How Hospitals Are Handling Compliance In A Resource-Constrained Environment
By Nick Culburtson CEO of Protenus, leveraging AI to reduce risk and improve patient trust for healthcare systems across North America. This past year, healthcare…
Category: Compliance Training
Merit Medical to Pay $18 Million Over False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Violations
By Thomas Sullivan In mid-October 2020, Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (MMSI) agreed to pay $18 million to resolve allegations that the company violated the False…
Coronavirus COVID-19 ICD-10 Coding FREE Cheat Sheet Download Included
by Belinda Holmes In an effort to help expedite claim submission and public reporting, we have created a cheat sheet for the most common novel…
Millions of Americans’ Medical Images and Data Are Available on the Internet. Anyone Can Take a Peek.
This could be a scary reality for your practice. Get Meducated! Hundreds of computer servers worldwide that store patient X-rays and MRIs are so insecure…
Rude Surgeons May Have Worse Patient Outcomes : Shots – Health News : NPR
Interesting… Surgeon’s behaviors can be linked to complications.With MyMeducator, our unique courses will educate your employees so that your workplace can be a healthy environment…
NIST Releases Draft Mobile Device Security Guidance for Corporately-Owned Personally-Enabled Devices
Check this out! Mobile devices introduce a unique risk for organizations. The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE)…
Google and University of Chicago face lawsuit over shared patient data
Wow! This is scary. We wouldn’t want this to happen to your practice. Get Meducated! The lawsuit says the university included timestamps and doctors notes…
The Lack of an Adequate HIPAA Security Risk Assessment is a Common and Costly Mistake by Healthcare Providers: What Providers Can Do Now
What Providers Can Do Now A missing HIPAA Security Risk Assessment (SRA) is the top reason medical offices get tripped up in HIPAA and MIPS…
Health System paid $14.7 million to settle healthcare fraud allegations
Did you know billions of taxpayer dollars are spent funding false Medicare claims each year? Audit vendors and the DOJ use data analysis from claims…
Quest Diagnostics says 12 million patients may have had their personal information exposed
It is apparent now more than ever, the urgency of making sure everyone touching your patient information is HIPAA certified and technologically aware. Quest Diagnostics…