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Archive for February 24th, 2005

Emergency Room Overcrowding Reported at LMRC

This article, in the Lakeland Florida Ledger, is about 20 patients that were diverted from Lakeland Regional Medical Center in just over 6 hours this past Tuesday.  Each of these 20 potential admissions represents  $50,000 to $75,000 in missed revenue.
The cause for this emergency department overcrowding?  A bottleneck in the ICU.  This was their first complete […]


HIPAA Security Deadline Looms, Will Hospitals Be Ready?

April 21, 2005.  Will you be ready when the new HIPAA Security compliance deadline hits?  Two articles caught my attention this morning, one on how to comply with the new rules, and a survey on progress to date.


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