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VA suffers cybersecurity problems
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationFrom problems with managing its case load to actually falsifying documents related to patient care, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs doesn't seem to be taking security seriously, Federal News Radio reports. The VA failed its Federal Information Security Management Act Audit for Fiscal Year 2014, but the news agency has reported that the VA is in the wake of taking action to fix its cybersecurity vulnerabilities and deficiencies.
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How distractions cause stress and impede your ability to function
Michael S. Haro, Ph.D. Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementIf you are easily distracted, your level of stress likely rises with these distractions. In this state, your potential for making poor decisions and mistakes increases. Leaders and managers constantly face their share of distractions, so it's important to know how to handle them in the appropriate manner.
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Work-life balance in healthcare: Addressing the system
Catherine Iste Healthcare AdministrationWhy is achieving work-life balance as a healthcare professional so difficult? As noted in the first part of this three-part series, it is difficult for everyone to agree on what work-life balance really is. Without a common vocabulary on the subject, it is hard to determine to what degree you may or may not be achieving it.
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Senators press for more interoperability
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationEarlier this month, National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo told senators that health IT is "foundational" to President Barack Obama's Precision Medicine initiative and discussed ways to improve data sharing. According to Health Data Management in February, Obama asked Congress for $215 million in funding for a personalized medicine initiative that centers around the creation of a massive database containing the genetic data of at least 1 million volunteer participants.
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What we know in Year 2 of health insurance marketplace enrollment
Christina Thielst Healthcare AdministrationThe health insurance marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act are now in their second year of insuring consumers. While there continue to be some glitches, there are more insured Americans — some possibly for the first time in their life. Almost 8.84 million people have signed up for Affordable Care Act qualified plans through Healthcare.gov, and 53 percent of these are newly enrolled in 2015. An additional 2.8 million people have signed up for marketplace plans in states operating their own health insurance exchanges.
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Work-life balance in healthcare: Realign your priorities
Catherine Iste Healthcare AdministrationAs a healthcare professional, your work requires you to be there for others, but how can you do that effectively if you haven't taken care of yourself? Now that you are acutely aware of where your hours go, it's time to look at what you can do realign your time with your priorities.
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Is nursing really for everyone?
Joan Spitrey Medical & Allied HealthcareLast week, nursing student Jennifer Burbella filed a lawsuit against Misericordia University after failing a required class for the second time. The lawsuit claims she suffered from severe anxiety, depression and poor concentration and was not given appropriate accommodations during her final exam.
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DeSalvo has healthcare community’s support in moving on
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationAs has been widely reported, Dr. Karen DeSalvo, the former New Orleans Health Commissioner and current head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, has been nominated to become the assistant secretary of health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Work-life balance in healthcare: The fundamentals
Catherine Iste Healthcare AdministrationPeople in careers that revolve around helping others are often the worst at maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Healthcare workers are some of the most challenged employees when it comes to self-care, yet they spend every day helping others with health challenges.
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Survey: Many providers want ICD‑10 to just go away
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationICD-10 has been regularly stealing healthcare headlines for about two years and intermittently for years prior. Before that, the news centered around electronic health records, 5010 and meaningful use, of course. As an industry we’ve moved beyond each of those, except for the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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