Hospital HR: How To Avoid A HIPAA Violation As A Hospital Employee

In a fast paced environment, like that of a hospital emergency room, it is easy to forget to protect a patient’s privacy. By shattering this sacred trust between medical personnel and their clientele, many of these employees can lose both their license for practice and/or pay fines of thousands of dollars. One of the most crucial aspects of hospital HR …

How Epic Systems Helped Reveal the Flint Water Crisis

One of the reasons that physicians are given to encourage them to adopt electronic health records is the capability of the technology to improve how physician practices manage large volumes of patient information. But the lead contamination of the Flint, Mich. water supply brings to light another benefit of EHRs: they can support public health. The physician who brought to light …

Why Epic Systems Might Be Perfect For You

Present day healthcare is moving from the traditional paper medical charts to a digital format. Epic Systems  provides electronic record systems. Epic’s health care software is used at thousands of health clinics and hospitals all over the United States.  In addition to storing electronic health records for more than half of all Americans, Epic applications offer: Registration and Scheduling Billing …

5 Budget Concerns For Hospital HR Systems

With medical liability insurance for each employee, paying for years worth of schooling, and recruiting personnel in uncertain political times, hospital HR systems drive significant costs which an organization incurs in both labor and capital. From recruiting the best doctors to managing a diverse workforce, HR software implementation is a key tool in the complete employee life cycle. The following are …

Consider the Best Uses of Time for Your Administrative Team

It’s the job of managers to write the best schedules for their assigned employees. In a healthcare organization that has already implemented PeopleSoft HRM, managers know this because they spend a lot of time reviewing personnel reports. They examine barriers to maximum productivity within the employee work day, including ensuring extra staff coverage for peak times and covering worker absences due to illness, personal reasons, and attrition. Consider How Administrators Use Their Time …

Pre-Admission Procedures Improve Hospital Finances

Pre-admission procedures gives a hospital its first opportunity to positively impact hospital financial management. Pre-admission Affects Hospital and Patient Resources From the hospital’s point of view, pre-admission interaction presents the best occasion to schedule hospital resources appropriately in advance. The threshold question from the patient’s perspective is whether the anticipated health care is necessary. Not only is that something that …

5 Things to Know About Hospital HR

When most people think hospital HR, they may think it is the simple task of handling the relations between doctors. If only it were that simple! Hospitals are made up of so many different types of employees: doctors, physicians assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, administrative staff, house keeping staff, just to name a few. A human resources representative at a hospital has …

Affordable Care Act Reporting and PeopleSoft HCM

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) came with some new reporting requirements for employers with over 50 employees. These new forms took effect in the 2015 tax year. This has left the HR departments in many medium and large businesses scrambling to learn the new requirements and complete the forms. Form 1095-C must be sent to all full-time employees eligible for …