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Cardiogenic Shock Team Halves Diagnosis Time at Texas Specialty Hospital

Daily Nurse

This system sends HIPAA-compliant alerts via email and text messages and retains valuable data on alerts for future review. For this study, the researchers analyzed pre-intervention data from 25 patients admitted between April and May 2021 and compared it with post-intervention data from 45 patients admitted during the same months in 2022.

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Nurse Reveals Patients MyChart on Social Media

Empowered Nurses

This was a blatant disclosure in violation of privacy laws and HIPAA. I researched this nurse at nursys.com and was able to find there was a nurse named Amber Nelson in Arkansas, but her license expired in 2021. Regardless, nurses on TikTok are outraged!

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How to Start a Physical Therapy Business: 14 Steps Guide

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Consult with an attorney to make sure you understand how to start a physical therapy business that adheres to HIPAA standards. 9 Also, you will need to prepare documents for your patients to fill out: medical histories, insurance forms, pain maps, HIPAA disclosures, etc.

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Nurses as Key Players in Telehealth

Daily Nurse

For example, an analysis by McKinsey & Co found that telehealth accounted for less than 1% of Medicare services before the onset of the pandemic, but by July of 2021, telehealth services accounted for about 13-17% of claims submitted to Medicare. Nurses must know and comply with HIPAA, information security, and confidentiality.

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12 Qualities and Skills of a Good Nurse

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

In addition to being ethical, protecting patient privacy can help you be HIPAA compliant, which is part of healthcare policy. The field of nursing is growing, and it has been for years. According to recent data, there were more than 3.9 million nurses in the U.S. This is a 13.6% increase from 2012.

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FAQs: AI and prompt engineering

American Nurse

Ensure response is consistent with HIPAA and other data privacy regulations and devoid of bias toward any legally protected classification and that it follows current medical practice. April 21, 2021. The tone should be professional, formatted as a checklist with accompanying instructions. AI prompts seldom are one and done.

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Protect Yourself From Nursing Lawsuits, Other Legal Issues

Nurse.com

According to an analysis of more than 4,600 events that led to malpractice suits from 2018 to 2021, nurses were involved in 18% of the suits. The researchers identified 850 specific events in which nurses were directly involved in care that resulted in an alleged medical error. Nurses are so busy, and this can reduce the risk of an error.”