“The achievement of a HITRUST Risk-based Two-year Certification provides reliable assurances that Chapters Health System is taking information risk management and compliance seriously,” said Vincent Bennekers, vice president of quality, HITRUST.

TEMPLE TERRACE, Fla. (PRWEB)
November 15, 2022

Chapters Health System, one of the nation’s premier not-for-profit, community-based healthcare organizations, today announced the Chapters Health CareCentrium Environment, hosted in the Flexential Data Center located in Tampa, FL, has earned certified status for information security by HITRUST.

HITRUST Risk-based 2-year certified status confirms Chapters Health’s hospice and home health affiliates meet key regulations and industry-defined requirements and appropriately manage risk. The achievement elevates Chapters Health into exclusive group of organizations worldwide that have earned this certification. By including federal and state regulations, standards, and frameworks, and incorporating a risk-based approach, the HITRUST Assurance Program helps organizations address security and data protections challenges through a comprehensive and flexible framework of prescriptive and scalable security controls.

“Healthcare organizations have a duty to meet complex compliance, privacy, and risk management requirements that include technical and process elements contained in frameworks such as NIST and ISO,” said Mike Parkin, director, IT security CISO, Chapters Health System. “As a leader in our space, we are pleased to demonstrate to our patients, families and partners our dedication to the highest standards for data protection and information security by achieving the HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year Certification.”

“In today’s ever-changing threat landscape, HITRUST is continually innovating to find new and creative approaches to address challenges,” said Jeremy Huval, chief innovation officer, HITRUST. “Chapters Health System’s HITRUST Risk-based 2-year Certification is evidence that they are at the forefront of industry best practices for information risk management and compliance.”

About Chapters Health System

As a progressive leader and premier health system, Chapters Health System is dedicated to delivering innovative home health, palliative and hospice care along with durable medical equipment and pharmacy services. Since 1983 as a community-based, not-for-profit organization, Chapters Health has provided choices, education and guidance through its managed affiliates. All offerings are provided in order to improve the patient/family experience well in advance of end-of-life needs. In 2022, Chapters Health is certified for the fifth consecutive year as a great workplace in the Aging Services category by the independent analysts at the Great Place to Work® Institute and in 2021, Chapters Health was named a Top Workplace by the Tampa Bay Times. To learn more, visit http://www.chaptershealth.org, like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Health Information Associates is the leading medical coding support and auditing company.

“The experience, knowledge, and most importantly, leadership of our team is why we are the most well-respected coding and review company in the industry,” says Betsy Bailey, President and Founder of HIA.

PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. (PRWEB)
November 15, 2022

Health Information Associates (HIA) is proud to announce multiple leadership promotions across its business development, operations, marketing and technology teams as the company continues significant expansion of its medical coding and auditing services, built across three decades.

The promotions speak to HIAs philosophy of experience, expertise and education by having the most elite subject matter experts in its leadership and decision-making teams.

“HIA has always had a goal of promoting from within whenever possible. We are happy to announce the internal promotions of several key people within our organization,” says Betsy Bailey, President and Founder of HIA. “Many of these individuals have been with HIA for more than 20 years and have been instrumental in the growth and success of our company. The experience, knowledge, and most importantly, leadership of our team is why we are the most well-respected coding and review company in the industry.”

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  Angie Christen, RHIA, a 30-year industry veteran and most recently, Vice President of Operations at HIA, has been promoted to Executive Vice President. Christen joined HIA in 1996, leveraging her experience as a Director of Medical Records and Quality Assurance (QA) to lead HIA in growing its coding support services. In this role, she will continue to oversee all coding operations, recruitment efforts, business operations and technology innovation strategies.
• Joel Shealy, who joined HIA in 1997, has also been named Executive Vice President after serving in his previous role as Vice President of Business Development. Shealy, a 30-year industry veteran, leverages his business management and marketing background to oversee strategic initiatives, new service line implementation and integrated marketing and sales strategy.
• Brett Randolph, RHIT, CDIP, CCS, AHIMA Approved ICD-10/PCS Trainer, has been named Vice President of Client Services, promoting him from his previous role as the Executive Director of Review Services. During his 30 years of Health Information Management (HIM) experience, Randolph has worked at every level of the HIM Department including extensive experience in the coding area as a Coder, Coding Manager and Director. He is active in his local American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) chapter, having served as Director, President and Past President. He is a nationally recognized speaker for AHIMA and AAPC and was also the 2017-2018 recipient of the WVHIMA Distinguished Member award.
• Daniel Day has been named Vice President of Technology, having been with HIA for nearly 20 years guiding their internal Information Technology systems. Day has led his team in developing HIAs Service-as-a-Software (SaaS), Atom Audit, to be one of the industry’s leading medical coding audit platforms, while continuing to strengthen HIA’s internal operations and security posture.
• Jean Franza, RHIT, has been named Vice President of Finance. Franza has overseen all of HIAs accounting operations since she joined the company in 2002. Prior to joining HIA, she was a business analyst with Liz Claiborne for 20 years, providing sales data to assist in planning for future lines.
• Drew Crawford, a 23-year industry veteran, has been promoted to Executive Director of Business Development. Crawford has worked in healthcare-related sales, account management and contracting his entire career. Having spent 20 years with HIA, his in-depth knowledge of HIA’s service capabilities allows him to provide meaningful solutions to clients’ challenges.
• Beth Ann Moran, MSHIM, has been promoted to Director of Strategic Initiatives. Since she joined HIA in 2015, Moran has worked in both the recruiting and marketing departments. Moran’s new position will spearhead HIA’s effort to expand and enhance its service offerings.
• Taylor Hankinson has been named Director of Marketing after six years with the company as its Marketing Communications Manager. Hankinson has 15 years of digital marketing experience and has used her knowledge to successfully increase HIAs digital audience, brand visibility, and lead generation through paid, owned and earned media strategies.

