RACs Moving Forward: Year of Uncertainty is Over
By Lula Jensen – RACs are back! Following several delays and multiple lawsuits, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has finally awarded the new RAC contracts.
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Lessons Learned from OCR Enforcement Actions
By Rita Bowen – As of September 30, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has received over 141,754 complaints. Over 24,500 of these led to OCR investigations, resulting in required changes to privacy practices, corrective actions or technical assistance.
Best Practices for Incident Response Plans
By Sara Goldstein – Data breaches cost companies an average of $221 per compromised record. Heavily-regulated industries, like healthcare, tend to have per capita data breach costs substantially higher than the overall mean.
HCCA Wrap Up
By Rita Bowen – The Health Care Compliance Association’s Compliance Institute is a must-attend event for provider, hospital and health system professionals working with any form of healthcare compliance.
Health IT Appointments and Hires
Check out the latest announcements made from companies and organizations on the hiring and appointments in the healthcare and health IT industry.
Health IT Appointments and Hires 2015
Check out the latest announcements made from companies and organizations on the hiring and appointments in the healthcare and health IT industry. List includes TSI Healthcare, Sequoia Project BOD, former ONC policy attorney Jodi G. Daniel, and Zipongo.
2014 ONC Certification Product News
The following have announced that these products have received ONC 2014 Edition Product Certifications. You can find all product certification information on the ONC CHPL web site.
Industry Commentary and Criticism of ProPublica Surgeon Scorecard
In July of this year, ProPublica released a searchable database of 16,827 surgeons performing one of eight elective procedures in Medicare and their individual complication rates. They focused on elective cases because they typically involve healthier patients with the best odds of a smooth recovery.
Health IT Appointments and Hires 2014
Announcements made from companies and organizations on the hiring and appointments in the healthcare and health IT industry.