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HIPAA-HITECH: Where Are We Today And Where Are We Headed Tomorrow?
Getting to HIPAA compliance takes work, but work of a careful, thoughtful type. Instead of using an “all or nothing” shotgun approach, focusing effort in specific ways, making changes that are “evolutionary, not revolutionary”, and really knowing what constitutes HIPAA compliance is the best way to attain it. In some ways, it is similar to any compliance effort, while in other ways it is quite different. Th..
Providing Effective Feedback: A Guide for Managers and Supervisors
Employee feedback is an incredibly powerful tool. When offered properly, it has the ability to grow and develop the people in your organization, improve levels of trust and communication, and strengthen bonds between employees and managers. Unfortunately, feedback is often ignored or omitted entirely to avoid discomfort for both managers and employees.Areas Covered What is employee feedback and why feedback..
Design Controls for Medical Devices under a Quality Management System
Design controls are a discipline that everyone in the medical device industry have to come to grips with. It encompasses systems engineering, risk management, mechanical/electrical/software design, usability engineering, and testing (verification and validation). The documentation of these activities is critical to both develop a good product but also to ensure a smooth regulatory clearance.Areas CoveredBac..
Predictive Accounting: Driver-Based Budgeting and Rolling Financial Forecasts
This presentation involves the shift from historical reporting to predictive costing such as capacity-sensitive driver-based rolling financial forecasts, what-if analysis, marginal cost analysis (e.g pricing), and target costing for new products and services.The annual budgeting process is being criticized as obsolete soon after it is published, prone to gamesmanship, cumbersome to consolidate cost center s..
Production Control Principles and Practices
This program is a introduction to the tools needed to perform Production Control principles/practices. It will explain the resources needed to accomplish the schedules and budgetary limits established for satisfying customer needs.Understanding the different operating environments (Engineer to Order, Make to Order, Make to Stock, and others) will provide the responsible leadership and operating personnel wi..
Seeing the Waste: Henry Ford's Lean Success Secret
Enormous waste (muda) can hide in plain sight for years or even longer because everybody in the workplace takes it for granted, and is used to living with it or working around it. This waste can however consist of up to 95 percent of the labor, and a large portion of materials and energy as well. Henry Ford, whose success speaks for itself, identified three key performance indicators (KPIs) for waste that e..
Web Writing For Technical Writers
The webinar focuses on how Technical Writers create content for websites. On the surface, this seems simple, almost self-explanatory. The subject can be quite complex. Technical writers must research the subject matter, organize the information collected, and present it to the Target Audience. The Target Audience can be quite diverse and not easily characterized. The Target Audience for a newsletter is noth..
Data Privacy: California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
During this webinar, in addition to learning about the California privacy rules, we will discuss the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in the US and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that is in effect to protect citizens’ personal data when they reside in the European Union (EU). We will compare and contrast these with the CPRA, providing specific requirements and how..
Estimating Seasonal Borrowing Needs and Ability to Repay
One of the most basic analytical and underwriting tools a banker must have is the ability to determine whether a borrower can repay its short-term borrowings based on the financial information available.First, the session will explain the interrelationships among revenue projections, the expenses needed to support seasonal sales growth as well as the working capital assets, fixed assets, and liabilities nec..
Fraud: Creating a Fraud program and Implementing It For Your Institution
Management has a responsibility to be familiar with and alert to the types of fraud that might occur in their area and to put in place effective controls to avoid such occurrences. Management should also provide support to and work with the Internal Audit Division, other areas in a financial institution by reporting and investigation of dishonest or fraudulent activity, including the prosecution of offender..
Improving Organizational Performance through Enhanced Employee Engagement
Businesses today are striving to generate greater productivity, quality, customer satisfaction and profitability with fewer employees. And Employee Engagement is a proven method for doing just that. Engaged employees: Expend discretionary effort doing more than they are askedAre motivated toward the organization’s successWork the hardest, stay the longest, and perform to their capabilitiesEmployee Engagemen..
Pregnancy Protections Regulations in the Workplace for 2024
Pregnancy protection and accommodation are in the news. In April 2024, the EEOC issued its Final Rule some 400 pages on the implementation of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). Under PWFA, employers may have to temporarily suspend the essential functions of a job to accommodate an employee’s quest for coverage. Under the rule, employers will have to allow employees and applicants to take time off and..
Risk Management and Oversight for Boards
The corporate board of directors is a group of well-meaning, part-time amateurs, trying to monitor, control, and assure the work of the full-time professional managers who actually run the corporation. That means at best, your board will be several steps behind in having an accurate, current, complete insight into the company, its operations, its finances, and its dangers. At worst, you could, sometime in t..
Strengthening Maturity and Right Behavior Harmlessly
Challenged by poor behavior in others, at work, at home, in school, or in society? Tired of harshness AND permissiveness as the only conventional choices in reaction to it? Consider: What do I do, think, and say when people annoy and irritate me, anger and provoke me, shock and hurt me, cause me to worry or pity them, or insult and invalidate me? Am looking for ways to gain cooperation with adults and child..
Excel ChatGPT Data Management Charting Protection and Formulas
Gain easy-to-understand and practical “hands-on” knowledge of ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence (AI) with a focus on significantly enhancing capabilities in Microsoft Excel.Harness the awesome power of AI to take Excel to a new level and boost your efficiency, working smarter and faster.Mastering AI is now a fundamental and highly marketable skill set in Excel and is vital in a wide range of professions a..