Contract Insights

The Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a crucial regulation with which healthcare organizations and professionals around the world are all too familiar. At the risk of oversimplification for expediency, it is designed to protect sensitive health information from being disclosed without patient knowledge or consent. Central to HIPAA compliance are business associate agreements (BAAs) - contracts that support a foundation of privacy, security, and integrity of patient data as it flows through the various invisible hands of the healthcare ecosystem. The stakes are high for healthcare organizations - for the legal and financial ramifications of business associate contract mismanagement can erode the reputation and stability of a business. As such, let's explore how to make overseeing these complex and critical contracts as smooth and efficient as possible.

Did you miss any of our blog posts from February?  Don't worry; we have outlined each of them for you.  Stay up-to-date with industry topics, real-world case studies, and contract management software and procurement best practices in March by reading the latest CobbleStone^® content.

Mike Gormley, the Sales Department Manager at CobbleStone Software, has been a member of the CobbleStone^® family since January 2018. Recently, we interviewed Mike about his experience at CobbleStone, and he shared some brief insights into his role as well as some great information about upcoming webinars and learning events.

In the minds of legal professionals, the pressure is ON. And yes, you read the title correctly. The vast majority of legal professionals - a whopping 84 percent - experience pressure to simplify their contract processes (according to a recent survey from World CC). From contract creation to renewal, there seems to be something missing. Contract managers face immense stress from outdated contract management processes, misunderstandings, lack of efficiency, and elevated costs (to name a few). In the interest of drilling down deeper, let's thoroughly examine some of the reasons corporate counsel, general counsel, paralegals, legal departments, and others are clamoring for contract simplification.