Did you know the month of October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month? This is a time to honor those with Down Syndrome, share educational information and highlight how far patient’s have progressed with Down Syndrome over the years. What is Down Syndrome? When a person has an extra copy of chromosome 21, one of the 46 chromosomes, they are born with Down Syndrome. During fertilization,…
Sandy began working for Registry Partners as a Clinical Data Abstractor and subsequently promoted to Senior Project Manager for our Quality Services Division. Prior to joining Registry Partners, Sandy worked as a Quality and Data Submission Coordinator for King’s Daughters Medical Center in Ashland, KY. She has also served as a quality review nurse, bed management coordinator, advanced cardiac nurse, charge nurse and a staff nurse…
This October, Registry Partners is a Proud Supporter of National Health IT Week. National Health IT Week is an awareness week offering all healthcare stakeholders an opportunity to unite under one banner, expressing the benefits that health information technology (IT) brings to U.S. healthcare. “The Value of Health IT.” Comprehensive health care reform is not possible without system-wide adoption of health information technology, which improves the…
October shares two holidays of horror: Halloween and National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Unfortunately, not a week goes by without news feeds highlighting a recent breach, hack, security vulnerability, or controversy involving online activity compromise. The last decade has been an epidemic of data security breaches and security professionals believe the issues will continue to increase. “Cyber security is so vast, overall, and I think…