About HIA

For the past 30 years, HIA has been the leading provider of compliance audits, coding support services and clinical documentation audit services for hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician groups and other healthcare entities. HIA offers PRN support as well as total outsource support. Most recently, HIA launched Atom Audit, its new medical coding audit and data analytics software. Atom Audit is an easy-to-use, intuitive coding review application that enables auditors to manage the entire audit life cycle efficiently and effectively. Features such as the customizable reporting dashboard and coder workflow give users the ability to turn audit insights into actionable next steps. For more information, visit HIAcode.com or call 866-HIA-CODE.

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Boulder iQ

Mike Olichney’s strong engineering, supervisory and mentoring skills will work to speed new-product development for Boulder iQ’s medical-device clients.

BOULDER, Colo. (PRWEB)
November 15, 2022

Boulder iQ has named Michael Olichney lead engineer.

Olichney comes to Boulder iQ with more than 35 years of medical device engineering experience, primarily focused on new-product development. Boulder iQ provides design engineering, development and turnkey manufacturing for consumer, high-technology and medical products, and regulatory, clinical and quality management system services for the medical device and in-vitro diagnostic industries.

The engineering leader’s expertise includes mechanical and disposables design, materials selection, fluids modeling, sensitivity analysis and statistical methods. He is proficient in designing test, and verification and validation, programs, and is well-versed in FDA regulatory issues and programs. Olichney has served as inventor on more than 15 U.S. patents.

Before joining Boulder iQ, Olichney was principal engineer and owner of BOCS LLC (Castle Rock, Colorado), a contract and consulting services firm for medical product design and development. Other positions have included: principal engineer at ConMed Advanced Surgical, Team Medical, LLC, Battelle Medical Products/Larren Corporation and RELA Inc.; engineering specialist at Baxter Healthcare; and project engineer, mechanical engineer and project manager at Valleylab Inc. All of his work has been in the Denver-Boulder metro area.

Olichney holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University.

“Mike brings a critical mass of medical device experience to Boulder iQ,” says Jim Kasic, chairman and founder of Boulder iQ and its Boulder Sterilization Services division. “His strong supervisory and mentoring skills will complement his project management and technical expertise in leading a progressive engineering team, and in speeding new-product development for our clients.”

Boulder iQ (http://www.boulderiq.com)

Boulder iQ is an expert contract firm that provides life sciences companies all the services they need to bring products to market. With specialties in regulatory affairs, quality assurance, design, engineering and manufacturing, the company’s single-source program speeds product development. The Boulder Sterilization Services division, providing quick-turn ethylene oxide sterilization, final assembly and packaging services, is the recent recipient of a $250,000 grant from the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade’s Advanced Industries Accelerator Grant Program.

Based in Boulder, Colorado, Boulder iQ is ISO 13485:2016 certified through Boulder BioMed. The company’s Boulder Medical Device Accelerator provides equity investment in start-up companies seeking product development services, expert mentoring and infrastructure support.

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With the National Health Service (NHS) committing to a target of becoming net zero by 2045³, the speakers will explore how the implementation of point of care testing within primary care can assist in reaching this goal.

TORONTO (PRWEB)
November 15, 2022

Patients are experiencing difficulties accessing urgent care, creating a direct impact on GP’s and their ability to facilitate continuity of care to patients who need it. To add to this pressure, primary care teams are finding themselves increasingly stretched beyond capacity¹. Could point of care testing help transform patient care?

