MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'codes'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:05:30 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5008278&cid=t_201675_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fperiodic-table-of-qr-codes.html – QR codes are those little black and white boxes that look like a messed up barcode, which is essentially what they are, 2D barcodes. They’re becoming almost ubiquitous. Every event you attend, every restaurant you pass, almost every site you visit seems to have a QR code. You can embed all kinds of information and even add logos without breaking their functionality. But, best of all you can use them to visit a website with your smartphone by simply aiming its camera at the QR (either on a screen or printed in a shop window, for instance) and up pops the appropriate page. I’ve added a QR to Sciencebase and re-enabled the QR for Sciencetext. You can thank Brady Haran of PToV fame for inspiring me to do so. He emailed me earlier today to alert me to the Periodic Table of ... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5008278 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:38:42 +0100 5008278 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4975866&cid=t_201675_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fdo-physicians-prefer-ventilated-and-sedated-patients%2F2011.06.28 You ever wonder what doctors really think but are afraid to say out loud?  Here’s one example: “I wish all my patients were on a ventilator” There’s a reason vented and sedated patients are considered desirable.  In addition to the obvious economic benefits of ROS unobtainable Billing critical care CPT 99291, 99292 There are the less talked about, but equally pleasant side effects most hospitalists, ER doctors, cardiologists, gastroenterologists, pulmonologists,  surgeons, infectious disease doctors, endocrinologists, psychiatrists, rheumatologists, dermatologists, nurses, respiratory therapists and physical therapists wouldn’t admit, but would agree, without hesitation.  As a general rule: Patients on ventilators are just faster, easier and more pleas... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4975866 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:00:00 +0100 4975866 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4921556&cid=t_201675_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Flynn%2F2011%2F06%2F06%2Frelief-may-be-in-sight-for-some-penalty-threatened-eprescribers-%25e2%2580%2593-meaningful-use-monday%2F Some physicians—most notably, surgeons and pain-management specialists—have expressed concern that they will be unfairly subject to the 2012 ePrescribing penalties, based on the fact that their opportunities to ePrescribe are limited by the nature of their practices. The Proposed ePrescribing Rule published in the Federal Register on June 1 offers a potential remedy for these providers.  The rule, which amends the (MIPPA) 2011 ePrescribing rule, affords providers several new arguments they can use to request a “hardship exemption” from the 2012 penalties. (These are in addition to the already existing reasons, i.e., rural areas that lack high speed internet access and/or rural areas that lack pharmacies that accept ePrescriptions.) The new justifications include:       1)  ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4921556 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:35:42 +0100 4921556 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4893405&cid=t_201675_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FBGwwH_nACTM%2F By Ilya ShapiroPeople in the D.C. area maye be familiar with the tragic tale of Fairfax teacher Sean Lanigan, who was falsely accused of sexual molestation, resulting in termination and a destroyed reputation.  As pointed out by friend of Cato and Cato Supreme Court Review contributor Hans Bader, however, the Department of Education is pushing a policy that would allow for more Sean Lanigans, even in cases not involving anything close to rape or molestation: If the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has its way, more teachers like him will end up being fired even if they are acquitted by a jury of any wrongdoing.  It sent a letter to school officials on April 4 ordering them to lower the burden of proof they use when determining whether students or staff are guilt... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4893405 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:22:05 +0100 4893405 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4828884&cid=t_201675_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fcreative-semantics-used-by-health-insurance-companies-to-avoid-payments%2F2011.05.16 Insurance companies are supposed to pay for health care, although they do everything they can think of to avoid doing so. One company in particular (a small player here though a much bigger gorilla in other markets) does so by playing with words, even when another behemoth lost a lawsuit over the same issue. The topic involves paying for preventive services while a patient is in the office for care of an acute illness or management of a chronic condition. The way we communicate with insurance companies about what we do in the office is by way of codes; CPT codes, to be precise. There are separate codes to differentiate between preventive services and the so-called Evaluation and Management (E/M) services. The latter are your basic office visit codes covering all the “cognitive” service... