Risk & Controls Assessment

Risk & Controls Assessment


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Risk & Controls Impact Assessment

Enhance Risk Controls Environment to Manage Gafety, Financial Integrity and Compliance


Behavioral Health clinics face the challenge of identifying compliance, financial and clinical risk in a continually changing landscape that serves a socioeconomically diverse population.

Technology presents opportunities to improve the controls environment and mitigate these risks through surveillance and automation. MRI’s competencies in healthcare risk assessment and reporting through innovative controls help better manage the inherent financial, compliance, technology, and clinical risks in care delivery.

Revenue Cycle

  • Patient Access
  • Charges Capture
  • CDM
  • Denial Management
  • GL Reconciliation

IT General Controls (ITGCS)

And Segregation of duties (SODS)

  • Changes Controls
  • User Provisioning
  • Access Controls
  • Roles
  • Responsibilities
  • Sensitive Access

Patient Safety

  • Loop Closure
  • Transition of Care
  • Unintended Consequences
  • (Alert Fatigue, Copy and Paste, CDS, etc.)

Regulatory

And Segregation of duties (SODS)

  • MACRA/ MIPS
  • Quality Reporting
  • Security / Privacy
  • HIPAA,
  • OIG/OCR Requirements

Foundational Objectives and Activities

  • Evaluate risks using data, workflow analysis, and experienced subject matter professionals for controls integration.
  • Facilitate functional stakeholder buy-in and support of the controls strategy to reduce risk, sustain the operating environment, and keep the system operating efficiency and effectively.
  • Utilize proprietary tools and accelerators to deliver value more quickly and consistently.
  • Provide leading practice recommendations from similar organizations to improve the control environment and reduce risk.
  • Collaborate with clients, software providers and implementers to integrate and tailor CRSP methodologies and program approach to the EHR/HIT platform to reduce financial, technology, clinical and compliance risks.



Optimization & Compliance Assessment

Risk and Control Focus Areas for Optimization

EHRs/HITs are inherently complex systems that span numerous workflows and interconnected applications that should be viewed holistically. The following are sample areas that require a structured and calibrated approach to design and implement controls:

Technology

Excessive privileged access, segregation of duties violations, ineffective monitoring tools, HIPAA violations, and unauthorized changes.

Finance

Inability to reconcile charge interfaces, work queue configuration errors, inaccurate workflow reports, lack of tiered review/approval logic.

Compliance

Failing to define the use of ignatures/co-signatures, violation of minimum ecessary access, incomplete MSPQ and ABNs.

Clinical

Incomplete referral and follow-up communications; unscheduled critical referrals; inadequate supporting documentation; and failed loop closure to referring provider and patient.

Value Achieved Through Controls Integration

Organizations with enhanced controls designed into their operations have experienced:

  • Reductions in patient safety events and potential liability claims losses that result in hard dollar savings in reduced legal expenses and liability claims losses.
  • Improved reporting capabilities to align with new standards for reimbursement.
  • Cost efficiencies and fewer manual work arounds, which can lead to reductions in audit and internal audit efforts and costs.
  • Cost efficiencies and fewer manual work arounds, which can lead to reductions in audit and internal audit efforts and costs.



Cyber Security Assessment

Cyber Security Services

When it Comes to Safeguarding the Integrity of Your Healthcare Data and Network Operations, Partnering With an IT Services Company With a Proven Track Record is Essential. MRI is an industry leader when it comes to healthcare IT security. Marrying an extensive history of delivering medical technology solutions with an unmatched commitment to data security, we have the processes in place to provide you with the ultimate secure environment for your sensitive medical data.

MRI: Medical and Healthcare IT Security Experts

MRI’s private cloud hosting delivers the highest levels of secure computing. With sensitive health data you can rest assured that our healthcare information security protocols are among the most stringent in the industry.

We protect our medical clients’ data on many fronts. Some of the reasons our hosting is a secure choice for your confidential information include:


Reason #1: VMware technology for Healthcare IT Security

In conjunction with our enterprise-level partnership with VMware, MRI offers virtual machine computing environments that incorporate unparalleled levels of data security. VMware is recognized as the leader in VM technology and brings with it a comprehensive package of data protection features making it one of the safest computing mediums available.


Reason #2: Comprehensive healthcare backup and recovery plans

- MRI offers a suite of backup and recovery solutions designed to keep your data flowing in the event of a service disruption. Our Disaster Recovery as a Service offering employs cutting edge technology such as continuous offsite replication provider Zerto and VM backup provider Veeam. Working in tandem, these tools will ensure your data is recoverable at all times.

MRI maintains a suite of fully load-balanced offsite hot spare servers at our data centers at the ready to provide full redundancy for your cloud-based network. Whether due to a server crash, hardware failure or natural disaster, any service disruption can be immediately bypassed with your network up and running at a moment’s notice, without any loss of data.


Reason #3: Secure data centers

Our offsite data centers employ the highest levels of physical security, protecting your data at all times. The facilities are safeguarded by video surveillance, keycard access, locked server cabinet enclosures and on-duty guards. And power redundancy provided by an independent generator guarantees your data will be available to you when you need it.


Reason #4: Full HIPAA Security Compliance

MRI’s healthcare IT hosting is in full compliance with HIPAA standards, certifying our commitment to medical information security excellence.

MRI takes the security of health information seriously and has put in place a rigorous set of data protection solutions designed to safeguard your confidential records. With tools such as VMware along with our secure data centers, you’ll have the peace of mind that comes with knowing your health data is protected to the highest degree.

Contact Us to learn how your practice can benefit from our industry-leading healthcare IT security solutions.

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