A school student is among 10 locally acquired cases of Covid-19 recorded in New South Wales overnight. NSW Health announced five new cases in tests completed up to 8pm on Monday night, however two of them were announced yesterday. There were also seven new locally acquired cases recorded after the 8pm deadline, meaning there are… Read More »
Health Women Loading the player… Nora Langdon began weightlifting at the age of 65 and at 78 still continues to set world records in the competitive field. Read More: Disney+ taps Detroit Youth Choir for new docuseries Fox 2 Detroit reported Langdon began to show interest in lifting when she realized she wanted to get… Read More »
The processes of medical recordkeeping continue to change, as regulators more frequently set new requirements, and many healthcare organizations struggle to keep up with the changes. But the big problem is that too many hospitals and practices still haven’t managed the basics of collecting and reporting data for regulators and attorneys, Isabelle Bebit-Kilinyak, a corporate… Read More »
The National Association of Attorneys General wants the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to get rid of decades-old regulations preventing doctors from knowing patient addiction treatment histories. In a letter to congressional leaders, 39 state AGs called on Congress to “replace the cumbersome, out-of-date, privacy rules contained in 42 CFR Part 2 with the… Read More »
While electronic health records improve communication and access to patient data, researchers found that stress from using EHRs is associated with burnout, particularly for primary care doctors such as pediatricians, family medicine physicians and general internists. Common causes of EHR-related stress include too little time for documentation, time spent at home managing records and EHR… Read More »
Poor handling of paper medical records at San Mateo (Calif.) Medical Center led to a data breach for 5,000 patients. While frequent breaches affecting electronic protected health information have become the norm, there remains a lot of paper-based medical records that can be just as vulnerable and the following of HIPAA rules for mitigation of… Read More »