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4828884 Mon, 16 May 2011 16:00:32 +0100 4828884 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4532282&cid=t_201675_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FH5NRyC5wBA0%2F The last Meaningful Use Monday post detoured from the EHR incentives to ePrescribing under MIPPA—given its importance based on the impending schedule of penalties. Because I receive ePrescribing questions on a daily basis, I thought a quick recap of ePrescribing basics might be helpful: Incentives and penalties: Year Incentives* Penalties* 2011 1% – 2012 1% 1%** 2013 0.5% 1.5%** 2014 on – 2% *Percent of provider’s total Medicare Part B FFS Allowable Charges. (Incentives assume provider does not receive EHR incentive for that year.) **Based on 2011 ePrescribing activity Incentives are earned per provider, and each provider must individually meet the requirements. This means that some providers within a practice might qualify for an incentive, while o... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4532282 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:58:42 +0100 4532282 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4477869&cid=t_201675_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FM7bwC-aDYy8%2F No Matter What Else You Do in 2011, You’ve Got to ePrescribe With all of the focus on meeting meaningful use, the requirements related to ePrescribing under the Medicare MIPPA program seem to be getting lost in the shuffle. Just as some practices didn’t get the message about the 2010 change in ePrescribing G-codes until late in the year, I am hearing that the communication hasn’t reached everyone about the importance of ePrescribing in 2011; so I thought I would post a reminder: 2011 ePrescribing activity will be the basis for the 2012 and 2013 ePrescribing Medicare penalties (AKA “adjustments”) under MIPPA. If you are not already ePrescribing, it’s important to start very soon. The following are the rules: ePrescribe on 10 Medicare encounters between now and June 30, 2011 to ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4477869 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:39:08 +0100 4477869 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4411738&cid=t_201675_175_f&fid=39258&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FInsidePaTraining%2F%7E3%2Fd7c0nRZGwaA%2Fdo-you-have-the-physican-assistant-personality Just a few weeks after beginning my PA training program at UC Davis, I noticed just how much I liked everyone in my class.  They were pretty much all people that I would enjoy spending time with.  With 58 in my class, what are the odds of that?  I talked about it with a few students, [...]Visit us at Inside PA Training - Becoming A Physician Assistant (Source: Palpating the Field) Palpating the Field blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4411738 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:08:39 +0100 4411738 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4394751&cid=t_201675_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FCvf7cwE0jD4%2F Hello, everyone, and nice to see you again. We hope your weekend was relaxing and refreshing. Now, of course, the time has come to resume the routine as those meetings and deadlines beckon. We know the feeling. To cope, we are brewing our usual cup of stimulation - our flavor today is Pumpkin Spice - and we invite you to join us. Meanwhile, here are some interesting tidbits to help you along. Hope your day goes well and do stay in touch… Supreme Court Rejects Vanderbilt Bid On Lilly Cialis Patent (Indianapolis Star) Glaxo Stopped Running Levitra Ads In Late 2009 (Dow Jones) EU Price Cuts And US Reform Weigh On Drugmakers (Reuters) Sanofi Extends Genzyme Bid To February 15 (Bloomberg News) China Health Deal To Boost US Pharma Exports (Pharma Times) Families Drop Case Against Epilepsy ... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4394751 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:57:03 +0100 4394751 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4197031&cid=t_201675_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FXKJvG-VoRAU%2F By Walter OlsonThe Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is out with this timely warning about the “Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act,” a bill introduced in Congress by Sen. Frank Lautenberg and Rep. Rush Holt, both New Jersey Democrats: …the bill redefines [campus-based] harassment in a manner that is at odds with the Supreme Court’s exacting definition of student-on-student harassment, which successfully balances the need to respond to extreme behavior with the importance of free speech on campus. In Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education, 526 U.S. 629 (1999), the Court defined student-on-student harassment as conduct that is “so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive, and that so undermines and detracts from the vic... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4197031 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:36:12 +0100 4197031 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4133714&cid=t_201675_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Flight-shed-on-the-corruption-of-the-ruc%2F2010.11.03 Interesting [recent] front-page article in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) about the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC). From the WSJ: Three times a year, 29 doctors gather around a table in a hotel meeting room. Their job is an unusual one: divvying up billions of Medicare dollars. The group, convened by the American Medical Association, has no official government standing. Members are mostly selected by medical-specialty trade groups. Anyone who attends its meetings must sign a confidentiality agreement. [...] The RUC, as it is known, has stoked a debate over whether doctors have too much control over the flow of taxpayer dollars in the $500 billion Medicare program. Its critics fault the committee for contributing to a system that spen... