Hospital Management
Beyond HIPAA: Patient Medical Records and Client Confidentiality in Mental Health
Learn to identify and apply differing and conflicting rules with respect to the specific health care practitioner, the specific health care facility practice, and the emerging rules and regulations for electronic medical records confidentiality, security, and disposition. In addition to these clinical requirements of a specific profession, additional state laws set forth the content and retention of other t..
Breach Response Training
The topic is breaches of the impermissible use or disclosure of protected health information and for state law, personal information. A breach risk assessment is required with 4 questions that must be addressed. We will review the breach risk assessment, identifying a breach, no breach is too small to review and report, and what to do when a major breach (500 records) or more is involved. With a major b..
Care Coordination: An Important Case Management Role for Managing Cost and Length of Stay
In an era of value-based purchasing, this role is more important than ever in managing metrics such as the Efficiency Measure and Readmission Reduction. It is also critical in a bundled payment environment or accountable care organization. Learn how to incorporate this role into your daily routine using best practice strategies.This program will review the elements that most greatly impact cost and length o..
Case Management: Find and Fix Your 2019 Compliance Gaps
As case managers, we must be aware of the myriad of compliance issues that we must adhere to in our daily practice. Never has this been more important to our work as case managers than it is now. Our ability to remain compliant has become an element of audits from accrediting bodies such as the Joint Commission as well as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). It is the right thing to do for ..
Compliance Measures for Case Management Professionals
As case managers, we must be aware of the myriad of compliance issues that we must adhere to in our daily practice. Never has this been more important to our work as case managers then it is now. Our ability to remain compliant has become an element of audits from accrediting bodies such as the Joint Commission as well as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). It is the right thing to do for ..
Compliance Measures for Case Management Professionals in the Acute Care Setting
This program will review the compliance issues that most greatly impact your practice as a case management professional such as the 2-midnight rule, the NOTICE Act, HINNs, The Important Message, and others. Do you have a utilization review committee and is it compliant with the Conditions of Participation for Utilization Review? Are you compliant with the Federal rules for discharge planning? Case managemen..
Compliance with the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard in Healthcare Settings
Healthcare facilities struggle with compliance for the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard, especially with the newer requirements from the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act. This session will be delivered by a former OSHA National Bloodborne Pathogens Coordinator and will give you first-hand experience regarding some of the mistakes that healthcare facilities make that result in citations and fines. It ..
Coronavirus and Influenza
As this promotion reached our website, the Coronavirus is sweeping around the globe. Millions are quarantined in Chinese cities, where untold thousands are infected and the acknowledged death toll is climbing into four figures. Thousands of passengers and crew members are under lockdown on luxury cruise ships off the coasts of Japan and New Jersey. And the first cases have been reported in New York City.Ens..
Data Management, Records Retention, Destruction Considerations and Legal Holds
This webinar will review the basic tenants of Information Governance. We will then bring these theories to a practical level by discussing strategies for maintaining documents and information in today’s electronic work. We will discuss the key components of a good document retention policy. Finally, we will discuss the importance of litigation holds, including how, why and when to implement them to avoid le..
E-Mailing, Texting, and the Use of Personal Devices by Health Care Professionals – HIPAA and Privacy Myths vs Reality
This informative webinar begins with the most basic of questions: Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule permit health care providers to use e-mail to discuss health issues and treatment with their patients?Find out the answer and examine how the privacy rules of HIPAA allow covered entities and health care providers to communicate electronically, such as through e-mail or texting, with their patients and with other h..
False Claims Act (or Whistleblower Act) and Hospital Fraud
A whistleblower or qui tam action can provide financial rewards to individuals who provide information that a company, hospital, or individual has defrauded the government. The primary statutes under which this relief may be sought are the federal and state False Claims Acts (“FCAs”). State and federal governments pay hundreds of billions of dollars each year for pharmaceutical drugs, medical devices, hospi..
Fundamentals in Discharge Planning for RN and Social Work Case Managers
This program will review the current rules and regulations from the Conditions of Participation for discharge planning. We will then discuss the most recent changes from the Medicare program and how they will impact the roles of the RN case manager and the social worker. We will review strategies for safely transitioning your patients across the continuum of care. In addition, we will review how to engage o..
HIPAA and Social Media Violations of HIPAA’s Privacy Requirements
This webinar provides an overview of core privacy requirements of HIPAA. Then, the subject moves to the social media activities of healthcare practitioners. This webinar provides a brief summary of those basic HIPAA privacy protections then goes into detail on the many ways a health care provider may run afoul of the privacy exceptions via the use of social media. This may occur both when a healthcare pract..
HIPAA and Social Media War Stories for Nurses and Other Health Care Professionals
This webinar will cover the following benefits and applications of this material with the start of detailed speaker information to integrate education, training, and experience with detailed course objectives and disclaimers.The webinar will then start with an overview of the core privacy requirements of HIPAA, the basics of which should be well-known and practiced by all health care practitioners. Then, th..
HIPAA and the Administrative Subpoena – How HIPAA Does or Doesn't Protect you When the Government comes Calling for your Patient Records and you are in Trouble
This webinar reviews core privacy requirements of HIPAA then covers in detail the ways state licensure boards and agencies use the authority of state law to cover HIPAA exceptions and gain access to your patient records. This webinar shows how state agencies use state law in concert with HIPAA exceptions to conduct government-lead investigations. These exceptions can also be used by federal agencies in the ..