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1. Business Associates: How To Prevent A $750,000 Compliance Violation
“Raleigh Orthopedic Clinic, a provider group practice that operates clinics and an orthopedic surgery center in Raleigh, North Carolina, settled with OCR for $750,000 after a compliance violation where the PHI of 17,300 individuals were disclosed. They also entered into a corrective action plan (CAP) with significant requirements for an additional two years. A better system for managing business associates is the best place to start for preventing this sort of thing from happening to your organization. If your organization isn’t taking the necessary preventative measures, you’re at risk of facing the same or worse consequences.”
2. How to Navigate the Gray Areas of Compliance
“Being a compliance officer requires us to constantly open our eyes to new information. New regulations, better ways of getting our job done, research into innovative tools that optimize our performance and make compliance management just a little bit easier. It’s a relatively young field that is always changing in an industry that is as dynamic as ever. Part of the reason that learning and research are so fundamentally important is that compliance can be a “gray area” type of profession. It’s easy to respond to “black or white” questions but, as we all know, the issues that often escalate to your desk are the 'gray area,' not-so-easy questions.”
3. How to Onboard New Employees into Compliance Culture
“Employee onboarding is the best way to get the most out of your employees as quickly as possible. Effective onboarding can also be a useful tool for compliance because integrating compliance into your onboarding process is the most effective way to emphasize the importance of your compliance program to the new hire and fully immerse them into your compliance culture.”
4. How to Support Your Compliance Officer
“As a Compliance Officer, you’re charged with the complicated task of creating and maintaining compliance. You manage a thousand moving parts, often while fighting a constant, uphill battle to prove the legitimacy of your relatively new, though crucial, position. You’re often misunderstood by management and colleagues because your job is to protect your organization, to maintain compliance.”
5. Why Outsource Your Risk Analysis?
“I’ll admit, I’m a little biased when clients ask if they should outsource their risk analysis. Afterall, I'm a HIPAA consultant and expert with a practice that focuses on risk assessment and penetration testing. I make my living conducting risk analysis. But, my bias aside, I genuinely believe that most healthcare organizations are better off outsourcing their risk analysis.”
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