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Ways to Dispose of Medications Safely and Legally
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Ways to Dispose of Medications Safely and Legally

According to a survey done in 2017, which is conducted on a large sample of Americans by Consumer ­Reports, about 30% of Americans did not clean out their medicine cabinets for over a year and nearly 20% have not done so in the last 3…

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March 31, 2021 by wastemedicadmin
Combating Patient-Generated Violence with Safe Hospital Design
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Combating Patient-Generated Violence with Safe Hospital Design

The mission of why healthcare exists is to heal and restore health, but that can be difficult to accomplish if the built environment is not designed with security in mind. A safe environment is a major contributor to healing, yet violence generated by patients and…

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March 31, 2021 by wastemedicadmin
5 Most Common HIPAA Violations Physicians Should Watch For
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5 Most Common HIPAA Violations Physicians Should Watch For

Hospitals are the most common violators of HIPAA privacy regulations, followed by private practices, outpatient facilities, pharmacies and health plans, according to a March 3 report from the American Medical Association. HHS’ Office for Civil Rights, which is responsible for enforcing HIPAA privacy rules, regularly…

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March 31, 2021 by wastemedicadmin
Arbour Hospital Pays OCR $65K Over HIPAA Right of Access Violation
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Arbour Hospital Pays OCR $65K Over HIPAA Right of Access Violation

The $65,000 settlement with Arbour Hospital is the seventeenth made by OCR under its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative, an agency compliance priority. The Department of Health and Human Services announced it reached a $65,000 settlement with Massachusetts-based Arbour Hospital, which resolved potential violations of…

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March 31, 2021 by wastemedicadmin
Ramping Up for COVID-19 Vaccine Waste
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Ramping Up for COVID-19 Vaccine Waste

Good news: the COVID-19 vaccine schedule is moving along in the U.S. and expected to pick up substantially very soon. Over 80 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered from December 2020 until mid-March 2021, and the Biden administration is aiming to see that three…

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March 31, 2021 by wastemedicadmin
Make the workplace safer for health care employees
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Make the workplace safer for health care employees

The deadly gunfire that erupted at a Minnesota medical clinic earlier this month sharpened the pangs of a Louisiana man’s grief even as it hardened his resolve to better protect health care workers from workplace violence. Gene Sausse owns a small business in New Orleans.…

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February 27, 2021 by wastemedicadmin
The COVID-19 vaccine rollout is going to create a massive waste management problem
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The COVID-19 vaccine rollout is going to create a massive waste management problem

An unintended consequence of COVID-19 safety procedures has been a surge in trash, from face masks to gloves to, now, the discarded syringes and needles from COVID-19 vaccines. If laid end to end, the needles from the number of vaccine doses needed to inoculate the…

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February 27, 2021 by wastemedicadmin
Unmasking the pandemic’s pollution problem
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Unmasking the pandemic’s pollution problem

Tanveer Adyel began to notice the trash in March. This was early in the COVID-19 pandemic. He saw latex gloves and blue, disposable masks littering his garden and street. Other types of personal protective equipment, or PPE, including face shields, were also among the trash.…

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February 27, 2021 by wastemedicadmin
Needlestick hazards and bloodborne pathogen standards accompany vaccine rollout
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Needlestick hazards and bloodborne pathogen standards accompany vaccine rollout

The ramping up of vaccination for COVID-19 comes with rising concerns about bloodborne pathogen (BBP) exposure for vaccinators and the need for personal protective equipment (PPE), as well as steps to prevent needlestick injuries and other BBP program requirements. The Centers for Disease Control and…

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February 27, 2021 by wastemedicadmin
Top challenges to HIPAA compliance
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Top challenges to HIPAA compliance

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA is a challenging Act for thousands of companies in the United States. It sets the standard for sensitive patient data protection in the country. If your organization deals with sensitive healthcare data, ensuring HIPAA compliance is…

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February 27, 2021 by wastemedicadmin

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  • Ramping Up for COVID-19 Vaccine Waste
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9 Apr

Good news: the COVID-19 vaccine schedule is moving along in the U.S. and expected to pick up substantially very soon. But a rapid ramp-up will mean a tsunami of vaccine-related waste, mainly needles. https://bit.ly/2QNI3ZG

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7 Apr

Yikes! Mobile Anesthesiologists' data may have been acquired by an unauthorized individual, because of an IT misconfiguration that made the data accessible to the public, according to the notice on its website. https://bit.ly/2PFnZrD

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6 Apr

Read our April Newsletter: Ramping Up for Vaccine Waste + Combating Patient-Generated Violence - https://mailchi.mp/bd2a464ff303/waste-medic-april20

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5 Apr

Sutter Health was fined again by Cal OSHA for failing to notify nurses that they had been exposed to COVID-19. The additional $141K in fines comes only weeks after the hospital was fined $155K after an investigation into a nurse’s COVID-19 related death. https://bit.ly/3fndYug

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1 Apr

The Duke University Health System has played an instrumental role in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic, from delivering vaccines to treating over 1,000 patients, but not without some raising concerns about worker safety. https://bit.ly/3rvNuJi

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