A recent article in McKnight's outlines additional enforcement measures beyond standard audits conducted by Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights to educate providers.

According to the article, the agency will begin focusing more on enforcement using harsher investigative tools, which may include subpoenas, legal action, corrective plan implementation, forced payback, and even statutory penalties.

"It's a wake-up call for providers to better prepare themselves,” notes Peter Teichert, Vice President, Compliance, Prime Care Technologies. “Our partnership with HIPAA One offers access to industry-leading HIPAA Risk Assessment software, so our customers now have a simpler way to manage all the tasks involved with HIPAA compliance.”

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A recent article in McKnight's on the pace of EHR adoption in assisted living facilities centers around several factors. Cheryl Field, Chief Product Officer, Prime Care Technologies, weighs in with other industry experts. 

“The organizations that are part of larger entities are much more accepting and readily adopting because their business lines are attached to other parts of the post-acute care continuum, where they have seen how critical it is to have standardization of data,” she says. 

"From a security perspective, interoperability becomes an issue on technical standards and practice,” she adds. “It is a challenge and remains so. I think we’re about five to 10 years out from being fully interoperable across the continuum.”

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October 29, 2018, Duluth, Ga. – In a press release this week, Prime Care Technologies, Inc. announced that Bria Health Services has adopted primeFORCE JobCenter, powered by BlueFinHire, to fully automate the organization’s hiring process across 13 facilities in Illinois and Wisconsin.

The primeFORCE JobCenter portal will enable Bria Health Services to better select and recruit in today’s highly competitive market. The portal centralizes applicant data in a single online location, while providing alerts and tracking to make the hiring process faster than ever. These timesaving efficiencies enable Bria’s recruiters to more efficiently fill positions and reduce onboarding time.

“From a hiring perspective, we really appreciate the ability to identify and select qualified applicants sooner, as well as the ability to build our own database of candidates,” noted Efriam Weinfeld, Nursing Home Administrator, BRIA of Palos Hills/STRIVE. “We’ve seen what primeVIEW and primeCOMMERCE can do for our operational performance and purchasing automation, so we look forward to automating our hiring processes with primeFORCE.”

JobCenter is just one module in the primeFORCE Workforce Technology suite, which integrates applicant, employee, payroll and benefits data to make it easy for one or multiple stakeholders to execute functions such as recruitment, hiring, onboarding, benefits and more. Through other strategic alliances, primeFORCE also offers a full range of individual benefits and enterprise risk management plans, as well as resident telehealth services for on-site clinical evaluation.

About Prime Care Technologies

Since 2003, Prime Care Technologies has equipped long-term care providers with flexible hosting, managed services and cloud software that evolve with industry demand. Based in Atlanta with 150 employees and 200+ healthcare/IT partnerships, its technology-driven solutions are installed in 6,500+ facilities. With deep multi-vendor interoperability expertise, including the integration of 70+ healthcare applications and 3,500+ EDI payers, Prime Care Technologies offers the leading data warehouse and claims clearinghouse in post-acute care. Learn more at www.primecaretech.com.

About Bria Health Services

Bria Health Services manages 13 independent senior living, assisted living, rehabilitation and skilled nursing facilities across Illinois and Wisconsin, with the goal of providing compassionate, quality care focusing on the unique needs of residents and their families. Learn more at www.briahs.com.

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