Overview: This webinar will provide an outline and guide of how employers and managers should effectively deal with an OSHA Inspection, whether it is planned or a surprise. The program will also remind employers of their rights and obligations under OSHA regulations, as well as what can happen as a result of an inspection whose results are less than adequate. Why should you attend: All employers need to be aware of how to handle an OSHA Inspec...

Overview: This lesson will be addressing what staff members and managers in a medical practice needs to do to get its HIPAA house in order before the imminent audits occur. It will also address major changes under the Omnibus Rule and any other applicable updates for 2015. There are an enormous amount of issues and risks for covered entities and business associates under Omnibus, first and foremost being the Feds have and increased budget and...

Overview: Most disciplinary policies are progressive. A progressive policy applies increasingly more severe sanctions to additional incidents of bad behavior. It is very important that the organized medical staff have a disruptive practitioner policy. This webinar will discuss the development of such a policy, including what it should include, and how it should be implemented. It is also important to understand what constitutes disruptive beha...

Overview: Health care practitioners and other licensed professionals work in today's diverse, fast-changing, multidisciplinary environment. All licensed professions have higher rates of drug abuse, alcohol abuse, and mental health issues. Yet each individual profession has a unique, though similar, state laws which govern how state licensing agencies take action against the professional so as to protect the public. The state's authority and po...

Overview: In this webinar, we will look the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act and go over requirements for hospitals under the law. There is much to do for a hospital to be compliant with the law, and discuss what is and is not a violation. We will also look at investigating an EMTALA event and what is required. Why should you attend: Many people, even individuals who work in an Emergency Department have misconceptions about EMT...

Overview: This lesson will be addressing how practice managers (or compliance offers) need to get their HIPAA house in order before the imminent audits occur. It will also address major changes under the Omnibus Rule and any other applicable updates for 2015. There are an enormous amount of issues and risks for covered entities and business associates under Omnibus, first and foremost being the Feds have and increased budget and enforcement ab...

Overview: The webinar will concentrate on topics that HHS has announced will be the focus of the first round of "desk audits". They reflect significant areas of non-compliance revealed in the 2012 pilot audits and HHS HIPAA violation investigations concluded by Resolution Agreements and Corrective Action Plans. They include: HIPAA Risk Analysis Risk Management based on Risk Analysis Breach Notification Notice of Privacy Practices (for Covered...

Overview: Reliance on the use of contractors has increased dramatically over recent years in most employment sectors. Organizations are increasingly concentrating on core activities and operations and are taking on contract staff for chore activities. Many organizations, for example, make use of contract cleaning staff in place of their own cleaning operatives. Many organizations also take advantage of the increased flexibility with respect to...

Overview: This session will focus on the rights of individuals to communicate in the manner they desire, and how a medical office can decide what is an acceptable process for communications with individuals. The session will explain how to discuss communications options with individuals so that you can best meet their needs and desires, while preserving their rights under the rules. With the new HIPAA random audit program now getting under way...

Overview: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is an ongoing quality improvement process that is carried out in healthcare organizations by a multidisciplinary team. Unlike root cause analysis (RCA), which is carried out retrospectively in response to a sentinel event, FMEA is a proactive process that acknowledges that errors are inevitable and predictable. It anticipates errors and designs a system that will minimize their impact. FMEA mi...