Carol Gibbons RN, BSN, NHA

If you don't have these six items in your handbook, you are putting your practice at risk.

Can your employee handbook get you in trouble? Many healthcare businesses have an employee handbook, or employee policy handout, but fail to update them on a regular basis.

While all of us recognize the advantages of an electronic record in the respect of data retrieval, the risk has become greater because many practices do not secure their network.

Have you ever done an audit of your employee personnel folders to review the actual information that has made its way into these folders? There have been many Department of Labor changes in the past couple of years, so now would be a good time to pull several folders and analyze the contents.

I hope the new administration can focus on the overall improvement of population health as the goal while it evaluates the healthcare agenda.

Department of Labor changes this year are causing many healthcare businesses to reevaluate overtime requirements.

UnitedHealthcare has generated more conversation about the challenges with the Exchange Products and that has certainly helped their stock price.