Verisys

MARCH 6, 2025

Emerging technologies arent siloed to the hospital floor or operating room. What Is AI in Healthcare Compliance? Imagine having a tireless assistant who handles the nitty-gritty of regulatory compliance so healthcare teams can focus on what matters mostpatient care and privacy. AI acts as a built-in safety net.

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MedTrainer

JANUARY 26, 2024

Many individuals and organizations opt to obtain a healthcare regulatory compliance certificate to highlight that commitment. In this blog, we will explore what is a healthcare regulatory compliance certificates, provide a high-level description of its purpose, and list who typically uses such certificates.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 23, 2025

These settlements involved managed care providers, physicians, hospitals, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies, laboratories, and other medical facilities. Compliancy Group supports healthcare organizations through robust regulatory compliance training and incident reporting tools. While the $1.67

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Additionally, it plays a pivotal role in meeting regulatory compliance standards, such as HIPAA and SOC 2 and 3, safeguarding patient privacy, and maintaining the integrity of healthcare data.

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Total Medical Compliance Resources

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

link] HIPAA Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Awareness Course $30.00 Our new online course on HIPAA regulations equips employees to combat fraud, waste, and abuse in healthcare. Participants will learn to identify, prevent, and report these issues, ensuring compliance with HIPAA and protecting patient privacy and resources.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 4, 2023

Monitoring and maintaining the security of IT infrastructure is often overemphasized within hospitals and health systems, while the human side of reducing risk is often under-emphasized. The answer is training, continual training to help create a culture of security within your hospital or health system.

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MedTrainer

MAY 12, 2021

The Hidden Benefits of Regulatory Compliance in Healthcare. With its maddening complexities and time- and resource-consuming demands, regulatory compliance is thought to be the plague of any thriving business. But what is compliance in healthcare? Fact: Regulatory Compliance in Healthcare is an Advantage.

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Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Here are the possible outcomes of ineffective healthcare management: Poor Internal Communication Hospitals waste about $12 billion yearly due to poor communication, which is typically due to outdated information technologies, low interdepartmental morale, or vague reporting policies.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2025

Currently, hospitals and clinics invest significant resources in appealing denied claims, a process that often involves manually gathering medical records, summarizing clinical justifications, and drafting comprehensive responses. Regulatory compliance further complicates adoption.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2025

Facial recognition provides fast and precise identification, which is particularly valuable in high-traffic areas such as hospitals. Healthcare organizations must ensure compliance with privacy laws like HIPAA and GDPR. Balancing robust security with seamless user experiences remains a key challenge.

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MedTrainer

JULY 25, 2024

Adhering to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards is crucial to uphold compliance and regulatory requirements for any health organization. What Is HIPAA? HIPAA, enacted in 1996, originally aimed to improve health insurance portability and reduce healthcare fraud.

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MRO Compliance

APRIL 9, 2024

However, reaching this goal requires overcoming significant hurdles, such as connecting to numerous EHRs, hospital and health systems, providers, and labs, differing levels of IT readiness, and varying degrees of data compatibility. The goal is clear: enable disparate healthcare information systems to communicate and exchange data seamlessly.

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Compliancy Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Healthcare organizations must adhere to strict regulations outlined by HIPAA to ensure patient information’s confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Conducting regular HIPAA compliance audit reports is critical in identifying weaknesses or vulnerabilities in an organization’s policies, procedures, and systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This leaves hospitals and their patients vulnerable to data and security breaches,” said OCR Director, Melanie Fontes Rainer. “In How Compliance Supports Your Security Posture Regulatory compliance requirements facilitate cybersecurity in several ways.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Diana Sonbay-Benli, VP & Chief Product Officer, Cognizant TriZetto Healthcare Products at Cognizant Since the advent of HIPAA, almost a career’s duration ago, we’ve focused on the safeguarding of data. HIPAA/HITECH rules have been utilized in sharing data between various entities.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Additionally, continuous monitoring, patch management, risk assessments, vendor management, regulatory compliance, incident response planning, and user training are crucial. Concerns related to security risks and the IT organization’s ability to respond to them are significant, particularly in hospitals.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 21, 2023

These unique identification codes can serve important functions allowing item-level track and trace as well as authentication of the drug, enabling hospitals and patients to verify the provenance of the drug or medication. Typically, they can carry a unique identification code, manufacturing details, expiration dates, and lot numbers.

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Compliancy Group

AUGUST 28, 2024

Human resources (HR) professionals have a stake in their organizations’ healthcare compliance practices. Regardless of company size or number of employees, thorough HR compliance training ensures that your practice, hospital, or company protects patients and workers.

