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Are Your Patients Searching for a New Doctor?
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Are Your Patients Searching for a New Doctor?

If your patients are not happy with their experience, they may be in the market for a new physician.We can help you stay on top of the latest news that affects your everyday life. Subscribe to stay up to date. (To subscribe to our blog click here).Healthcare has historically been behind other industries in providing a patient-focused experience, leaving patients dissatisfied and often in search of a new place to receive care. If you have patients that don’t return after their visit, cancel appointments, no-shows, or patients that call but don’t schedule a visit, it may be time…
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5 big stories you may not have seen in the AJ last week
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5 big stories you may not have seen in the AJ last week

Hey guys! Happy Mondays! We’re hoping to help you start off the new week informed by looking back at some of the biggest news you may have missed. Last week, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal shared 128 articles in print and across our website, and we understand that some of our best work can easily slip by our readers. Covering everything from the Texas Tech’s homecoming win and the UIL Region 16 marching band contest to horse and burro adoptions, the AJ told a lot of big stories. We get it! It’s hard to read them all — but we want to…
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How To Update Your Compliance Risk Assessment
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How To Update Your Compliance Risk Assessment

Compliance Risk Assessments are critically important in healthcare practices. When utilized correctly, they can save entities from fines, problems, and consequences. We can help you stay on top of the latest news that affects your everyday life. Subscribe to stay up to date. (To subscribe to our blog click here). While almost everyone is familiar with a HIPAA Risk Assessment, many practices have not completed a full Compliance Risk Assessment. A Compliance Risk Assessment is a process for healthcare entities to determine what risks exist, evaluate potential risks and focus resources to address the most significant risks. Compliance Risk Assessments…
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Estate Planning: What is a Fiduciary?
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Estate Planning: What is a Fiduciary?

A fiduciary is a person that must act in your best interests, within the realm of estate planning. In estate planning, the people that you appoint to act as your trustees will have to act as your fiduciaries. The fiduciary relationship requires that person to perform in your best interest. We can help you stay on top of the latest news that affects your everyday life. Subscribe to stay up to date. (To subscribe to our blog click here). When you decide to plan for your future and create your estate plan, you will appoint a variety of individuals to…
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HIPAA Right of Access Penalties are Mounting
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HIPAA Right of Access Penalties are Mounting

The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) continues to enforce the HIPAA Right of Access on behalf of patients.We can help you stay on top of the latest news that affects your everyday life. Subscribe to stay up to date. (To subscribe to our blog click here).Healthcare providers have been warned about complying with the HIPAA Right of Access as set out in the 21st Century CURES Act. Now, providers are seeing words in action. Since beginning the enforcement initiative, the OCR has brought forth 38 actions with financial penalties against healthcare providers in violation of the Right of…
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Former eBay execs get prison time for ‘extreme’ harassment campaign against couple
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Former eBay execs get prison time for ‘extreme’ harassment campaign against couple

Two former eBay Inc security executives were sentenced to prison on Thursday for carrying out a campaign to harass and intimidate a Massachusetts couple through threats and disturbing home deliveries after their online newsletter drew the ire of the company’s then-CEO. Jim Baugh and David Harville were sentenced to 57 and 24 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in an extensive harassment campaign that involved sending the couple cockroaches, a funeral wreath and a bloody Halloween pig mask. US District Judge Patti Saris, who imposed the sentence during hearings in Boston, called it a “hard-to-imagine” scheme fuelled by a…
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Lululemon settles lawsuit against Peloton over alleged patent infringement – Business News
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Lululemon settles lawsuit against Peloton over alleged patent infringement – Business News

Photo: The Canadian Press A Lululemon Athletica logo in Vancouver, BC, on Thursday August 21, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl DyckLululemon Athletica Canada Inc. has reached a settlement with Peloton Interactive Inc. over allegations the exercise equipment maker copied several of the apparel company’s designs. A notice of voluntary dismissal filed in a California court on Friday said the companies negotiated a “mutually agreeable settlement” of the trademark dispute. In a joint statement, Lululemon and Peloton said they are “pleased the matters could be resolved amicably, resulting in dismissal of the pending litigation” between them. “Without admissions of any kind,…
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Torstar Corp. co-owner Bitove makes ‘no apologies’ amid tension with business partner
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Torstar Corp. co-owner Bitove makes ‘no apologies’ amid tension with business partner

One of the co-owners of Torstar Corp. says he is making “no apologies” for the way he runs the newspaper business after his business partner filed for a court order to wind up its parent company. Nordstar Capital Inc. co-owner Jordan Bitove says in a statement that he has worked to make the company resilient, more accountable and more competitive. “I’ve done this to ensure that the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper, can continue to deliver the news, opinion and stories our diverse audiences seek and the investigative journalism our democracy depends upon — while upholding The Star’s incredible legacy…
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