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| Jun. 11, 2014 |
EMTALA: Avoiding the Consequesces
Emergency Care of Stroke Patients 2014
Call for FCEP Board of Directors Candidates
If you have ever thought to yourself that FCEP should do this or FCEP should do that, then the annual FCEP elections are your opportunity to get involved to help make some of those things happen.
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| June 26, 2014 | Webinar: "EMTALA: Avoiding the Consequences" |
| July 16, 2014 | FCEP Board Conference Call |
| July 17-20, 2014 | ClinCon |
| Aug. 7-10, 2014 | Symposium by the Sea |
| Aug. 7, 2014 | FCEP Board of Directors Meeting |
| Aug. 7-8, 2014 | FCEP Committee Meetings |
| Aug. 7-8, 2014 | Emergency Medicine Conference for Mid-Level Provider |
Florida Blue grows accountable care network
Healthcare Payer News
Florida's largest insurer is humming along with its strategy of alternative reimbursement models, signing an accountable care agreement with one of Tenet's ACO networks. Florida Blue has reached an agreement with Tenet's Advantage Health Network to bring in-network access to about 10,000 commercially-insured members in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. "ACOs are changing the way physicians coordinate and deliver patient care by reducing readmissions, ER visits and unnecessary duplication of services," said Clint Hailey, Tenet's senior vice president of managed care.More
Moms, nurses laud new EPA carbon pollution plan: 'Ultimately, it will save lives'
ThinkProgress
The Environmental Protection Agency's recent proposal to cut carbon emissions from existing power plants will go into effect in 2015. The proposed rule calls for a 25 percent cut in carbon emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants by 2020 and a 30 percent cut by 2030, compared to 2005 levels. The regulations are meant to mitigate the damaging effects of climate change, but they bring with them major benefits for public health. More
New hospital price data released for South Florida, nation
Miami Herald
The department's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services analyzed charges and payments for the 100 most common inpatient procedures covered by Medicare at more than 3,000 U.S. hospitals during the 2012 fiscal year. By making public the wildly varying prices for the same medical procedures — even among hospitals located in the same geographic market — the Obama administration said it hoped to increase transparency from healthcare providers and give consumers the tools to be smarter shoppers for medical care. More
Study: Trampoline injuries cause more than 1 million ER visits
Insurance News Net
The study states that the injury toll between 2002 and 2011 included nearly 289,000 people mostly children and racked up emergency department costs of more than $1 billion of which $400 million was spent on broken bone injuries. About 60 percent of the broken bone injuries occurred in the upper extremities such as hands, fingers, forearms and elbows while lower extremity fractures were more common in the legs and ankles, the study states. Also, spine, head and rib injuries accounted for 4 percent of fractures, according to researchers. The study has pointed out that a vast majority of these trampoline injuries occurred at home.More
Trauma exposure, PTSD and the effect of explanatory variables in paramedic trainees
BMC Emergency Medicine
Emergency healthcare workers, including trainees and individuals in related occupations are at heightened risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder and depression owing to work-related stressors. Researchers aimed to investigate the type, frequency, and severity of direct trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress symptoms and other psychopathology amongst paramedic trainees. In order to create a risk profile for individuals who are at higher occupational risk of developing PTSD, this study examined risk and resilience factors that possibly contributed to the presence and severity of posttraumatic symptomatology.More
EMPros donates $10,000 to hospital
The Daytona Beach News-Journal
Florida Hospital DeLand's emergency medicine physician practice, Ormond Beach-based EMPros, has donated $10,000 to the hospital's emergency department. "We are so thankful for the outpouring of support from EMPros," said Beth Hooks, Florida Hospital DeLand emergency department director. "With these funds, we'll be able to purchase televisions for each of the patient rooms in our ER, enhancing the overall experience for our patients." More
Improving coordination between hospitals and EMS through health data exchange
iHealthBeat
To date, the federal government's efforts have largely focused on encouraging hospitals and ambulatory care providers to adopt electronic health records so that they may share health information electronically with one another. With that task well underway, a new focus area is emerging — connecting emergency medical service providers with hospitals. To this end, HHS' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response launched a new "collaborative community campaign" called "Health IT and EMS" to spark new ideas about how to involve EMS providers in electronic health information exchange. More
Hospitals put pharmacists in the ER to cut medication errors
NPR
In the emergency department at Children's Medical Center in Dallas, pharmacists who specialize in emergency medicine review each medication to make sure it's the right one in the right dose. It is part of the hospital's efforts to cut down on medication errors and dangerous, which contribute to more than 7,000 deaths across the country each year. More