This week’s updates include updates to the Program Integrity Manual and release of three hospital surveyor worksheets. Click the link above to read more about this week’s updates.
This week’s updates include EMTALA requirements related to Ebola and updated to the NCCI manual. Click the link above to read more about this week’s updates.
The intent of quality and safety programs is to evaluate and monitor performance and to improve results. Organizations develop annual quality and safety plans with measurable objectives that departments adopt and include as integral aspects of their performance improvement plans.
In my experience, most organizations in the health-care industry?both covered entities and business associates?have taken the steps to put policies, business processes, and training programs in place to help ensure compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule. Still, there's a gaping hole in many healthcare compliance and security programs: a lack of technical security testing of Web applications, mobile applications, and network systems.
