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HealthGate Helps Hospitals Address Medicare's End of Coverage for Preventable Errors

Published in MD Week, September 7th, 2007

HealthGate Data Corp. (www.healthgate.com), a leading provider of collaboration document management and quality improvement applications for the healthcare industry, announced the release of a collection of comprehensive evidence-based Nursing Guidelines designed to help hospitals prepare for new Medicare rules that will curtail reimbursements for preventable infections and medical errors.

The list of conditions singled out by these new Medicare rules includes fall-related injuries; bedsores, or pressure ulcers; vascular and urinary tract infections caused by catheters and infections following heart surgery. Also, certain treatments resulting from what Medicare defines...

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