Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding, Calif. — part of Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services — has received five deficiencies from the California Department of Public Health for ...
Nearly half of physicians (49%) believe that it is acceptable to breach patient confidentiality in the name of protecting the help of others, according to the second part of Medscape’s “Hot Topics in ...
HHS has proposed revisions to a patient confidentiality regulation that would develop an information exchange for patient substance use disorder records. The current rule, Part 2 of the ...
In a typical presidential election year, voters might wonder how the candidates’ views stack up on issues such as abortion, tax cuts, gun rights and immigration policy. But this year, as a 78-year-old ...
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has announced a final rule ...
Our most egregious mistakes in medicine often become lawsuits. A common denominator of those lawsuits is that they should prevent these situations from happening to another patient. However, the worst ...
Researchers found that the possibility of parental disclosure through online patient portals led older adolescents to hesitate in sharing complete health information with doctors, putting them at risk ...
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