ACP American College of Physicians - Internal Medicine - Doctors for Adults

This one convenient package contains everything you need to ensure that your outpatient medical facility meets all OSHA regulations, plus all the resources to ensure you remain compliant.

Includes:

The OSHA Safety Program Manual with Updates is a fill-in-the-blanks manual for outpatient medical and dental facilities.

Includes:

OSHA Watch Newsletter & Updates—The bimonthly newsletter maintains your OSHA Safety Program Manual with the latest OSHA information, provides practical tips for ensuring compliance, and a subscriber Q & A section and supplies username, password for online access to updates for your manual.

The HELP Book: Healthcare Emergency & Lifesaving Plan Helps outpatient medical and dental practices prepare for the unexpected. Presented on removable cards organized under 13 spiralbound tabs, The HELP Book measures 9"x12", and all cards can be easily updated. Includes a wall-mount holder.

Quality America’s newest OSHA training DVD, “What’s My Fine?” contains ten short scenes that depict daily operations at a medical clinic in Anytown, USA. In each scenario, healthcare workers make various mistakes that violate OSHA Standards. Your staff will identify these issues and note them in their workbook (provided on the included CD). Next, the host comes on screen and points out each item that was done incorrectly, and discusses the right way to do it. Finally, fines for noncompliance are assigned to each mistake. This 45-minute interactive, game show-type program is a fun and fast-paced way to make sure your staff completes annual retraining - and actually remembers what they learned. May be re-used yearly and offers one P.A.C.E. CEU credit.

This resource provides you with an introduction and background along with the following:

This guide has been divided into 9 chapters and follows a Q & A format.

Newly updated fact sheets that answer your questions about the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA). These single-topic fact sheets condense information from a variety of sources, such as the Federal Register and laboratory manuals, into user-friendly, one- and two-page formats. A variety of topics are covered under the following categories:

NIR tracks Medicare payment and claims processing policy, billing and coding guidelines for diagnostic testing as well as payment actions by managed care and other payers; examines crucial compliance policies under Medicare, Stark, CLIA, FDA, and OSHA; alerts you to the implications of congressional and regulatory changes; and monitors the escalating pace of federal enforcement actions by HHS Office of Inspector General, the Department of Justice and other federal authorities.

With your subscription to NIR, you receive:

A book that helps young and old alike understand the role of the clinical laboratory professional. The Lab Explorers—Erl, Hema, Unit, and Petri—each have a special role in helping people feel better by detecting diseases and disorders. Colorful, handdrawn illustrations will appeal to youngsters. This is a useful educational tool for placement in phlebotomy areas. Available in paperback.

Physician's Office Laboratory Microscopy Atlas, 3rd Edition, 2007-American Academy of Family Physicians

Want a preview? Take a look at the Table of Contents and Learning Objectives (text version) and Table of Contents and Learning Objectives (cd-rom version)

Donald S. Young, MB, PhD, and Edward J. Huth, MD, FACP with additional contributors. This is the manual for anyone who is performing proficiency testing requiring SI units, needs to convert SI units to traditional metric units, is guiding a hospital into the use of SI units, or is going abroad and needs a reference on SI unit usage.

Comprehensive, detailed tables give traditional units, SI units, conversion factors and reference ranges for chemical anolytes, hematologic measurements, cardiovascular and pulmonary function tests and other clinical applications.

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This easy-to-use guide is a bound publication that contains important laboratory information. The book is divided into three categories: Laboratory Administration, Testing Specialties and Quality Control.

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This Guide Summarizes the CDC’s Recommendations for Good Laboratory Practices for Waived Testing Sites.

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This publication tells you how to use the sample letter and provides a template from which to draft your own letter.

This user-friendly spreadsheet program is designed to analyze and help improve the overall financial health of your office lab. It allows you to manipulate data in order to perform "what if" scenarios, and it's designed to meet the specific needs of small- and medium-sized physician office labs.

Use it to analyze the feasibility of starting a new lab or adding services to an existing one, and determine the economic viability of your laboratory.

Optimization: Which tests should be done in-office and which tests should be referred out? What is the best mix of in-office testing for the health plans with which I contract? Office Laboratory Check Up helps you determine what mix will maximize the profitability of your laboratory testing, as well as what the financial consequences might be of offering more in-office lab tests for added patient convenience and quality.

Test Pricing: How do I set a viable fee schedule for lab services? How would a proposed capitation rate for lab testing affect my lab financially? At what prices can I afford to compete with other vendors for contracted lab services? The software offers a mechanism to help you develop bids on lab services—allowing you to negotiate with payers to maintain or add tests that otherwise would be referred out.

It's easy to use! Computer Requirements:

Microsoft Windows
MS Excel

You'll receive:

If the Spreadsheet File and Companion Manual are e-mailed to you, there is no shipping and handling charge. If mailed, a shipping and handling fee of $10.00 will be added to your order.

This new quality assessment plan was developed in response to the updated CLIA requirements of 2003. The new regulations emphasize the need to assess quality across the entire laboratory path of workflow, and will allow you to efficiently and effectively evaluate your general, preanalytic, analytic, and postanalytic activities to meet your quality improvement goals. Use this plan to incorporate quality assessment into the daily routine of your laboratory to get a better picture of ongoing performance, rather than just at one point in time. This approach will allow you to derive more benefit from your quality assessment efforts. This ready-to-implement QA plan is organized in a 3-ring binder and contains:

MLE Resources

• Contact MLE
• MLE Staff
• Regulatory Info

Related Laboratory Websites

• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
• CMS Regional Offices Contact List
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• COLA
• TJC (formerly Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
• State Agencies Contact List
• American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP)
• Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

Practice Management Discussion Group

Small Practice Discussion Group
Computing Discussion Group

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