Ask the Healthcare Industry: Phishing is a Pain

Applicants dedicate a vast amount of time and effort to get their regulatory submissions in compliance with exchange standards in order to facilitate the review process by the Health Authorities with the ultimate goal of obtaining approvals.

Lots of healthcare data moves electronically between payers, providers, and members. Unfortunately, a substantial percentage of payments between payers and providers are still done with paper—resulting in slower transactions, high administrative costs, and lots of process friction. Watch this video to hear a large national payer share the strategy behind their company’s success in getting providers to sign up for electronic payments and to learn how you can optimize the adoption of electronic payments by your providers using Change Healthcare’s Payer Enrollment Services.

Nurses are expected to do more with less, to work long hours, and to deliver high standard of care. Government regulations, state laws and the threat of litigation lingering require that nurses remain knowledgeable of the latest and most current information that affects their clinical practice and be aware of the legal implication of documentation in the medical record regardless whether it is an electronic format or handwritten. Understanding the legal implications of health care is frequently stated Its not if you get sued but when you get sued.There has been an increase in the number of malpractice cases in part, due to an increased awareness of patients' and consumers' rights. Nurses have to bear heavy responsibilities. Failure to fulfill these responsibilities may result in allegations of negligence that can lead to malpractice lawsuits. Allegations of negligence can arise against a nurse from almost any action or failure to act that result in patient injury. This information addresses related laws and regulations, malpractice, and ways of preventing malpractice allegations by defining the relevant issues nurses are facing in health care on a daily basis.

Kidney function is assessed in the laboratory by measuring serum creatinine and/or Cystatin C and estimating glomerular filtration rate using equations. Since 2009 the most frequently used equation has been the 2009 CKD-EPI equation, which includes Cr, age, sex and race in the equation.