Health and Environment Training Classes

Overview: There's the famous saying, "A Picture is worth a thousand words". Well, that is very true in Microsoft Excel. A chart can really show the meaning of large amounts of data much better than looking at the actual data can. This webinar will be all about creating and managing different types of charts in Excel. Everybody at work is always looking for charts to represent the data. Excel has excellent charting capabilities. In this webinar, you will learn how to create charts from the data, how to customize those charts, how to change existing charts, different types of charts, and to copy and Excel chart into Word and PowerPoint, and other great chart topics. We will start at the basics and build up to the more complex charts, like combo charts.

Overview: CAPA and the related actions of Failure Investigation and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a major tool in product complaint, non-conformance, and OOS failure investigations, and hazard analysis / risk management and mitigation activities. A compliant CAPA system is required to to "close-the-loop" complaints, non-conformances, out-of specification conditions, and must also include proper impact analysis / actions. As such CAPA is a major element of cGMP compliance (one of the four key inputs of QSIT, the FDA's Quality Systems Inspection Technique), and is also a key source of regulatory problems.

Overview: As a basic-level user of Microsoft Office, you'd love to reduce the number of "hair-tearing-out" moments. You'd love to be able to do things faster so you can go home on time. You'd love to be seen as an "Office Hero" in your organization. As an added bonus, because Microsoft Office is so widely used across the globe, having good-to-excellent skills means you'll be more marketable in today’s highly competitive job market!

Overview: In this session Mr. Wolfe will provide an overview of the Stark Law, including its recent changes. He will also discuss best practices for auditing physician compensation arrangements on behalf of health systems, hospitals, medical groups and physician practices. The webinar will focus on regulatory requirements, key provisions, valuation considerations and potential pitfalls that should be avoided.

Overview: This webinar will review the sections of the HIPAA privacy rule that under the federal emergency for COVID-19 declared in March will be under a waiver issued by the OCR and penalties will be waived. HIPAA, as a whole, is still being monitored however and the webinar will also include those areas that are still being enforced and what you need know, whether you are a covered entity or a business associate.

This program allows the mental health care practitioner to avoid sanctions and to defend against legal actions which may result in ruinous practice and career consequences for the mental health practitioner due to issues of client confidentiality, and overview of patient medical record keeping, including electronic records, will provide the basic framework to understand the emerging issues in client confidentiality.

Overview: In this session Mr. Wolfe will provide practical guidance regarding physician employment contracts,including key regulatory requirements, key provisions and common compensation and common compensation models. Why you should Attend: Today the health care industry is seeing unprecedented levels of physician employment. This webinar will discuss key business, legal and compensation issues that should be considered when drafting and negotiating physician employment agreements.

Overview: This lesson is going to get back to the basics using multiple real-life scenarios and "what if's". My goal is to make this very confusing and not well explained law easy to understand for the typical staff member. I will uncover myths versus reality as it relates to this enigmatic law based on over 1000 risk assessments performed as well as years of experience in dealing directly with the Office of Civil Rights HIPAA auditors.

Overview: In this session Mr. Wolfe will provide an overview of the Stark Law, including its recent changes. He will also discuss best practices for auditing physician compensation arrangements on behalf of health systems, hospitals, medical groups and physician practices. The webinar will focus on regulatory requirements, key provisions, valuation considerations and potential pitfalls that should be avoided.

Overview: This webinar will review the sections of the HIPAA privacy rule that under the federal emergency for COVID-19 declared in March will be under a waiver issued by the OCR and penalties will be waived. HIPAA, as a whole, is still being monitored however and the webinar will also include those areas that are still being enforced and what you need know, whether you are a covered entity or a business associate.

This program allows the mental health care practitioner to avoid sanctions and to defend against legal actions which may result in ruinous practice and career consequences for the mental health practitioner due to issues of client confidentiality, and overview of patient medical record keeping, including electronic records, will provide the basic framework to understand the emerging issues in client confidentiality.

