Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

JULY 6, 2023

A recent settlement between the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital in Washington state highlights the importance of safeguarding sensitive data. Department of Health and Human Services, reached a $240,000 settlement with Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital following an investigation into a privacy breach.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

We encourage anyone applying to these jobs to do their own due diligence. Note: These jobs are listed by Healthcare IT Today as a free service to the community. Healthcare IT Today does not endorse or vouch for the company or the job posting.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2024

Streamlined Workflow Integration: An efficient and scalable integration process allows for seamless incorporation of digital health solutions into existing hospital workflows. Go-to-Market Support: Benefit from standardized contracting procedures, marketing opportunities, and access to the vast Mayo Clinic Care Network member hospitals.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 22, 2024

We encourage anyone applying to these jobs to do their own due diligence. Note: These jobs are listed by Healthcare IT Today as a free service to the community. Healthcare IT Today does not endorse or vouch for the company or the job posting.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Discussing HIPAA compliance for hospitals in a single article is challenging. Not only is there so much to cover, but there are also many different types and sizes of hospitals. For example, most Medicare-participating hospitals already have: A Notice of Rights which includes the hospital’s grievance procedures.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2024

We encourage anyone applying to these jobs to do their own due diligence. *Note: These jobs are listed by Healthcare IT Today as a free service to the community. Healthcare IT Today does not endorse or vouch for the company or the job posting.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2024

We encourage anyone applying to these jobs to do their own due diligence. *Note: These jobs are listed by Healthcare IT Today as a free service to the community. Healthcare IT Today does not endorse or vouch for the company or the job posting.

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Verisys

JULY 20, 2023

Hospitals or health systems may not allocate adequate resources or staff to complete the medical credentialing process. This can result in lost revenue due to a delay in credentialing as well as stressed, overworked staff who are more likely to make mistakes. Mistake No. Mistake No. Mistake No. Mistake No. Mistake No. Mistake No.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The proper credentialing steps can be complex and time-consuming but are a fundamental responsibility of hospitals and healthcare facilities. Courts have ruled that hospitals can be held liable when a physician falsifies his credentials. Properly credentialing every single individual is an enormous amount of work for a team to handle.

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American Medical Compliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

According to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society survey from 2020, seventy percent of hospitals had suffered from a security incident. Third, due diligence with partners is essential to prevent attacks. Cybersecurity pressures grow for hospitals as digital health tools multiply. Get Certified.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Hospitals, for example, have increasingly been the target of malware and ransomware attacks. This past August, Prospect Medical Holdings took its main computer network offline after an incident affecting 16 hospitals and over 100 other medical facilities across the U.S.

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Verisys

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The proper credentialing steps can be complex and time-consuming but are a fundamental responsibility of hospitals and healthcare facilities. Courts have ruled that hospitals can be held liable when a physician falsifies his credentials. Properly credentialing every single individual is an enormous amount of work for a team to handle.

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Hall Render

JUNE 22, 2023

A third-party review pointed to insufficient due diligence, turnover in management and inadequate in-house real estate expertise as contributing to the abandonment of the project. A Los Angeles ballot measure backed by SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West would cap pay for hospital executives at $450,000 per year.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Recently North Broward Hospital District (Broward Health) notified OCR of a breach affecting 1.3 Each business associate or vendor opens your organization to potential risk — and that risk increases as their access increases — so, do your due diligence. million in the 12 months prior. million individuals.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

While these physical tools within a hospital or private practice are important, unstructured data also plays a critical, yet often understated, role in the overall care experience of a patient. Lab results, transcripts, radiology imagery, and physicians’ notes all fall under the category of unstructured data.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 24, 2023

addressed several issues raised by a Mississippi Critical Access Hospital (“the Hospital”) and its management company, both of which are owned by the same individuals. The government must also act with due diligence to preserve its claim. Corporate Mgmt.,

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Verisys

JULY 27, 2023

For most hospitals, health systems, practice groups, acute care facilities, and surgical centers, this is a daunting task with a seemingly small payoff compared to the effort required to keep the records up-to-date. We use trusted data to protect your patients, ensure compliance, and speed up provider enrollment.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2023

Make sure you have a complete understanding of their procedures by performing due diligence. As a best practice, include the following in your third-party risk management process to protect health system data: Review the vendor’s security processes and controls during vendor selection.

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Verisys

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The proper credentialing steps can be complex and time-consuming but are a fundamental responsibility of hospitals and healthcare facilities. Courts have ruled that hospitals can be held liable when a physician falsifies his credentials. Properly credentialing every single individual is an enormous amount of work for a team to handle.

