Healthcare Compliance

What are new developments in HIPAA compliance for physician practices and small rural faciltiies?

Hospitals and health systems can avoid costly security breaches by following the advice of industry experts.

Providers require a strategy to safeguard themselves against the growing threat of cyberattacks that could compromise the security of protected health information and even put patients’ health at risk.

Hospitals and health systems are more vulnerable than ever to cyberattacks and must take action to protect themselves.

Hospital IT departments and leaders must work together to ensure the security of networked medical devices.

Hospitals can develop effective policies by developing a “policy on policies,” taking into consideration content guidelines, making policies easily accessible by all staff, and considering how staff will interpret the policy language.

Sharing patient information is a sensitive matter, particularly where compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is concerned. 

Value-based purchasing and reduction of readmissions and hospital-acquired conditions are coming into focus for hospitals thanks to Medicare initiatives.

This article describes five steps FASB has outlined for entities to follow to prepare for implementation and achieve the objectives of the new standard ASU 2014-09 for recognizing revenue. 

Reporting charity care is an important means for healthcare organizations to communicate the benefits that they are providing to their communities.