Barriers and Benefits of Incident Reporting in Healthcare
Medical errors are a major issue in the U.S., with hundreds of thousands of adverse events linked to preventable harm each year. Everyone agrees incident reporting is [...]
Healthcare AI Compliance and More: This Week’s Healthcare Compliance Developments
This week's compliance landscape covers three developments every compliance officer should understand: a White House AI policy framework that is already reshaping how healthcare organizations govern their [...]
Regulatory Law in Healthcare: What Facilities Are Expected to Manage
Regulatory law in healthcare is woven into everyday operations, whether organizations treat it that way or not. It affects how patient information is handled, how staff are [...]
HIPAA Risk Management Now Under OCR Scrutiny: This Week’s Healthcare Compliance Developments
Three significant developments are shaping the healthcare compliance landscape this week: OCR is broadening its HIPAA enforcement focus to include risk management, the DOJ has resolved one [...]
OIG Screening and Automated Healthcare Exclusion Monitoring
Healthcare organizations that participate in Medicare, Medicaid, or other federally funded programs take on a critical obligation: to ensure that no excluded individual or entity plays any [...]
Healthcare Compliance Audit Checklist
Healthcare compliance audits have become a major burden for providers, clinics, and practices of all sizes. Between federal standards like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [...]
Risk Management in the Hospital: Modern Strategies to Improve Patient Safety and Quality
Effective risk management in the hospital environment has evolved into a core pillar of healthcare quality, patient safety, and regulatory compliance. As hospitals face rising patient acuity, [...]
Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment Liability Now Reaches Everyone in the Room
Healthcare compliance changes fast, and without a keen eye, you’re likely to miss something that will come back to bite you. If you can’t afford that, then [...]
OrthopedicsNY’s $500,000 Data Breach
In December 2025, the New York Attorney General announced a $500,000 settlement with OrthopedicsNY, LLP — an orthopedic medicine and surgery practice serving patients across New York's [...]
Healthcare Incident Management: Building a Program That Works
If you have thought 'We don't have many incident reports' before, that is not necessarily a success story. It could be a warning sign. It sounds counterintuitive, [...]
