American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 7, 2024

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 protects the health and well-being of staff.

Hazardous Materials 88

Hazardous Materials Documentation/Coding Legal Issues Patient Safety 88

Mind The Bleep

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR) is an umbrella organisation, with teams the final decider of how they operate. I’ve done the course and now instruct and examine on it – well worth doing if you join to help determine what’s appropriate and sensible, and what you can expect of RRMTs who attend a scene with you.

Soft Tissue Injuries 52

Soft Tissue Injuries Seizures Ambulance Services Teamwork 52

ALiEM

OCTOBER 30, 2023

She likes teaching, but are not sure residency or medical student education leadership is for her. The same goes for clinical operations and research – interesting, but there hasn’t been any “a ha” moment to illuminate her calling. The most supportive data for coaching in medicine is for physician wellness and mitigating burnout [7].

Academics 64

Academics Leadership Wellness Research 64

ACEP Now

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The summit participants examined the multifactorial causes of boarding through the lens of transparency, regulatory challenges, mental health, financial drivers, operational modifications, workforce, and other categories. ACEP leadership on difficult issues like this is invigorating emergency physicians across the country.

Emergency Department 52

Emergency Department Leadership Hospitals Administration 52

33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The fundamental problem: we turned on 24/7/365 access for patients (who of course like it) with no operational or business model to handle it. How we are charged to use (or not use) a certain technology has to be a new priority of medical leadership. Pretty simple as well. Crucial that we fix this. Pretty simple.

Leadership 74

Leadership Administration Operations Hospitals 74

PHEM Cast

APRIL 19, 2016

Remember this, especially when managing adolescents; children may not be as interactive or as co-operative as you would expect for their age. Recent report covering the last 2 years of TARN data: [link] When children are injured/ill and scared they regress. Significant cervical spine injury in children is exceptionally rare.

Head Injuries 52

Head Injuries Ambulance Services Hospitals Leadership 52

ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

This second interview, conducted toward the conclusion of Dr. Aisha Terry’s tenure as President, reviews her goal of strengthening the leadership pipeline for the College and follows up on challenges that arose during the past 12 months. One of the things you wanted to accomplish was talking about the leadership pipeline for ACEP.

Leadership 52

Leadership Emergency Department Patient Safety Wellness 52

ACEP Now

AUGUST 28, 2024

But much of IEP’s leadership trained or worked at Ascension St. So far, they are communicating well. With plenty of warning from the union, TeamHealth and the hospital implemented contingency staffing plans to keep the ED fully operational. It remains to be seen how this will affect the local union’s status, Dr. Wiener said.

Emergency Department 85

Emergency Department Hospitals Patient Safety Leadership 85

ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

She is Vice Chair for Admin & Operations for EMRA and Editor for Urgent Matters. Karen Hou Chung, MD is a PGY-4 resident in emergency medicine at George Washington University in Washington, DC. She is interested in a wide variety of topics related to health equity and population health.

OB/GYN 59

OB/GYN Emergency Department Leadership Hospitals 59

EMDocs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

2019) argue against a minimum NIHSS score to trigger the use of CTA, instead purporting that clinical suspicion of acute ischemic stroke presenting within 24 hours of the last known well was sufficient evidence to order the study. 8 The data in Mayer et al. 9 A later assessment of the VAN score in Beume et al. positivity rate on CTA for BCVI.

Stroke 86

Stroke Radiology Radiology Emergency Department 86