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Oncology Grand Rounds
Comprehensive Breast Care Center at Baptist Hospital:
Patients scheduled for breast cancer surgery at Baptist, Saint Thomas Hospital or Middle Tennessee Medical Center now have the option to attend a pre-operative class to help them prepare for the road ahead.
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Physician Spotlight: Dr. Susan Andrews
“The doctor will see you now.”
These are the words every sick patient hopes to hear as soon as possible.
But Dr. Susan Andrews’ patients can connect to the doctor with a telephone call or Internet conversation as well as an office visit.
Andrews and her husband, Dr. Randall Rickard, work together at Family Practice Partners in Murfreesboro, a small practice that has taken advantage of the time savings and efficiency offered by electronic medical records (EMR).
KELLY PRICE |
A Letter from the Publisher
We haven’t even finished the first quarter, yet 2008 has already proven to be a challenging year. New regulations, a slowing economy and continuing threats to reimbursement force clinicians and administrators, alike, to focus attention on the business side of the healthcare industry.
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Safe and Sound
Privacy and Security Gaps Hamper HIPAA Compliance
Everyone talks a good game, but more than a decade after the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 burst onto the collective national conscience, many healthcare entities still aren’t truly compliant.
Two key elements of the massive federal mandate focus on patient privacy and security. For all covered entities except small health plans, the privacy rule went into effect April 2003, and the deadline to meet security standards was April 2005. Small health plans had an extra year to become compliant on both privacy and security.
CINDY SANDERS |
Philip Hardin |
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It’s Time to Embrace NPI
March Is Critical Month for Latest HIPAA Regulation
It’s March … do you have your NPI, yet?
If not, chances are your healthcare entity will very soon experience a disruption in Medicare payments.
The National Provider Identifier (NPI) is one of the administrative simplification standards set by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
CINDY SANDERS |
Dr. Robert Fallis, Saint Thomas Health Services Center for Multiple Sclerosis |
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Saint Thomas Neurologist Joins New National MS Committee
Because of his participation in the local chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, a Nashville neurologist took a seat in January on the national organization’s Council of Clinical Advisory Chairs.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Shedding Light on Lymphedema
Cancer is an insidious group of diseases that affect far too many of us, our friends and our family members. The American Cancer Society projects 1,444,920 new cases will be diagnosed this year across the country, and 28,440 patients will hear those difficult words for the first time: “You have cancer.”
SHEILA RIDNER, PHD, RN |
Matthew Gallivan, Dr. Roger Davis, and Dr. Randy Lowry, begin demolition work on Burton Building, future home of the Lipscomb School of Pharmacy |
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Schools of Pharmacy Get Underway at Belmont and Lipscomb
Two Nashville universities have responded to a growing nationwide need for highly qualified pharmacists by establishing new Schools of Pharmacy, both set to open this fall.
Belmont University and Lipscomb University plan to seat first-year classes for four-year pre-professional degree programs that will award the doctor of pharmacy degree. Both universities are recruiting classes of 65 to 75 students from across the country.
KELLY PRICE |
Members of the newly named faculty at the School of Pharmacy at Belmont University |
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Tennessee Expands Pharmacy Education
For a Doctor of Pharmacy program offered by a new College/School of Pharmacy, ACPE accreditation involves three steps:
Pre-candidate status, which denotes a developmental program expected to mature with stated plans and within a defined time period. This is awarded to a new program that has not yet enrolled students in the professional program and authorizes the college/school to admit its first class...
KELLY PRICE |
Dr. Brian S. , Biesman |
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Lotions, Potions, Lasers and Light
The Lure of Adding Cosmetic Dermatology Services
Editor’s Note: Following is Part II in a two-part series on cosmetic dermatology. This month, we’re looking at the business side of offering laser and light therapy as more and more nontraditional providers explore this popular service line. To review last month’s clinical feature on the evolution of rejuvenation therapies, please go online to www.nashvillemedicalnews.com.
CINDY SANDERS |
Dr. Marek Kacki employs IPL –– among other aesthetic technologies –– at his new Bellevue practice, Visage MedArt. |
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A Nephrologist’s Journey into Aesthetic Medicine
After graduating from medical school in his native Poland, Dr. Marek Kacki came to the United States to complete an internship and residency in internal medicine followed by a two-year fellowship in nephrology at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.
CINDY SANDERS |
First author Dr. Maddalena T. Tilli, confocal microscope with digital photo of breast biopsy tissue, and Dr. Priscilla A. Furth (Professor at Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Georgetown University and Dr. Tilli’s mentor) |
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Better, Safer, Faster
Experimental Technique Offers Hope for Improved Biopsy Analysis
Although it’s all too easy to become immune to claims of “latest, greatest, better, best” in today’s rapidly changing world of medical technology, the fact remains that much of what has been discovered and refined over the past couple of decades has indeed been revolutionary in terms of patient care and outcomes.
CINDY SANDERS |
Beware the HIPAA Risk that Hides in Plain Sight
Many times throughout the workday, healthcare providers and administrators unwittingly leave private patient information — protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) — lying around the office.
The source of this penalty-worthy security infraction? The ubiquitous fax machine.
LYNNE JETER |
Andrea Lindsley |
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Power PR Couple Handles the Daily Demands of MS
If Andrea and Paul Lindsley want to make just one point, it’s this: Multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence. In fact, their life together — with their 3-year-old daughter, Anna — is proof life certainly goes on after an MS diagnosis.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Prescribers, Pharmacists Prepare for Tamper-Resistant Prescriptions
After a six-month reprieve, federal legislation is set to go into effect April 1, 2008, requiring Medicaid outpatient prescriptions to be presented to pharmacists on tamper-resistant pads containing at least one security measure.
In Tennessee, this new mandate impacts written prescriptions for TennCare patients.
CINDY SANDERS |
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