Featured speaker Dr. Mayur Lakhani, a practising GP Principal-Partner in Leicestershire and Former President of the Royal College of Practitioners, will discuss how implementing new models of care in general practice and PCNs (Primary Care Networks) using the LumiraDx Platform can assist in tackling the challenges faced within primary care, along with the benefits it could provide for patients and staff.

Dr. Lakhani will also examine the implementation of point of care testing in PCNs in the context of the Fuller Stocktake report¹, and how its adoption can assist in providing more integrated services in system, place and neighbourhood settings. With the introduction of PCNs, the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) includes funding for 26,000 essential roles to support PCNs in delivering more personalised and integrated health and social care². The featured speakers will look at how the introduction of point of care testing could assist these roles in bringing change and improvements to patient care pathways. With the National Health Service (NHS) committing to a target of becoming net zero by 2045³, the speakers will explore how the implementation of point of care testing within primary care can assist in reaching this goal.

Join Dr. Mayur Lakhani CBE, GP Partner and ICB Board Member; and Lucy Lehane, Associate Director Medical Affairs, LumiraDx, for the live webinar on Friday, November 25, 2022, at 7am EST (11am GMT-UK/ 12pm CET/EU-Central).

For more information, or to register for this event, visit Using Point of Care Testing to Transform Patient Care in General Practice and Primary Care Networks.

References:

1. Fuller, C. (2022) Next Steps For Integrating Primary Care: Fuller Stocktake Report, NHS choices. NHS. Available at: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/next-steps-for-integrating-primary-care-fuller-stocktake-report/ (Accessed: October 24, 2022).

2. Expanding our workforce (no date) NHS choices. NHS England. Available at: https://www.england.nhs.uk/gp/expanding-our-workforce/ (Accessed: October 24, 2022).

3. Delivering a ‘Net Zero’ National Health Service (2020) NHS choices. NHS England and NHS Improvement. Available at: https://www.england.nhs.uk/greenernhs/ (Accessed: October 24, 2022).

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USOSM President and CEO Richard Hall (R) accepts the Platinum Level award from AAOMS President J. David Johnson Jr. (L).

AAOMS provides a vital service to individual oral and maxillofacial surgeons and to the OMS profession, as a whole. We’re honored to help support them.

IRVING, Texas (PRWEB)
November 15, 2022

U.S. Oral Surgery Management (USOSM) was recently recognized for supporting the oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMS) specialty at the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS), which was held in New Orleans. USOSM President and CEO Richard Hall accepted the award onstage, during AAOMS’s Opening Ceremony, Awards Presentation and Meeting Dedication. AAOMS honored USOSM as one of its Platinum Level corporate supporters for having contributed between $50,000 to $100,000 in support of AAOMS and the OMS Foundation.

“Without the generosity of our corporate and OMS Foundation supporters, many of the educational sessions, activities and special events at the AAOMS Annual Meeting would not be possible,” said J. David Johnson Jr., DDS, the 2021-22 AAOMS President. “We recognize and thank U.S. Oral Surgery Management and all of our other corporate and Foundation supporters for their commitment to AAOMS and our amazing specialty.”

Platinum Level corporate supporters also received special lapel pins to help signal them as champions of the OMS profession throughout the year.

“AAOMS works hard to advance the OMS specialty to ensure oral and maxillofacial surgeons have access to the training, continuing education, research, and support needed to provide patients with the safest and most effective care possible,” said Hall. “AAOMS provides a vital service to individual oral and maxillofacial surgeons and to the OMS profession, as a whole. We’re honored to help support them.”

AAOMS is a not-for-profit, professional association representing more than 11,000 oral and maxillofacial surgeons, OMS residents and professional, allied staff throughout the United States. It has served the professional and public needs of the specialty since 1918. In pursuit of the association’s mission to advance, promote, and preserve oral and maxillofacial surgery, AAOMS appreciates the support provided by companies such as USOSM that share its vision of a technologically advanced specialty to assure patient access to safe and effective care. For more information, visit https://www.aaoms.org/.

Headquartered in Irving, Texas, USOSM has partner practices spanning 21 states. They include Texas, Colorado, Georgia, Tennessee, Minnesota, Alabama, Oklahoma, Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Arizona, California, Oregon, Virginia, Washington, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Illinois. A shared services organization, USOSM collaborates with premier oral and maxillofacial surgeons to offer a partnership solution for continued and accelerated practice success. USOSM provides operational, marketing and administrative support services, reinvests resources, and applies best practices to improve clinical and financial performance and produce steadier, more profitable growth for all. For more information, visit https://www.usosm.com/.

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