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HICPAC invites your comments on revised isolation precautions guideline this fall

CDC

CDC’s evidence-based guidelines for health care are designed to protect healthcare workers and patients, encourage safe practices, improve health outcomes, and save lives. They are not regulations, but many regulatory bodies consider this advice when they create the rules that lead to penalties and payments for healthcare facilities.

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Telehealth heavy hitter Dr. Roy Schoenberg on virtual care in 2023

Healthcare It News

" Change must occur in partnership with medical boards that will continue to play an important role in enabling the safe practice of medicine. What's less clear, however, is who on Capitol Hill will be the one to say, "We have to find another way." Follow Bill's HIT coverage on LinkedIn: Bill Siwicki.

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Cybersecurity for the Clinician

Briggs Healthcare

use of work account on social media sites) Email management and security Emergency planning requirements and patient care absent access to the EHR Additional information about this partnership and links to the individual videos is available here.

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The Doctorate degree: Do I need it?

Pro CRNA

If you can pass your certification exam and safely practice anesthesia, you have the intelligence to earn a doctorate degree. Are you smart enough? All that is required is time, money, intellectual curiosity, and the tenacity to see the endeavor through to completion.

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Information Security Program Lifecycle: An Ultimate Guide

Etactics

Employees must understand the policies and procedures to cultivate safe practices against various threats. Step 3: Operation The operation stage involves putting the procedures and security measures into practice. Users are often the weakest security link. As well as installation of the necessary software and hardware.

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To Follow or Not: The Rules About Patient Safety

Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

In truth, safety begins and ends with everyone throughout the community taking action and modeling safe practices. And, communicable diseases identified at the hospital should stay in the hospital. When MRSA was identified, hand-washing cloths to wipe off shopping carts suddenly appeared in supermarkets. Does everyone use them?

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Newsletter, July 2023

Patient Safety Movement

How did airlines become so safe? It was by putting in safe practices, such as pre-flight checklists and asking the team to speak up if they perceive a problem and report “near misses” without fear of retribution. It was not by telling the pilots not to crash!