Hospital Access Management articles from March 2005

Hospital Access Management archives from March 2005

NC hospital uses Six Sigma initiative to train staff and target bad debt: patient financial services team approach gets great results.
March 1, 2005... Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston Salem, NC, joined the growing ranks of health care organizations implementing the innovative quality assurance and process improvement strategy--Six Sigma. Keith Weatherman, CAM,...

Does request for data meet the HIPAA test? Health care attorney offers guidelines.(Guest Column)(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996)
March 1, 2005... [Editor's note: The analyses and conclusions contained in this article are limited to review of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) privacy regulations. It is essential that state laws and regulations in your...

Arkansas hospital easily goes 'smoke free': months of planning paid off.
March 1, 2005... The campus of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center in Little Rock went "smoke free" last summer in a seamless transition that surprised and delighted access management. "We had thought it was going to be a...

Access managers discuss impact of concierge care: will fee-for-service system return?
March 1, 2005... Free for service is making a comeback, contends health care futurist Leland R. Kaiser, who predicts health care is destined to become the leading business in America. A growing number of physicians are treating patients who pay them monthly or...

HCA changes policies for discounting care.(Hospital Corp. of America Inc.)
March 1, 2005... Hospital Corp. of America Inc., (HCA) the nation's largest hospital company, said it has modified its policies on discounting patient care as of Jan. 1, 2005, based on recent guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). ...

'Framework' endorsed for health data exchange.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Thirteen health and information technology organizations have endorsed what they say is a "common framework" to support health information exchange in the United States while protecting privacy. The group presented David Brailer, MD, the...

On-line resources' role increasing for seniors.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... On-line resources soon may play a much larger role in informing the nation s seniors about their health and health care options, according to a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation. While less than a third of seniors (65 and older) have...

Standardization can save industry $77.8 billion.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... An analysis published recently on the Health Affairs web site (www.healthaffairs.org) estimates that standardizing electronic health care information exchange and creating interoperable information systems could save the nation's health care...

Hospital consolidation not effective, study shows.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... A study published recently in the journal Health Affairs examines the impact on certain performance measures when a hospital consolidates into a health system, based on a sample of hospital consolidations in four states. The study,...

Hospitals make the list of best places to work.
March 1, 2005... Several hospitals were named to Fortune magazine s 2005 list of "100 Best Companies To Work For," including Griffin Hospital in Derby, CT, which was ranked the eighth-best company and third-best small company to work for in the United States....