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Avoiding Scammers Lurking on Social Media Platforms

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently reported that scammers were fraudulently collecting sensitive information and stealing donations by creating and using fake social media platforms, such as Facebook,...

Why You Need to Host Quarterly Corporate Compliance Committee Meetings

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of Inspector General (OIG) highly encourage every healthcare organization to establish a compliance committee that advises your Compliance Officer...

Understanding the Importance of Medical Decision Making

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have been voicing their concerns and seeking public comments regarding the current evaluation and management (E/M) documentation guidelines. CMS understands that...

MyHealthEData Advances with CMS's "Patients Over Paperwork" Initiatives

Recently on August 2nd, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized policies to advance with the MyHealthEData initiative and the CMS Patients Over Paperwork Initiative. The CMS updated...

Instagram and Healthcare

What about Instagram? Instagram is one of the fastest-growing social media platforms, it is estimated that in the United States alone by 2019 there will be an estimated 111 million active users. Of these users,...

OSHA Hopes to Better Protect Personally Identifiable Information

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently announces plans to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to better protect personally identifiable information or...

Thoughts on the AAOE 50th Anniversary Conference

After arriving back to my office from attending a conference planning meeting with the American Association of Orthopaedic Executives (AAOE), at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville. As a member of the Industry...

Facebook

Facebook Last year, Facebook announced they have 2.01 billion monthly users. The daily percentage of users is less but is still an impressive 1.32 billion users that are actively using Facebook daily. What...

To Evacuate or Shelter in Place?

In the event of a disaster natural or otherwise difficult decisions may need to be made without hesitation. One such decision may be whether you should evacuate or "shelter in place." An example of when it may...

CMS Proposes Changes to Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program

It turns out, the change from Advancing Care Information to Promoting Interoperability is part of something much bigger. So much bigger, that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announcement said...