Since there is no requirement in the Model Rules that attorneys practice from a brick-and-mortar office, there have always been lawyers who worked from a virtual law office to save on overhead costs or to maintain flexibility. Of course, the pandemic changed the way everyone works...
Your organization is responsible for maintaining HIPAA compliance whether your employees and healthcare professionals are in the office, working remotely, or providing in-home care for your patient population. Since HIPAA restricts access to PHI whether it is a physical chart on someone’s desk, in transit electronically...
Your company’s compliance strategy needs to assess and mitigate risk while also addressing an ever-increasing slate of complex regulatory rules from competing governmental bodies. Just like the uptick in regulation following the financial crisis of 2007, industry analysts expect new insurance compliance requirements from the pandemic...
Telemedicine has been considered part of the standard of care for most major healthcare systems for years, but the coronavirus pandemic brought new challenges to providing patient care as well as tighter telemedicine documentation guidelines for compliance. In response, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS)...
For many businesses, the rapid transformation to a hybrid workforce meant quick adoption of cloud computing and leaning on desktop as a service (DaaS) solutions to keep employees connected and productive. Even businesses and industries that have always worked in strict compliance and regulatory environments still...
With this post, we really want to wish you and yours a Happy Halloween. While we’re having a bit of fun here, cybersecurity is a very real problem for every business. So below we have scenarios where mistakes in cybersecurity could potentially create nightmarish results. It’s...
Sage 500 is an enterprise resources planning (ERP) solution. Sage 500 is ideal for managing operations, financials, logistics, inventory and more for manufacturing and distribution businesses.While Sage 500 is designed for large enterprises, they offer solutions for businesses of a variety of sizes, industries and...
The outsourced IT services market is worth about $400 billion globally according to a recent study by Capital Counselor news. About 70% of survey respondents say the number one reason they are outsourcing IT is cost reduction, according to the study. But there are other...
The concept of virtual organizations has been around for many years, but in the last year or so, pretty much the entire world has gone virtual and the idea of a virtual organization has become more relevant than ever. In this post we will take...
With the destabilizing effects of the pandemic last year, many organizations experienced the importance of software scalability firsthand. In this post we will look at what scalable software is, why it’s so important and how it works. Defining Software Scalability Software scalability is a measure of how...