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Health department Medicaid breach impacts 228,000
In the latest chapter of compromised beneficiary information, a South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) employee sent personal data for more than 228,000 Medicaid recipients
Nonteaching hospitals think they're better at teamwork, handoffs
Nonteaching hospitals on average scored higher than academic medical centers for teamwork and patient handoffs, according to the latest patient safety survey from the Agency for Healthcare Research
Get a prescription online without ever seeing a doc
A recent article in Forbes reports how patients in Britain are able to go to least a dozen websites for online consultations with doctors they've never met and have physicians prescribe medications.
High-risk insurance pools will cost eight times more than forecasted, expert predicts
The federal government's $5 billion plan for creating state-based high-risk insurance pools for uninsured patients could cost five times that amount, according to one healthcare analyst's
Docs seek medical liability protections, state by state
With national tort reform still on the back burner, physicians are mounting state-based efforts to achieve tort reforms, with a key focus on enacting, maintaining or lowering noneconomic damage caps,
SPOTLIGHT: HHS to study Medicare PHR usage
Well, unlike many IT vendors (not to mention countless publications), at least HHS can admit that it doesn't know enough about personal health records to draw conclusions. "We know very little about
Medicare launching PHR pilot in AZ, UT
Following up on an existing pilot in South Carolina, Medicare has launched a personal health record pilot in Arizona and Utah giving beneficiaries access to a no-cost or subscription-based PHR.
ALSO NOTED: FL medical records sold in Utah surplus store; Another retail clinic operator closes its doors; and much more...
> Big "oops!"...Somehow, a box of medical records from Florida got sold in a Utah surplus store this week.
