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Denver Health nurses gain big efficiencies redesigning Epic EHR workflow
Denver Health clinicians faced challenges in their electronic health record (EHR) system, including multiple locations for assessments and difficulties in finding specific patient data due to inconsistencies. This resulted from...
Breaches and Cyber Attacks: Make the Right Move
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Don’t Wait Until it Happens
HIPAA violations can lead to significant penalties. To mitigate the risk of a violation, and to ensure a swift and appropriate response if/when it happens, control is key.
4 Compliance Issues in Home Healthcare
This article dives into the top four major compliance issues in Home Healthcare. With detailed explanation Jill Pearson covers these issues and why it’s important for others to know this information to change the outcome.
United States: What’s Old Is New Again: Key Compliance Issues For Clinical Laboratories
Karen Lovitch, Chair of the firm’s Health Law and Health Care Enforcement Defense Practices was interviewed for this article which was included in the January 2023 issue of Laboratory Economics. She covers the top compliance challenges faced by clinical laboratories, Covid-19 testing fraud, and more.
What Compliance Officers Need to Know Going Into 2023
This article focuses on key 2022 pronouncements from the government, and also includes recent guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), HHS’s Office of the Inspector General (“OIG), and the most current enforcement trends.
What “operationalizing compliance” actually means—and why it matters.
This blog post is a detailed explanation on the concept of “operationalizing compliance”. It illustrates the necessity of integrating compliance into everyday business practices and the steps to achieve this integration.
Denver Health nurses gain big efficiencies redesigning Epic EHR workflow
Denver Health clinicians faced challenges in their electronic health record (EHR) system, including multiple locations for assessments and difficulties in finding specific patient data due to inconsistencies. This resulted from early fragmented EHR design and a lack of standardization.
Nursing had low compliance with real-time documentation, partly due to the perception of multiple data entry points and non-actionable alerts. The proposal aimed to streamline EHR documentation, focusing on head-to-toe assessments, nursing interventions, intake assessments, and optimizing alerts.
Based off Denver’s solution proposal, Terlumina’s automated compliance software would enhance compliance across all healthcare systems. Specifically, by streamlining processes, providing real-time alerts and reminders, reducing errors, integrating with EHR systems, and offering monitoring and reporting capabilities. It ultimately makes the documentation process more efficient, accurate, and manageable for healthcare providers, leading to improved patient care and regulatory compliance. To read more about Denvers efforts click here.
Breaches and Cyber Attacks: Make the Right Move
The financial and reputational costs associated with data breaches and cybercrimes, such as ransomware and malware, can be devastating. These types of events continue to increase dramatically. Healthcare providers and their business associates, for example, are being targeted more aggressively than ever. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework offers a comprehensive set of best practices designed to mitigate these risks and protect data. These practices are grouped into five main categories: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover. While organizational policies and procedures based on these best practices are a critical first step, they must be operationalized into practice in order for them to be effective. Individual practices and controls must be assessed regularly to identify and address current risks. Unfortunately, this is an area where most organizations fall short, potentially resulting in a catastrophic security incident that could have been mitigated or avoided. Stop just crossing your fingers and take control now with Terlumina.
Don’t Wait Until it Happens
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) violations can lead to significant penalties. These can range from fines for minor or unintentional violations to substantial penalties for systematic failures or willful neglect of HIPAA rules. The exact penalties can vary, depending on the nature of the violation, the harm caused, and the violator’s attempts to correct the violation. Learn more about penalties here. To mitigate the risk of a violation, and to ensure a swift and appropriate response if/when it happens, control is key. Establishing and maintaining control requires transparency, accountability, and diligence. Terlumina provides the governance framework necessary to put these principles into action. Start with operationalizing your policies and procedures into daily practices with actionable tasks. Monitoring each and every task to completion and periodically objectively assess how you are doing. Implement corrective actions if/when necessary as tasks that are also tracked to completion. There is no easy way, but with Terlumina it finally becomes possible.
4 Compliance Issues in Home Healthcare
This article dives into the top four major compliance issues in Home Healthcare. With detailed explanation Jill Pearson covers these issues and why it’s important for others to know this information to change the outcome.
Find it here: https://www.legalreader.com/4-compliance-issues-in-home-healthcare/
United States: What’s Old Is New Again: Key Compliance Issues For Clinical Laboratories
Karen Lovitch, Chair of the firm’s Health Law and Health Care Enforcement Defense Practices was interviewed for this article which was included in the January 2023 issue of Laboratory Economics. She covers the top compliance challenges faced by clinical laboratories, Covid-19 testing fraud, and more.
