Enable managers to monitor their own departments for compliance
Health Care Auditing Strategies, November 1, 2005
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As a hospital auditor, you can't possibly root out every potential risk area in your facility without help. That's why more audit and compliance departments call on department managers to complete regular internal monitoring reviews.
"We're starting to break free of this idea that compliance is something that's done out of a single office and that it's somebody else's problem," says Stephen A. Miller, JD, chief compliance and privacy officer for Capital Health System, Inc., in Trenton, NJ.
Over the past year and a half, Miller has set up small self-monitoring programs in individual departments throughout the Capital Health System.
Every time the compliance department identifies a need for corrective action-typically through an audit-it creates a tool for the individual department to conduct periodic compliance checks. This step ensures that individual departments continue to practice corrective measures, even after the auditors have left.
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