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As 2016 comes to a close, ACFAOM wishes its members, educational partners and all members of our profession a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the profession, we plan to provide the readers of the ACFAOM Foot & Ankle Weekly a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Tuesday, Jan. 10.
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By Dr. Abimbola Farinde
From Aug. 23:
Within recent years, numerous issues involving Medicare have been brought to the forefront of healthcare discussions. And one of the latest is fraud. While there is no precise measure of the magnitude of Medicare fraud, it is known to be a serious problem because it involves individuals who lie to the government and exploit its programs. In July, for example, the Department of Justice charged three individuals in Miami in a $1 billion scheme to bilk Medicare.
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By Scott E. Rupp
From Oct. 4: Electronic health records have been one of healthcare's most innovative or divisive — depending on your point of view — technologies since the start of the modern, technological age. They take up more of doctors' and practice administrators' time, create more technical trials, and may lead to physician burnout, according to a recent report by US News & World Report. Specifically, electronic health records "have helped fuel a national epidemic of burnout among doctors."
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By Scott E. Rupp
From May 31:
Attacks on our health data continue — that's no secret — but where these breaches come from is still a matter of question. Whether they come from within or without, the number of these breaches remains consistently high. According to new research, nearly 90 percent of all healthcare organizations have been breached over the past two years, and about half of those estimate they've been breach more than five times over that same period.
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By Mark Huber
From May 17:
A friend had been suffering with abdominal pain for weeks. He tried to work through the issue with his family doctor, but he was referred to a specialist. When he called, he explained his symptoms and was stunned. Not only was the first available appointment six weeks away, but the scheduler was also wholly unsympathetic, even downright surly. My friend explained that six weeks was just too long to wait. The scheduler snapped back, "That's what emergency rooms are for."
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By Catherine Iste
From March 29:
Jodi Lasher, a nurse, was terminated after she failed to notify anyone that she needed to take measures to address her approved Family and Medical Leave Act accommodation for her persistent migraines. In short, she fell asleep in an unused patient room and neglected her duties to monitor fetal heart rates in the labor and delivery department in which she worked. This case provides illustrates a number of HR and management challenges.
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By Keith Carlson
From July 19:
The healthcare workplace environment has a deep impact on staff experience, including satisfaction, productivity and institutional loyalty. Workplace culture is a crucial aspect of the workplace environment, although it is less obvious than physical aspects such as cleanliness, air quality, safety concerns, ergonomics and layout. Savvy, forward thinking healthcare leaders understand that creating a positive, supportive culture is paramount, but it can be an uphill battle.
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By Lonny Alfred
From Aug. 30:
The numbers don't lie. Cases of opioid addiction and overdoses have been on the upward bound in the last decade. Just as alarming, more than half of practicing physicians today display signs of burnout, and those rates don't look to be declining anytime soon. Critics think the reason for the rise in both issues stems from the lack of education in today's medical schools around treating pain in patients and physician well-being. Medical schools are now meeting these issues head on.
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By Jessica Taylor
From March 1:
Medical personnel know attitude, tone and body language are key to patient satisfaction. I recently had the pleasure of visiting a practice where the atmosphere was great, but one thing killed the experience: document errors. After receiving one of their forms, I immediately noticed that HIPAA was spelled incorrectly as "HIPPA," which automatically made me think HIPPA-potomus. Although it was funny at the moment, I began to question the professionalism of this practice.
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By Rosemary Sparacio
From Jan. 26:
The technological revolution continues to foster advances in medicine at an increasingly rapid rate. In diabetes treatment, monitoring and care, state-of-the-art "gadgets" have made the management of this disease easier and allowed and encouraged more compliance on the part of the patients. Let's take a look at three new devices on the market. First up is the Noctura 400, a breakthrough device that intervenes in the complex process that causes diabetic retinopathy.
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By Catherine Iste
From April 12:
Jodi Lasher, a nurse, was terminated after she failed to notify anyone that she needed to take measures to address her approved FMLA accommodation for her migraines. In short, she fell asleep in an unused patient room and neglected her duties. This case illustrates a number of HR and management challenges. We discussed the challenges of accommodating leaves in Part I and communication issues in Part II. We will explore more about openness and documentation in this article.
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