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Four Labs and Billing Company Pay $140,000 Fine in HIPAA Case
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX No. 1 – January 22, 2013 Issue
WHEN A BILLING SERVICE company disposes of patients’ lab test records, it should do so in compliance with federal and state privacy rules. That means all protected health information (PHI) should be shredded or incinerated. Four pathology groups in Massachusetts learned this lesson the hard way wh…
Patient Service Center Theft Highlights Labs’ Need to Protect Paper Records
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 7 – May 14, 2012 Issue
LABS PUT SO MUCH EFFORT INTO SECURING electronic health records, that it’s easy to overlook the need to protect paper records. St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Stockton, California, learned this lesson the hard way recently when thieves stole more than 700 paper re…
HIMSS Says 46% of Hospitals Are at Stage 3 EMR Usage
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 3 – February 20, 2012 Issue
ADOPTION OF ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD (EMR) SYSTEMS by hospitals is occurring at a steady pace. That’s one recent finding by the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). In a statement made on February 17, HIMSS officials said that 46% of the nation’s hospitals…
2011’s Top 10 Lab Stories Point to a Busy 2012
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 1 – January 9, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Given the specific news stories that make up THE DARK REPORT’S list of the “Top Ten Lab Stories for 2011,” it might be said that 2011 was a rather quiet year overshadowed by anticipation of the coming reforms mandated by the Accountable Care Act of 2010. For the clinica…
At Kaiser Permanente, Real-Time Lab Results Are a Hit with Patients
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 15 – November 7, 2011 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Should patients be allowed to see their own lab test results when they are available to their physicians? Kaiser Permanente believes so. Since 2005, Kaiser Permanente has given members real-time access to most laboratory test results in their personal health record (PHR) on w…
How Digital Pathology Helps Pathologists Deliver Added Value
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 12 – September 6, 2011 Issue
“Pathologists have the opportunity to take on a new clinical role as the integrator of all that digital pathology information, in combination with the patient’s other clinical data collected from a wide variety of sources.” —Dirk G. Soenksen, M.S., M.B.A., Founder…
Destructive Tornado Hits Joplin Hospital, Lab Rebuilds Swiftly
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 10 – July 25, 2011 Issue
CEO Summary: One week after one of the worst storms ever to strike a hospital in the U.S., St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Missouri, was back treating patients. Surprisingly, the hospital’s lab was one of the first departments to get up and running again. Within…
How Labs Should Comply With New Signature Rule
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 1 – January 18, 2011 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Across the nation, clinical laboratories and pathology groups are reacting to the new Medicare rule that requires a physician signature on a paper requisition for clinical laboratory tests. Laboratories using paper requisitions will need to add a signature line, then…
Pathology Records Found At Massachusetts Dump
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 12 – August 23, 2010 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Pathologists at four Massachusetts hospitals got a powerful reminder recently that a breach of protected health information (PHI) can occur at any time for the most unexpected reason. Earlier this month, the Boston Globe reported that the pathology reports and patien…
HIEs Boost Fortunes of Community Hospital Labs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 12 – August 23, 2010 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Regional health information exchanges (HIEs) are becoming more common. In Southern Indiana, the HealthLINC HIE is boosting the value that the community hospital laboratory provides to physicians. At the top of the list is expedited turnaround of laboratory test resul…
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