and trends in patient care,” said Xavier Becerra, the secretary of health and human services, in a statement.