Ontario Systems: Helping Healthcare Organizations Realize the Benefits of an Accountable Collections Team
Steve Scibetta, vice president and general manager at Ontario Systems, offers strategies for optimizing the revenue cycle, including employing supportive accounts receivable technology and building an accountable collections team.
University of Rochester: Using telemedicine to reach more patients with Parkinson’s disease
An academic medical center’s efforts to bring telemedicine to patients with Parkinson’s disease has reduced costs and improved outcomes.
Evolving compliance risks that should be on your radar
Today’s healthcare organizations face evolving compliance risks that require multidimensional compliance programs focused on promoting greater coordination among all an organization’s functional areas.
Small practices lack support personnel for frail elderly patients
Despite recommendations for practices to add support personnel to coordinate the care of their frail elderly patients, few small, independent practices employ such staff, new research found.
Mandates related to pricing, Medicare participation lead hospital concerns over healthcare IT proposed rules
Hospitals supported many of the transparency goals of two proposed healthcare IT rules, but two areas drew sharp concerns.
How to avoid the devastating consequences of HIPAA noncompliance
The potential costs of being found noncompliant with HIPAA are too great for a healthcare provider organization not to have in place a compliance program designed to help safeguard patients’ protected health information.
An effective healthcare real estate compliance program: critical to health system success
Physician real estate agreements are an important focus of a compliance strategy.
5 steps to becoming HIPAA compliant
Healthcare organizations that qualify as HIPAA covered entities should take five steps when developing a compliance program designed to meet their obligation under HIPAA to safeguard patients’ protected health information.
Signs and symptoms to watch for in evolving compliance areas
Five evolving areas for compliance require attention from a hospital’s or health system’s compliance program: quality of care, patient abuse, quality reporting, emergency preparedness and case management.
The ROI of HIPAA Compliance
Marty Puranik describes the financial benefits of compliance.