MANDATES

Boosters for Healthcare Staff Requirement Coming

Boosters for healthcare staff are becoming mandated in 5 states as the omicron variant spreads.

Here are the states that have announced booster mandates :
1. New Jersey
2. New York
3. Connecticut
4. California
5. New Mexico

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OSHA

Attorneys general from 27 states ask OSHA to withdraw COVID vaccine mandate

Although the U.S. Supreme Court last week temporarily halted OSHA’s vaccine mandate for companies with 100 or more employees, the agency has not withdrawn the emergency temporary standard, which it says could affect 84 million workers across the country.

The High Court, in the majority opinion, stated that although “Congress has indisputably given OSHA the power to regulate occupational dangers, it has not given that agency the power to regulate public health more broadly.” Requiring vaccination of millions of American workers “simply because they work for employers with more than 100 employees” falls into the latter category, the justices wrote in the majority opinion.

HR

How ‘virtual’ scribes can reduce EHR headaches

Virtual scribes are reducing EHR headaches and allowing physicians to focus on patient care. Scribes are those who work offsite or in a different area of the practice (i.e., not in the exam room) to document important aspects of the encounter so the physician or other provider can focus on providing patient care and working more efficiently. Read the whole story >>

Excelas, LLC provides record retrieval, organization, and analysis to document important aspects of the medical record so in house counsel, claims agents, and defense attorneys can an focus on the defense or settlement strategy and work more efficiently.

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SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

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At Excelas, LLC’s January webinar, The COVID Challenge, participants learned Excelas, LLC has been documenting and maintaining a thorough, up-to-date database of COVID Federal guidance since March 2020, so your organization doesn’t have to spend precious time and resources recreating timelines from archive data.

We have also collected and organized complete state guidance for IL, KS, PA, GA, AZ, NY, NJ, FL, IN, NV.

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