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Verisys

JULY 5, 2023

For most hospitals, health systems, practice groups, acute care facilities, and surgical centers, this is a daunting task with a seemingly small payoff compared to the effort required to keep the records up-to-date. We use trusted data to protect your patients, ensure compliance, and speed up provider enrollment.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 4, 2023

From spending habits to hospital visits, humans are walking treasure troves of information. Conduct due diligence when acquiring data-combing software, be transparent about research with staff and clients, and make sure to adhere to local and national policies. In the healthcare sector, this primarily applies to patient data.

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Dossier

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Scalable and sustainable – Binders require storage space, which isn’t sustainable as hospitals’ needs change. Cloud-based competency management scales easily, a great asset to hospitals undergoing mergers and acquisitions. All of Dossier’s CSMs have worked or are currently working as nurses in hospitals.

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Health Law Advisor

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

which include, but are not limited to, hospitals, healthcare centers, diagnostic centers, rehabilitation centers, extended care facilities, nursing homes, outpatient clinics, dispensaries, and residential health care facilities. It covers all non-governmental healthcare entities licensed under N.J.S.A. 26:2H-1 et seq.,

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YouCompli

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

If not already at the table, be ready to deploy the same due diligence and compliance program oversight as part of your vendor oversight initiatives. Be prepared for an oversight structure that includes new partnerships such as cloud vendors, external IT professionals, and other consulting firms.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 22, 2023

Potential patients may first interact with other channels to acquire information and conduct due diligence, but it is often voice calls that are needed for patients to convert. Improved Lead Generation Process Voice communication remains critical to the patient journey.

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YouCompli

JUNE 1, 2022

In one case, a nurse was banned in Arizona after multiple incidents at five different hospitals in the state. In another case, a nurse in a Dallas hospital administered a medication (undiluted vitamin K) too quickly. Doctors and other staff reportedly requested this nurse not be assigned to certain patients.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Privacy concerns act as a brake on the growth of API-driven digital transformation, with hospitals, insurance companies, and health systems having cited security and privacy issues as the most formidable barriers to API adoption. Prioritizing privacy over everything must be the paramount rule for all healthcare API builders.

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AIHC

JUNE 22, 2022

As a result, patients can feel safe going for treatment to clinics and hospitals whose staff are all credentialed. Thunig firmly established that hospitals have an ethical responsibility for the medical care received by patients. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) have, as a result, become the best standard for due diligence.

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YouCompli

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

A joint risk audit of your vendors involving compliance and IT would demonstrate such due diligence. Compliance professionals must ensure that business associates that use tracking technologies complete a business associate agreement and comply with HIPAA Rules.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Cases in which this option exists are limited to inclusion in a hospital directory and for notifying family and friends of an admission. The exception to the authorization requirement is when an individual has the opportunity to informally agree or object to a disclosure of PHI.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 31, 2024

In response to an alarming increase in cyberattacks on New York hospitals, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced new cybersecurity measures had been proposed for New York hospitals , which are expected to be finalized in the first half of 2024. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.

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YouCompli

MAY 24, 2023

The doctors received thousands of dollars in exchange for ordering laboratory tests from certain hospitals and laboratories. You can use publicly available data to perform some initial due diligence. In Texas, fifteen physicians paid $2.8 million to resolve allegations of illegal kickbacks related to laboratory services.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 30, 2023

This was in response to the growing level of healthcare fraud and abuse and an alleged “compliance disconnect” at the executive level in many hospitals and health systems. While the seven elements of a compliance program apply to all industries, they originated in the healthcare industry in the 1990s.

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Provider Trust

MAY 17, 2022

Our research shows, on average, a hospital with 1,000+ employees also contracts with and/or relies upon an even larger network of vendors. It handles Protected Health Information and processes and stores such data for a hospital. Vendor Y is a supplier of surgical instruments to a hospital.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Twenty years ago, seeing the records department pushing a cart full of paper records was normal on a hospital unit. Unfortunately, hospitals and clinics across the country today are constantly changing their Health Information Systems (HIS), creating huge gaps in the data available from disparate legacy systems. Remember Paper Files?

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Hall Render

AUGUST 19, 2022

While RWI was originally developed for use in private equity transactions, RWI is now being used in a variety of transactions, including those involving nonprofit hospital and health system acquisitions of physician practices. RWI offers a number of key advantages over traditional risk allocation methods.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 9, 2022

For example, several hospitals within a healthcare system under the same ownership can designate themselves as an Affiliated Entity; but, if the parent organization is not a Covered Entity, ePHI cannot be disclosed to the parent organization. The post Guide to HIPAA Safeguards appeared first on HIPAA Journal.

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