Thursday 21 March 2013

Present Your Hospital’s Claims with Greater Accuracy


Practical adviser for ethically optimizing hospital coding and efficiency
Being HIPAA compliant is highly essential for any facility to avoid financial distress and steer clear of legal issues. This goal can be easily accomplished and help you overcome any issues, especially patient privacy.

It’s essential for every employee to have separate username and password. This will help to track each user’s activities and set up an audit trial. Hacking can be avoided if all the modems and other source of communication are unplugged when not in use. Scrutinize each and every activity of your business partners. It is important for you to keep a check on regular visits by the vendor while updating software and be fully informed of whatever the person is doing. Gather complete information when implying HIPAA solutions to ensure all your needs are being covered. It is important to choose your employees carefully. Ensure you have good and trustworthy people on the job to avoid having individual access privileges for each employee. You can do this by assessing them during the interview and conducting timely reviews on a regular basis. Educate your IT department. Train them from time to time and create awareness to help them close any gap or weak areas. Also, placing monitors behind counters so that patients are unable to view or read them helps immensely. Keep checks on unwanted people loitering around back office. Although staff members are acquainted to each other, spotting an unknown person will be easy and it is highly important too.

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