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4133714 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:00:00 +0100 4133714 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3924944&cid=t_201675_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F09%2F01%2Fsocial-memory-are-2-heads-better-than-one%2F Are two heads better than one? Maybe. Perhaps this doesn’t come as a surprise, because we all know on some level that even one “head” can be better than others in terms of memory. New research into “group memory,” or “social memory” sheds some light on how remembering together can be more or less effective. In part, it depends on the group’s “executive functioning”. Memory research has come a long ways since the early research many of us learned in psychology classes. There is the famous Bell Laboratories research into short-term memory which resulted in the famous axiom of “7 plus or minus two” – which refers to how many “slots” we can utilize “in our head” in real-time, keeping it there to “process,” sequence, manipulate. This is essentia... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3924944 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:46:03 +0100 3924944 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3845087&cid=t_201675_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Ftop-10-posts-on-the-gloss%2F Have you done things in your life you’re not proud of? Sure, but at least you aren’t the couple in the above shot. (That’s their engagement photo!) Check out 10 hilarious and surprising posts from last week on our sister site TheGloss. 1. Fashion 101: The Myth of Business Casual 2. What’s In Your Nightmare Box? 3. Gallery: Bad Engagement Photos 4. Five Bucks Says Gisele Is Trying to Become the Next Gwyneth 5. Rich People Are On Vanity Fair’s Best Dressed List Because They’re Better Dressed Than You 6. Bitch, Please: My Best Friend’s An Addict And My Boss Is A Slob 7. How to Spend All Night In the Hospital 8. Italian Woman Wins Title of Miss Chubby, Publications Decline to Show Her Photo 9. Why Do We Get Upset When Celebrities Get Nose Jobs? 10. 10 ... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3845087 Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:00:07 +0100 3845087 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3746738&cid=t_201675_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fmedicare-em-guidelines-undermine-patient-care%2F2010.07.12 Since the late 1990s, American physicians have labored under a set of tortuous documentation requirements imposed upon them by our government. The E&M guidelines (for “evaluation and management”), apply to the documentation that physicians are now obligated to provide in support of their Medicare billing. The E&M guidelines, first instituted in 1995 and revised in 1997, were part of the Clintons’ great fraud reduction initiative. Ostensibly, the strict documentation requirements reduce the opportunity for fraudulent billing. While doctors initially railed against the E&M guidelines, they now suffer them in relative silence. The E&M guidelines have become, in fact, just one more hurdle which doctors must navigate as they pick their way through the vast obstacle course ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3746738 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:00:57 +0100 3746738 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3665970&cid=t_201675_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fa-man-is-not-equal-to-the-sum-of-his-medical-problems%2F2010.06.16 I believe that those controlling the purse strings are steering modern medicine towards the practice of seeing patients more as the sum of their medical problems than as individual people. Patients have become streams of data as opposed to real human lives. Consider the dynamics of a family: a wife may worry about her husband while their child adores a father she instinctively knows to be irreplaceable. Modern medicine, however, may only see a diabetic with hypertension and a cholesterol-level running too high. The computers programmed for those advocating the power of data to revolutionize medicine would boil this man down to his “meaningful” essence….numbers, for the above imaginary man: 250.00, 401.0, and 272.0. (more…) (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3665970 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:00:43 +0100 3665970 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3603597&cid=t_201675_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fthe-positive-power-of-compulsive-medicine%2F2010.05.26 Most experienced physicians expect uncertainty in caring for real people with average everyday problems. Yet those inexperienced or uninitiated in medicine tend to see the practice of medicine as exact or even absolute. I remember waiting in vain as a medical student and resident for my instructors to illuminate a path towards certitude. Instead, I was given something far more real and lasting: An acceptance of the indeterminate mixed with the drive to be compulsive on behalf of my patients. During my internal medicine internship, I remember a more-senior resident during our daily morning report bemoaning her uncertainty by saying, “But I just don’t know what’s wrong with my patient.” Although she was visibly upset, our program director’s reaction to her comment bordered on amus... