Healthcare Law Insights blog

JULY 7, 2023

The Supreme Court issued a number of headline-grabbing decisions this term on topics like religious accommodation , LGBTQ protections , and consideration of race in college admissions. First, the court agreed that “remuneration” under the AKS covers just payment and other transfers of value, not any act that may be valuable to another.

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Accepted Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Show Summary In this episode of Admissions Straight Talk, host Linda Abraham interviews Dr. Jeffrey SooHoo, Assistant Dean for Admissions at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. SooHoo emphasizes the competitive nature of medical school admissions and the holistic review process used to evaluate applicants.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

Additionally, favorable e-prescribing standards and rules published by the CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) are increasing the adoption of e-prescribing amongst hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies. This can result in fatalities and hospitalization of patients. Thereby, ensuring better patient health and outcome.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

HL7 steps in as the ideal solution, useful for transferring electronic data across two or more healthcare systems. PV1 – Patient Visit: Contains information about the patient’s hospital stay, referred physicians, and locations. ORU transfers surplus data efficiently between systems, thus maintaining continuity in care.

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Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

I had collapsed into a heap on the cold, hospital floor, falling unconscious and suffering a seizure. I tried to make out the quivering outline of another hospital bed opposite me. Age 23, I went through another long eight weeks of my life confined to a hospital bed, all hope at loose end. For God’s sake , get UP !”

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Arkenea

JULY 2, 2024

One of the uses of FHIR: In 2021, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center inducted FHIR to increase interoperability across the organization, with an aim to connect hospital-based EHR with ambulatory EHR systems. HL7 vs. FHIR 1. Tackling Security Concerns Hackers can exploit the MLLP (Minimum Lower Layer Protocol).

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Accepted Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

Its Director of Admissions, Dr. Mike Woodson, is our guest today, and he’ll tell you what it takes to get in. Show Notes Welcome to the 569th episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Accepted’s med school admissions quiz can give you a quick reality check. In 2019, he became the Director of Admissions.

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want to know how much of BU medical school’s recent $100 million gift it intends to use for scholarships, or what happens to applications to ensure a genuinely holistic process, or what its associate dean of admissions wants to see in students read on! Welcome to the 541st episode of Admissions Straight Talk.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

  I usually see people who die alone in the hospital. There have been previous admissions after which the patient did not make it to follow-up appointments. Some of these patients die alone in the hospital, with nobody at their bedside. Others are transferred to inpatient hospice centers.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

JULY 12, 2024

Case Facts Dr P was a pulmonologist who had a practice and was affiliated with a large hospital. Mr C’s primary care physician had Mr C admitted to the hospital where Dr P practiced. After admission to the hospital, Mr C was treated with antibiotics for community-acquired pneumonia.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The nurse in the Medical-Surgical Unit suspects worsening respiratory distress, noticing that Mr. Salzo has become increasingly anxious and is moving about restlessly in bed during the admission assessment. Conclusion Mr. Salzo, transferred to an oncology unit, begins cancer treatment.

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Setting Sights

AUGUST 11, 2021

Yet, even when I was a medical student, working busy days on the wards and in clinics, with even the petty things still lingering from my past, the PTSD from my own hospital experiences, I thought it was all okay, because I spoke about it, and wrote about it openly, on different platforms. Now I realise that wasn’t, and isn’t , enough.

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Setting Sights

MAY 2, 2022

Hospital staff dressed head to toe in hazard suits, masks and gloves, hovered outside the Emergency Department, where lines of fluorescent ‘Do Not Enter’ tape fluttered in the icy wind outside the door. That was the last time I saw the hospital, where I lived and learnt as a medical student, for a very long time.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The solution built a QR code embedded with the patient’s full data (clinical, social determinants, and other relevant bits of information to complete the patient’s profile) with a designated caregiver at both ends of the transfer — from the originating site to the admission site.

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We Care Online

JANUARY 15, 2025

Health Unit Coordinators perform crucial administrative functions in hospitals, clinics, and healthcare facilities, freeing up medical staff to spend more time with patients. Managing admissions, transfers and discharges. Common tasks include: Managing patient records. Arranging appointments for tests and procedures.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Dictate any pre-launch admission or transfer notes Launch 9 inpatient facilities are supported for dictation of admission histories, transfer notes, consultation reports and discharge summaries. The same applies for Consults performed in the coming week for patients expected to still be in-hospital post-launch.

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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) also published an interoperability rule in March 2020 that applies to Medicare- and Medicaid-participating short-term acute care hospitals, long-term care hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, children’s hospitals, cancer hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs).

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