Recorded Webinars

Sue Dill Calloway

HIPAA Regulations and the New OCR Guidance Memos: Cracking the Code

The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) released the long awaited final regulations that affect four things; the privacy law, the security law, the HITECH rules and Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). These become effective September 23, 2013. These mean big changes to hospitals. This document was 563 pages long and is referred to as the mega rule. Hospitals will need to rewrite some of their policies and procedures. Staff will need to be educated.

Sue Dill Calloway

The Joint Commission New Patient Flow Standards and Preventing Crowding and Boarding in the ED Webinar

There were two new patient flow standards 2014 for hospitals. This program will also discuss the three new ones that were implemented in 2013. This program is a must attend webinar for every hospital for two additional reasons. First the Joint Commission has emergency department (ED) quality measures along with CMS who has ED throughput measures which includes evaluation of the average time spent in the ED before they were admitted as an inpatient. There are now over four million who signed up for health coverage under the affordable care act which will most likely increase utilization of the emergency department. Managing patient flow is even more important now that ever. This program will also include many evidenced based recommendation for reducing boarding and overcrowding.

Sue Dill Calloway

CMS Hospital Nursing CoP Standards 2014

Did you know there are new changes to nine of the tag numbers in the nursing service chapter? Did you know there were ten recent memos of importance to nurse managers and chief nursing officers? There are many changes to this section in the recent past including timing of medications, standing orders, restraint, plan of care, verbal orders, blood transfusions, IV medication, third revised worksheet, and drug orders. CMS made over two dozen changes to the hospital CoP regulations effective July 16, 2012.

Sue Dill Calloway

HIPAA Regulations and the New OCR Guidance Memos: Cracking the Code

The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) released the long awaited final regulations that affect four things; the privacy law, the security law, the HITECH rules and Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). These become effective September 23, 2013. These mean big changes to hospitals. This document was 563 pages long and is referred to as the mega rule. Hospitals will need to rewrite some of their policies and procedures. Staff will need to be educated.




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