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Spring Forward With 2024 Compliance Changes

MedTrainer

Download a toolkit with everything you need to know about USP <800> compliance. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requires nursing homes and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) to have an individual who is qualified by experience and training to serve as an infection control preventionist.

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HIPAA Training For Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

American Medical Compliance

The courses include module quizzes, downloadable materials, individual support, and questions for test preparation. Assisted Living Education and Training Employees of assisted living facilities do not have the same level of exposure to infectious diseases and bloodborne pathogens as the workers of long-term care facilities and nursing homes.

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Maintaining Compliance With Long-Term Care Training

MedTrainer

Download the Ultimate List of Training Requirements for Long-Term Care to see a full list of federal training requirements for nursing homes and skilled nursing staff broken down by role, with the applicable standard, CMS violation category, and frequency.

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Compliance Implications for the End of the Federal Public Health Emergency (PHE)

MedTrainer

For example, in your rush to move appointments online, did you adopt telehealth technology that will no longer be compliant when all HIPAA Rules are enforced? Nursing homes must still provide annual emergency preparedness training. Download this free toolkit for resources to update your disaster preparedness plan.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A provider present with the patient at one location – a nursing home, community clinic, etc. During the COVID-19 epidemic where elder patients are at the highest risk and where hospitals are at overcapacity due to COVID-19, SafeBeing helps keep patients safer at home or in elder care facilities, and out of hospitals.

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CPSI gives away new telemedicine system to combat the pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The new product is billed as EHR-agnostic, secure and HIPAA-compliant and can be set up by downloading an app. In an effort to fight the spread of the virus, the HHS Office for Civil Rights announced that during the coronavirus pandemic it would use discretion when enforcing HIPAA compliance for telehealth communications tools.

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Caregility unveils mobile telehealth app, gives it away to fight pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The application gives clinicians multiple options to consult over a secure, HIPAA-compliant connection to patients or other clinicians. Designed specifically for clinicians, the mobile version is available for both iOS and Android devices. If needed, all three clinical workflows can be used within the same video call. THE LARGER TREND.

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