Find it here: https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/healthcare/1275362/whats-old-is-new-again-key-compliance-issues-for-clinical-laboratories-
What Compliance Officers Need to Know Going Into 2023
This article focuses on key 2022 pronouncements from the government, and also includes recent guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), HHS’s Office of the Inspector General (“OIG), and the most current enforcement trends.
Find it here: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/what-compliance-officers-need-to-know-going-2023
What “operationalizing compliance” actually means—and why it matters.
This blog post explains why operationalizing compliance is crucial for any business to meet commitment, ensure compliance, and ensure good risk management. This article looks at the importance of how your business can operationalize compliance and how this can be achieved.
Find it here: https://blog.thebroadcat.com/what-operationalizing-compliance-actually-means
Denver Health nurses gain big efficiencies redesigning Epic EHR workflow
Denver Health clinicians faced challenges in their electronic health record (EHR) system, including multiple locations for assessments and difficulties in finding specific patient data due to inconsistencies. This resulted from early fragmented EHR design and a lack of standardization.
Nursing had low compliance with real-time documentation, partly due to the perception of multiple data entry points and non-actionable alerts. The proposal aimed to streamline EHR documentation, focusing on head-to-toe assessments, nursing interventions, intake assessments, and optimizing alerts.
Based off Denver’s solution proposal, Terlumina’s automated compliance software would enhance compliance across all healthcare systems. Specifically, by streamlining processes, providing real-time alerts and reminders, reducing errors, integrating with EHR systems, and offering monitoring and reporting capabilities. It ultimately makes the documentation process more efficient, accurate, and manageable for healthcare providers, leading to improved patient care and regulatory compliance. To read more about Denvers efforts click here.
Breaches and Cyber Attacks: Make the Right Move
The financial and reputational costs associated with data breaches and cybercrimes, such as ransomware and malware, can be devastating. These types of events continue to increase dramatically. Healthcare providers and their business associates, for example, are being targeted more aggressively than ever. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework offers a comprehensive set of best practices designed to mitigate these risks and protect data. These practices are grouped into five main categories: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover. While organizational policies and procedures based on these best practices are a critical first step, they must be operationalized into practice in order for them to be effective. Individual practices and controls must be assessed regularly to identify and address current risks. Unfortunately, this is an area where most organizations fall short, potentially resulting in a catastrophic security incident that could have been mitigated or avoided. Stop just crossing your fingers and take control now with Terlumina.
Don’t Wait Until it Happens
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) violations can lead to significant penalties. These can range from fines for minor or unintentional violations to substantial penalties for systematic failures or willful neglect of HIPAA rules. The exact penalties can vary, depending on the nature of the violation, the harm caused, and the violator’s attempts to correct the violation. Learn more about penalties here. To mitigate the risk of a violation, and to ensure a swift and appropriate response if/when it happens, control is key. Establishing and maintaining control requires transparency, accountability, and diligence. Terlumina provides the governance framework necessary to put these principles into action. Start with operationalizing your policies and procedures into daily practices with actionable tasks. Monitoring each and every task to completion and periodically objectively assess how you are doing. Implement corrective actions if/when necessary as tasks that are also tracked to completion. There is no easy way, but with Terlumina it finally becomes possible.
4 Compliance Issues in Home Healthcare
This article dives into the top four major compliance issues in Home Healthcare. With detailed explanation Jill Pearson covers these issues and why it’s important for others to know this information to change the outcome.
Find it here: https://www.legalreader.com/4-compliance-issues-in-home-healthcare/
United States: What’s Old Is New Again: Key Compliance Issues For Clinical Laboratories
Karen Lovitch, Chair of the firm’s Health Law and Health Care Enforcement Defense Practices was interviewed for this article which was included in the January 2023 issue of Laboratory Economics. She covers the top compliance challenges faced by clinical laboratories, Covid-19 testing fraud, and more.
Find it here: https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/healthcare/1275362/whats-old-is-new-again-key-compliance-issues-for-clinical-laboratories-
What Compliance Officers Need to Know Going Into 2023
This article focuses on key 2022 pronouncements from the government, and also includes recent guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), HHS’s Office of the Inspector General (“OIG), and the most current enforcement trends.
Find it here: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/what-compliance-officers-need-to-know-going-2023
What “operationalizing compliance” actually means—and why it matters.
This blog post explains why operationalizing compliance is crucial for any business to meet commitment, ensure compliance, and ensure good risk management. This article looks at the importance of how your business can operationalize compliance and how this can be achieved.
Find it here: https://blog.thebroadcat.com/what-operationalizing-compliance-actually-means
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