HIT Consultant

JULY 27, 2023

Felicia Sadler, MJ, BSN, RN, CPHQ, LSSBB, VP of Quality at Relias Despite the recent end to the COVID-19 global public health emergency, its effects linger. This includes nurse and clinician shortages, which persist across hospitals and health systems nationwide. Engage your clinical workforce Ask nurses for their input.

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Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Four out of five of these pregnancy deaths were considered preventable.2,3 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Four in 5 Pregnancy-Related Deaths in the U.S. Are Preventable.”, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2023. 2,3 We must improve access to good maternity care. Michael A.E. Blanchi, D.W.,

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Etactics

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the federal law that helps protect your health information. The main goal for the HIPAA Privacy Rule (December 20, 2000) is to protect health information without infringing upon providing quality healthcare. To improve healthcare quality in the United States.

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Icanotes

JANUARY 5, 2024

Recently, the National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) attempted to replace its prevention helpline with Tessa, an AI chatbot designed to aid people struggling with eating disorders. Do therapist AI tools consistently adhere to HIPAA and other healthcare quality and privacy standards? Here's another example.

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Health Dialog

JANUARY 14, 2020

Health Dialog recently earned URAC’s Health Call Center Accreditation for our nurse line and health coaching services—and along the way, we learned what it takes to meet the quality standards that URAC expects. They offer accreditations in different areas of the healthcare industry, including for health call centers.

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Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

More than 40 percent of these events are due to preventable errors. The PCAST report also draws attention to the fact that medical errors and patient injuries persist at alarmingly high rates despite ongoing efforts to improve quality care on the part of practitioners and their organizations. In Health, Michael A.E.

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