What Amazon’s health care model won’t look like? Amazon.
Are apps and direct-to-consumer models in the forecast for health care delivery? What can we glean from Amazon and other innovators? What’s possible today?
The Shift to Value-based Reimbursement (VBR) | Highlights from Georgia HIMSS 2018 conference
Enormous complexities of the healthcare system make it impossible for a single approach like VBR to “tame the cost beast.” Here are interlocking issues.
Register to hear “Employee and Insider Data Breaches: Vulnerability or Threat Vector?” at Physicians and Hospitals Law Institute 2019
Join Barry Herrin, author, attorney and founder of Herrin Health Law, as he presents “Employee and Insider Data Breaches: Vulnerability or Threat Vector?” at Physicians and Hospitals Law Institute Feb. 4 and 5, 2019.
Healthcare attorney Barry Herrin selected as Subject Matter Expert by FBI-vetted InfraGard National Members Alliance
InfraGard National Members Alliance, a nonprofit alliance of individuals in the private sector and FBI field offices across the United States, selected Barry Herrin, CHPS, FAHIMA, FHIMSS, FACHE, as a Subject Matter Expert.
HIM and Health IT Considerations for Advanced Payment Model Contracts
Learn what alternative payment model (APM) activities entail and what to measure and benchmark. As published in the Journal of AHIMA, July to August 2018.
Video: Broadening hospital security technology with risk management frameworks
Instead of spending more money on security technology, hospitals should consider taking a broader scope of people and processes, such as implementing risk management frameworks (like NIST) and partnering with external threat groups, such as InfoGuard and the FBI. (Video: 9 min.)
The law firm business associate: New liabilities create conflicts of interest
HIPAA has expanded liability for business associates and their subcontractors. Law firms are business associates and subcontractors to many covered-entity clients. In these roles, law firms may now be held directly liable for HIPAA compliance failures.
Tips for Alternative Payment Model (APM) Contract Administration and Negotiation
A true APM offering creates clinical and financial integration that helps with federal and state antitrust compliance, redundant care, positive clinical outcomes, and cost reduction. Consider these changes in operations and thought processes as your organization transitions from fee-for-service to APM reimbursement.
Cybersecurity Risk in Health Care
Learn the current state of healthcare data privacy and security, legal issues that need attention, risks of the growing use of remote technologies, health and wearable technology, and finally cybersecurity insurance as a way to mitigate the financial costs of breach.
Respond to Federal Recoupment Initiatives by Improving Clinical Documentation
The concept of “low-hanging fruit” is a motivational factor in Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) audits. But just because you have a code doesn’t mean it’s covered. Not knowing the rules can land you in jail.