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Recently, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued one serious and one other than serious violation to a residential health care facility for exposing employees to hazards related to workplace... Read More

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced a final rule to update health care facilities' fire protection guidelines to improve protections for all Medicare beneficiaries in facilities... Read More

It is a common practice for new users to be assigned a simple, easy-to-remember password at the time of employment, or when a user is assigned a new application. For example, a new user may be assigned a default... Read More

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently issued a final rule to modernize injury data collection to better inform workers, employers, the public, and OSHA about... Read More

Wearable Medical Devices Safe or Sorry? Wearable device shipments will increase from 2.5 million Units in 2016 to 97.6 million by 2021 Wearable medical devices are rising in popularity. The next few years could see... Read More

View the webinarHere June 2016 HCP Compliance Webinar OSHA Program Updates By now you've probably heard that the new HazCom standard has been revised to align with the Globally Harmonized System, or GHS. If we just... Read More

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued a final rule to advance health equity and reduce health care disparities. According to HHS, under the final rule individuals are protected from... Read More

As promised, Phase 2 of OCR's audit program is underway. If you receive a request from OCR to verify contact information, a request to complete a screening questionnaire, or are actually selected for the audit, a... Read More

Once a breach has been discovered and defined Here are steps you should take to help to ease your mind. The breach must now be "logged" just right If you want to sleep at night. It's not really all... Read More

During our most recent webinar Business Associates 101: Everything you need to know about Business Associates and HIPAA Compliance Programs we received 10 questions during our Q and A session. Below are the... Read More