If you go "off label" with advertising and promotion, FDA's hammer can hit hard and seemingly out of the blue. Advertising and promotion for devices is weak and lacks legal clarity. For drugs, the regulations are prescriptive and guidance documents clamp down on nuances. Marketing and regulatory affairs departments must collaborate to avoid the hammer and penalties of FDA. The roadblock, however is that marketing managers and regulatory affairs managers rarely reach common ground and are loathe to even consult with each other.

The Microbiology online course provides fundamental knowledge of microbiology as it relates medical practice. Students will learn practical applications, infection prevention, and microbiological diseases related to the major body systems.

Overview This seminar provides Professionals working in this area with: A thorough understanding of the complexities involved Covers all the relevant regulations and guidelines Gives real life examples of how to register and maintain various types of combination products Interfaces: Change Management and LCM Compliant safety reporting for combination products Documentation requirements and interfacing

Overview This 6-hour seminar will be addressing how practice/business managers (or compliance offers) need to get their HIPAA house in order before the imminent audits occur. It will also address major changes under the Omnibus Rule and any other applicable updates for 2018. Areas also covered will be texting, email, encryption, medical messaging, voice data and risk factors as they relate to IT. The primary goal is to ensure everyone is well educated on what is myth and what is reality with this law, there is so much misleading information regarding the do's and don'ts with HIPAA - I want to add clarity for compliance officers and what you guys need to do and how to best implement your HIPAA program based on over 18 years of personal experience working with Federal auditors, state auditors, and corporate auditors.

Gaps, incorrect or incomplete implementation of safety functionality can delay or make the certification/approval of medical products impossible. Most activities cannot be retroactively performed since they are closely linked into the development lifecycle. Diligent, complete and correct implementation of risk management from the start of product development is therefore imperative. This course will introduce all necessary steps to design, implement and test critical medical devices in a regulatory compliant environment. This course will additionally address the software risk management and the resulting interfaces to device level risk management.

This 6-hour seminar will cover the latest SAMHSA and HIPAA updates which were released in January 2018 and December of 2017 respectively, and also cover multiple scenarios and FAQ’s relating to Substance Abuse Records, Mental Health Records, Alcohol Abuse Records, and the proper ways to secure this information and/or release this information.

This virtual seminar will address those project management critical tasks within each project phase that must be performed flawlessly for effective project execution to occur and will provide the foundation and direction for future study of the subject.

Overview: There is a simple 3 step HIPAA "safe harbor" that frees Covered Entities and Business Associates from any responsibility or liability for unauthorized access to Protected Health Information (PHI) in unencrypted emails and text messages during transmission and after receipt by the patient. Why you should Attend: Patient Engagement is a cornerstone of MACRA. Communication technology offers indispensable patient engagement tools. Secure patient portals are available. So are encrypted text message and email products. But patients overwhelmingly choose non-secure communication tools like text messaging and email. Appointment reminders, healthcare instructions, patient satisfaction surveys, health and wellness newsletters and recall reminders are just a few patient engagement tools sent electronically by regular (unencrypted) email and text messaging. The HIPAA Rules for sending Protected Health Information (PHI) by unencrypted electronic transmission are clear - and new.

Overview: Incident-to coding for your non-physician practitioners (NPPs) services in conjunction with a supervising physician continues to generate confusion- and 2019 will be no exception. So, it's no surprise that these claims generate higher than average denials, and lead to hefty penalties for physician practices ranging from $163K to $1.5 million - but they don't have to. Obviously, being paid 100% vs. 85% for your NPPs services is the goal. However, correctly maneuvering through complex incident-to guidelines so you can avoid audits and fines is anything but easy. That's where expert coder, Rhonda Granja, B.S., CMC, CMOM, CMA, CPC, comes in. Rhonda has put together a 60-minute training session to help you cut through the confusion of these difficult coding situations.