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.
Managing HIPAA Business Associate Agreements: The Ultimate Guide
By Sean Heck on 03/12/24
What Is Contract Management in Healthcare?
By Sean Heck on 07/17/23
What is contract management in the context of the healthcare industry? What steps, tasks, and requirements are involved? What does your organization need to do to maintain proper healthcare contract management processes? What tools can your organization use to centralize and streamline healthcare contract management?
Read on to discover how to take advantage of contract management in healthcare with leading contract management software.
6 Healthcare Contract Management Tools for Stronger Contracts
By Joshua Hansen on 04/12/23
Healthcare contract management relying on manual processes can reduce efficiency for healthcare contract stakeholders, decrease revenue, and increase liability. Contract lifecycle management bottlenecks can decrease the efficiency of resources, compromise contract security, and disorganize crucial data. Read on to learn how to leverage six healthcare contract management software tools for stronger contracts.
Taking on Healthcare Contract Management During the COVID Crisis
By Sean Heck on 11/4/20
Manual healthcare contract management processes can increase cost and liability, leak and decrease revenue, and bring about negative patient and personnel experiences. Outdated strategies can prevent a seamless contract lifecycle, compliance, the best use of time and resources, unified and secured documents, efficiently and accurately entered data, and the management of contracts of varying value and complexity. Luckily, future-minded contract lifecycle management software can help. Here’s how.