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Compliancy Group

MAY 15, 2024

As we move deeper into 2024, hospitals must increasingly focus on compliance with regulations set forth by the Office of Inspector General (OIG). This guide outlines the OIG’s hospital compliance priorities and provides actionable advice on ensuring your hospital meets these rigorous standards.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 21, 2023

The HIPAA Journal has spoken with Zbyněk Sopuch, Chief Technology Officer at Safetica Inc., a global software company that provides business data protection and insider threat prevention solutions, including HIPAA-regulated entities. What are your main challenges regarding HIPAA? What is your current position?

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 25, 2024

Most of the largest hacks targeted vendors who bill, mail, or provide other services for hospitals, doctors, and other health providers. An average of two health data hacks or thefts of at least 500 records were carried out daily last year in the United States, according to an analysis by The HIPAA Journal.

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Compliancy Group

APRIL 22, 2024

However, compliance is often time-consuming and expensive. The American Hospital Association (AHA) has reported that “health systems, hospitals, and post-acute care providers spend nearly $39 billion annually on regulatory compliance tasks.”

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The HIPAA Journal called 2021 “the worst ever year for healthcare data breaches,” and there’s been little sign of a let-up in 2022. Vulnerabilities in software and hardware platforms, some ubiquitous and some specific to healthcare, continued to keep the attack surface of healthcare organizations wide open,” the HIPAA Journal warns.

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Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Federal law requires employers to notify OSHA of a work-related hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye within 24 hours of the incident? HIPAA: Why do healthcare providers need specialized healthcare IT providers instead of regular IT providers? OSHA: TRUE or FALSE? TRUE: Standard Number 1904.39(a)(3)

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The government maintains a balance in healthcare cybersecurity by enforcing regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ) to safeguard patient data, while also providing guidance, resources, and support to help organizations improve their security. Recently, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2024

Hospitals and healthcare companies are typically connected across a broad ecosystem, and an attack on one organization’s system can have a snowball effect; this is exactly what we saw happen with the UnitedHealth/Change Healthcare and Ascension breaches.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2023

For healthcare organizations, the impact is profound: lineage supports data accuracy, builds data trustworthiness, enables data-driven decisions, and facilitates regulatory compliance. A Proactive Approach to Data Incidents Data incidents significantly impact healthcare organizations.

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Physician Credentialing Company

JULY 23, 2024

Understanding Hospital Vendor Credentialing requirements is crucial to carefully evaluate and review all services, ensuring favorable results for healthcare services that directly or indirectly interact with patients. It is essential to screen third-party entities that offer services to healthcare practices to protect patients’ lives.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

SecureFrame connects to your cloud account and audits your infrastructure for chosen compliance (SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA etc) which makes this process much faster. Security tools, including user access provisioning and audit logs, are also essential to protect patient data and ensure regulatory compliance.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

Regulatory Compliance Mastery Of course, HIPAA is the most prevalent regulation healthcare organizations must adhere to, but over the last decade or so, we are seeing an increase of rules related to patient data. Let’s explore the evolution of data protection in the healthcare industry and how the best teams protect it.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by Steven Stone, Head of Rubrik Zero Labs at Rubrik In early August, a ransomware attack disrupted operations across its network of 17 hospitals and more than 165 clinics in four states and forced some to rely on paper records. Regulatory compliance is and likely always will be core to the mission.

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 9, 2023

Healthcare risk management software assists healthcare organizations in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks related to patient safety, regulatory compliance, and care operations. Compliance Management. The software helps organizations stay compliant with complex regulatory requirements and industry standards.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 18, 2024

While some have been slow to adopt new technologies due to concerns over HIPAA regulations and potential risks to patient data, it is possible to strike a balance between innovation and compliance when updating legacy technology. As of 2021, as many as 7 out of 10 hospitals still rely on fax to send and receive health information.

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Medisys Compliance

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Regulatory Compliance: Staying updated with HIPAA regulations, ICD-10 codes, and payer-specific guidelines can be challenging. Billing companies ensure compliance, reducing legal and financial risks. Scalability: As your practice grows, billing needs can become more complex.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2023

These technologies can also be used to develop predictive models for hospital readmissions, disease progression, and patient outcomes, allowing providers to deliver more personalized care and improve outcomes. She has led startup, turnaround and high growth initiatives for industry-leading healthcare delivery teams.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 29, 2023

These solutions also aid in enforcing compliance with regulatory standards such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), minimizing the risk of penalties and legal consequences for non-compliance.

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Compliancy Group

AUGUST 5, 2024

Continuous training ensures that healthcare professionals are up-to-date with the latest knowledge and skills, from safety practices to relevant regulatory compliance , enabling them to provide high-quality care. The healthcare field is constantly changing, with new treatments, technologies, and regulations emerging frequently.

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