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How Often Should My Trauma Operations Committee Meet?

The Trauma Pro

As you know, one other mandatory committee is required of all trauma centers, the Trauma Operations Committee (Ops). In this post, I will: describe how often your operations committee should meet help you determine whether your two committees should meet on the same day or separately How Often? Is it the same as your PI committee?

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How to Ensure Dental Regulatory Compliance 

American Medical Compliance

Amidst the busy dental appointments, treatments, and patient care, there are crucial aspects that often operate in the background but hold importance. These are recordkeeping and documentation. While the primary focus in dentistry is patient health and well-being, carefully keeping records is equally needed.

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Healthcare Compliance for New Providers: Getting Started

American Medical Compliance

Moreover, compliance with HIPAA helps healthcare providers avoid substantial fines and legal penalties associated with data breaches, thereby maintaining compliance with federal standards and ensuring the smooth operation of their practices. It ensures healthcare providers operate ethically.

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OSHA Compliance in Dentistry: Creating a Safe Work Environment 

American Medical Compliance

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations are vital for maintaining a safe and healthy work environment in all industries. Dental practices must maintain radiation safety protocols and provide radiation safety training for staff operating radiographic equipment. This includes dentistry.

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Best Practices for Healthcare Organizations to Ensure OSHA Compliance

American Medical Compliance

With the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) setting standards to protect workers from occupational hazards, healthcare organizations face unique challenges in maintaining compliance due to the complexity of their operations and the diverse array of risks inherent in patient care.

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The Safety and Efficacy of Push Dose Vasopressors in Critically Ill Adults

RebelEM

The retrospective design of this study omitted assessment of ventricular dysrhythmias related to push dose pressor administration, as they were reliant on information in the EMR. Assessed clinical practice, outcome, length of stay, safety, and efficacy of both phenylephrine and epinephrine peripherally administered through a push dose.

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Happy HIPAA New Year!

Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

During those two years, the OCR oversees all compliance activities and requires that all HIPAA related documentation and issues be submitted and approved or reported to them according to strict guidelines. Many comments to the NPRM noted that this would be an operational and compliance risk issue for providers.