Security Officers or Compliance Officers have their task cut out when it comes to HIPAA implementation. With the changes taking place at the Health and Human Services (HHS) in relation to HIPAA enforcement; both Covered Entities and Business Associates need to insulate themselves from being vulnerable to audit risk. Any small letup will allow individuals whose PHI has been wrongfully disclosed due to bad IT or internal…
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Added by Roger Steven on October 30, 2017 at 7:50am —
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Geology is among the many branches of science in which compositional data (CoDa) arise naturally. In branches such as geochemistry, compositional data seem to occur typically, when one normalizes raw data or when one obtains the output from a constrained estimation procedure, such as percentages, ppm, ppb, molar concentrations,…
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Added by Adam Fleming on October 27, 2017 at 6:07am —
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Of late, the FDA and the Customs and Border Patrol Service (CBP) have become increasingly agile, smart, sophisticated and demanding when it comes to the submission of information and adherence to government procedures from importing firms. The FDA and the CBP can delay, detain or refuse shipments of firms do not properly execute an…
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Added by John Robinson on October 23, 2017 at 6:24am —
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Today, we live in an era of customization. Increasingly, customers can modify a product’s appearance, features, or content according to their unique needs or desires. Often, even the news we see in our newsfeeds is customized based off our preferences.
Why, then, are so many aspects of the health care industry still one-size-fits-all?
As doctors, we’ve seen firsthand how this can negatively impact patients who require more individualized care. One particular example…
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Added by John Robinson on October 19, 2017 at 6:02am —
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As health information grows, sharing it among healthcare providers and researchers is necessary for providing and advancing healthcare services and healthcare research. But the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 severely limits how Protected Health Information (PHI) can be shared. It also has restrictions regarding how to protect it…
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Added by Roger Steven on October 13, 2017 at 7:42am —
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Microsoft Excel can be used to carry out a number of functions such as sorting, filtering, and subtotal to manage large lists of data. Yet, its MS Excel PivotTable is a very useful feature when it comes to analyzing all that data and doing it quickly. Its use is all the more pronounced when the user is required to quickly create a compact summary report (based on lots of data) without having to write complex formulas or rely on lengthy…
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Added by Adam Fleming on October 12, 2017 at 6:40am —
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What if your employer asked you to implant a microchip under your skin to help them keep track of you?
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Added by John Robinson on October 4, 2017 at 6:41am —
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Internal fraud, by which people who work for an organization are themselves involved in fraud, is a serious issue for businesses. This kind of fraud is very insidious, as it is stealthy and is almost impossible to detect. Accounts Payable, a core component of most organizations, is one of the primary areas of fraud. This AP fraud is something organizations don’t seem to be precluded from, no matter what the nature of their business or its size.
Yet, learning to…
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Added by Adam Fleming on September 26, 2017 at 6:23am —
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The introduction of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) has certainly brought about a major change in the way healthcare is administered in this vast country.
EHR's have evolved in a big way from the time they first came to be used in a moderate way in the healthcare industry a few decades ago. From then on, although the push towards making all health records online has been on -and the US economy saves close to $80 billion a year on paper and other aspects -the rate of penetration of…
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Added by Roger Steven on September 21, 2017 at 7:25am —
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Food technology has been growing at a quick pace, having come under the influence of the twin paradigms of the late 20th century, technology and globalization. As populations keep moving from one part of the world to another in the millions; it is natural that they get influenced by the food behavior of the place to which they move, while also bringing their own influences into it.
It is not just with the itinerant population that food service and movement are paired and…
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Added by Roger Steven on September 11, 2017 at 7:20am —
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Earlier this year, Gartner released a forecast for the Internet of Things (IoT)predicting that 8.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2017 and that total spending on endpoints and services will reach almost $2 trillion this year. This forecast is certainly encouraging, but due to the prevalence and influence of the Internet of Things in almost all business arenas, it’s not…
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Added by John Robinson on September 6, 2017 at 6:53am —
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Most pharmaceutical biofilms, especially those in water systems, suffer from one major flaw: misconceptions. Strict and rigid rules for design and operations, especially when they are built on…
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Added by John Robinson on September 4, 2017 at 6:34am —
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Medical device training courses for just $10. This is not something you get to hear all that often. Or, is it some kind of joke that is being made to entice the regulatory professional in the medical devices arena? Well, none of these thoughts is true. Medical device training courses for just $10 is a very real offer from GlobalCompliancePanel, a leading provider of…
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Added by John Robinson on August 29, 2017 at 6:50am —
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Used to paying over $250 for a high quality healthcare webinar from a leading expert on the topic from a reputable provider of professional trainings? Let us change your habit! You no longer have to pay this much. So, how much do you think you need to be paying for top healthcare webinars? $200? $150? $100? None of these. All that you have to pay for a top healthcare…
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Added by John Robinson on August 28, 2017 at 6:24am —
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Corporate revenue account fraud and account manipulation are serious issues for businesses in many parts of the world today. Although legislations such as Sarbanes Oxley have been passed with the intention of making corporates more accountable; corporate accounting is still vulnerable to manipulation and fraud. A company’s financial statement is a primary area in which a fraud can happen.
A financial statement is the elementary piece of documentation which reflects a…
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Added by Adam Fleming on August 22, 2017 at 5:28am —
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With Obamacare firmly in the crosshairs of Republican lawmakers, the debate around U.S. healthcare is at a fever pitch.
While there is no shortage of opinions on the best route forward, the timeliness of the debate also gives us an interesting chance to dive into some of the numbers around healthcare – namely how people even get coverage in the first place.
How Americans get healthcare
The following infographic shows a breakdown of how…
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Added by John Robinson on August 9, 2017 at 5:59am —
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Software as a Service, SaaS is a method of delivering applications over the Internet. This small definition just about summarizes the core of SaaS: It provides Software as a Service using just the Internet. SaaS applications go by different nomenclatures such as on-demand software, hosted software, or web-based software.
SaaS is a fundamentally different method of delivering applications, because when a client chooses SaaS;…
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Added by John Robinson on August 2, 2017 at 6:50am —
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Mastering MS Excel formulas and functions can make a miracle out of this program. When used optimally, MS Excel can be a wonderful tool for carrying out umpteen functions and optimizing work related to a number of departments. For example, the Accounts Department can do a number of important functions such as loan repayment calculation, generating a profit and loss statement, solve complex mathematical and engineering problems, and carry out anything that involves addition, subtraction,…
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Added by Adam Fleming on August 2, 2017 at 5:35am —
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Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) is an important system aimed at bringing down the risk of safety hazards found in food consumed all over the world. It is an internationally recognized system. When it was enacted in January 2011 as part of the FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act; it was considered a very sweeping piece of legislation for the food industry.
Identification and control of…
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Added by Adam Fleming on August 1, 2017 at 5:39am —
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A number of reasons make cultivation of the art of effective legal writing skills for FDA submissions important. Documents that are submitted to the FDA are…
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Added by John Robinson on July 31, 2017 at 6:28am —
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