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3603597 Wed, 26 May 2010 12:00:00 +0100 3603597 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3096791&cid=t_201675_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F12%2F17%2Fthe-health-and-social-care-act-2008-code-of-practice-for-health-and-adult-social-care-on-the-prevention-and-control-of-infections-and-related-guidance%2F Title: The Health and Social Care Act 2008: Code of Practice for health and adult social care on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance Skinny: The Code of Practice, which comes into force on 1 April 2010 for the NHS and October 2010 for all other registered providers, sets out the criteria against which a registered provider will be assessed by the Care Quality Commission. It also provides guidance on how the provider can meet the registration requirement relating to healthcare associated infections set out in the regulations. Publisher: DH Size of Publication: 72p. Published: 16/12/2009 Posted in Grey Literature, Infection Control Tagged: Codes of Practice, Grey Literature, Infection Control, Quality, Regulation (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3096791 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:00:33 +0100 3096791 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3015293&cid=t_201675_93_f&fid=35707&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FHemodynamics%2F%7E3%2FNUSoxQ6eGJE%2Fcoding-et.html [I tried to embed scenes from the movie from YouTube. Of course these have been removed due to copyright violation. But probably if you look it up, someone else will have posted it.]I was at home on my own, watching TV post-call after an ICU shift. Nothing was on, and I landed on the middle of "ET: The Extra-Terrestrial". Before you know it, government agents are surrounding the family home; soon, as ET gets sicker and sicker, a medical team starts coding ET. When I watched this movie as a kid, I saw it through the child's eyes, and the government agents were totally terrifying. Now I see the physicians among them as basically benign, though surely misguided: in trying to save ET's life; they're running a by-the-book Advanced Cardiac Life Support code algorithm.Apparently, there were real ... hemodynamics blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3015293 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:49:00 +0100 3015293 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2973908&cid=t_201675_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FhyiiIStODJc%2F School officials denied student Pete Palmer the right to wear a shirt supporting John Edwards’s presidential campaign at his Dallas-area high school. They cited the district’s dress code, which prohibited messages on student clothing except for those that supported school activities or district-approved organizations, clubs or teams. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit agreed with the school district that this was a reasonable “time, place and manner” speech restriction. Applying the test from United States v. O’Brien, the court found that the dress code was content- and viewpoint-neutral, and served an important governmental purpose. Palmer now seeks Supreme Court review, citing seemingly contradictory precedents from the Second and Third Circuits... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2973908 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:43:37 +0100 2973908 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2442751&cid=t_201675_150_f&fid=36939&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscientific-misconduct.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fmisconduct-roundup-26-may-09.html A New issue of the Journal Science and Engineering Ethicsis now available. Most is sadly the type of scientific debate Springer thinks needs to be hidden behind its paywall. However one useful article is open access, and worth a read. I'll discuss it over the next few days. Here it is:Implementing the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Scientific Practice—A Case Study: Daan Schuurbiers, Patricia Osseweijer and Julian Kinderlerer. Science and Engineering Ethics15(2)/ June, 2009 213-231 (PDF here)Chinese Earthquakes - ?cheating in scientific reports on building constructionIt is just over a year since the Sichuan earthquake in southwestern China. In an article in The Guardian (UK) Ai Weiwei writes of alleged state scientific misconduct and cover-up involving the Chinese Government. It involve... Scientific Misconduct Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2442751 Tue, 26 May 2009 21:28:00 +0100 2442751 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2089886&cid=t_201675_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F01%2F08%2Frecords-management-nhs-code-of-practice-part-2%2F published 8 January 2009 (Word version) is the second edition of retention schedules under the Records Management Code of Practice.  Useful for determining decision points. Posted in Grey Literature, NHS   Tagged: Codes of Practice, Grey Literature, Records Management, Retention Schedules    (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2089886 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:56:55 +0100 2089886 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1779313&cid=t_201675_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F09%2Fwed-special-exposure.html A long while back, I had a couple of non-verbal boys.Later, they became......a bit more verbal.A wee while ago, one of them decided "not to talk" any more, for no apparent reason that I could fathom. I was worried! I hoped it was a positive choice on his part, a voluntary mute. I decided to worry and wait. I wondered how long I would have to wait? How long is it possible to remain mute, voluntarily?Meanwhile, whilst I waited, I found my house suddenly plastered with numerous arrows of varying hues and sizes.With a little help from his sister in the paper and cutting department, they decided to let me in on the act.He posted a key to the arrows in chart form and stuck it to the fridge. Pink arrows for food, blue arrows for 'other needs,' blue arrows to direct my attention to important matte... