Measuring Change

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QUESTION: How do we know we are doing much better this year than last year?

ANSWER: What was this year is last year plus or minus this year’s changes.

If change is the only constant why do we need to measure it? You don’t know if something is better if you didn’t now how to measure what it was before. 

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HIPPA Audits To Begin

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Source: DK Pruitt

 “United States: OCR Confirms HIPAA Audits To Begin in Early 2016 – Forced to respond to a stinging audit report recently released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) that found less than effective enforcement of the HIPAA privacy standards, HHS’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will commence its long-awaited HIPAA audits in early 2016.” By James E. Bowers for Mondaq, October 9, 2015

http://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/x/433540/Healthcare/OCR+Confirms+HIPAA+Audits+to+Begin+in+Early+2016

 “EHRs provide long-term savings, convenience.” (No byline, ADA News, December 6, 2013).

http://www.ada.org/en/publications/ada-news/2013-archive/december/ehrs-provide-long-term-savings-convenience