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1779313 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:30:00 +0100 1779313 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1606938&cid=t_201675_150_f&fid=36939&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscientific-misconduct.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F07%2Fwe-promise-to-be-honest-at-university.html Biomedical researchers at the University of Toronto are starting to sign a new honesty oath - See report in the Globe, also published in the Journal Science last week.Now why should I have a problem with this?Those behind this initiative (Karen Davis and Ori Rotstein) presumably have good intentions.Unlike doctors, scientists don't have an ancient moral code like the Hippocratic oath.But graduate students beginning their careers in medical research at the University of Toronto now have their own solemn ceremony in which they pledge to conduct themselves in an ethical fashion.Karen Davis, graduate co-ordinator at the Institute of Medical Science, says the new vow stems, in part, from the growing recognition of the potential for academic misconduct, which includes fraud, plagiarism and the s... Scientific Misconduct Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1606938 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:31:00 +0100 1606938 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1521930&cid=t_201675_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F06%2F16%2Fmental-capacity-act-2005-deprivation-of-liberty-safeguards-code-of-practice-to-supplement-the-main-mental-capacity-act-2005-code-of-practice%2F Draft  Code of Practice as laid before Parliament, 13 June 2008 , in accordance with sections 42 and 43 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, after having consulted Welsh Ministers and such other persons as he considered appropriate. Two sets of regulations were laid in Parliament at the end of May. Subject to successful completion of the Parliamentary process, final versions of the Code and regulations will be available by late July 2008. Subject to successful passage through parliament, the legislation will come into force in April 2009. The Code contains guidance on the Mental Capacity Act Deprrivation of Liberty Safeguards. The Code is particularly intended to provide guidance for professionals involved in administering and delivering the safeguards who are under a duty to have regard to t... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1521930 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:49:23 +0100 1521930 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1428923&cid=t_201675_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F08%2Fcode-of-practice-mental-health-act%2F The revised Code of Practice Mental Health Act has been prepared in accordance with section 118 of the Mental Health Act 1983 by the Secretary of State for Health after consulting such bodies as appeared to him to be concerned, and laid before Parliament. The Code will come into force in November 2008. (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1428923 Thu, 08 May 2008 12:40:03 +0100 1428923 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1314021&cid=t_201675_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F03%2F19%2Fcode-of-practice-for-promotion-of-nhs-services%2F sets out rules around promotional material issued by providers of NHS services to ensure that: the information patients receive is not misleading, inaccurate, unfair or offensive, that the brand and reputation of the NHS is protected, and that expenditure on promotional activity is not excessive. (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1314021 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:34:12 +0100 1314021 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1254994&cid=t_201675_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F02%2F25%2Fcode-of-conduct-for-payment-by-results-pbr-200708%2F The purpose of the Code of Conduct for Payment by Results (PbR) 2007/08 is to establish core principles, with some ground rules for organisational behaviour, and expectations as to how the system should operate, and to minimise disputes, as well as guide the resolution of them. This is Version 2, issued March 2007, which is not a comprehensive update of the original Code published in January 2006. Instead, limited changes have been made to reflect the developments in the national tariff for 2007/08, i.e. unbundling and the data quality assurance framework. We anticipate a more thorough review of the Code once the consultation on the Options for the Future of PbR is complete. PbR introduces a degree of transparency in NHS financial flows that is almost unprecedented. The new system challen... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1254994 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:20:50 +0100 1254994 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1233304&cid=t_201675_93_f&fid=36200&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.jammedph.com%2Futilize-coupon-codes-to-avail-discount-on-domain-names-and-hosting%2F Domain name registration these days costs an average of $9.00/year. It already sounds much for me. So I looked for ways that will give me cheaper domain registration. My first option was to search the web for cheap domain names. My second option is to use a coupon code to avail discount. But where do I get one? Luckily, I found a great site which provides coupon promotional codes including those for domain names and hosting. 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