Question

Imagine that a health care employee was injured at work and reported the injury to OSHA because he or she felt that the situation was unsafe. However, upon investigating, OSHA discovered that the employee was using the equipment unsafely and had not attended the employer-provided training on how to use the machinery. What do you think the consequences would be for the health care facility in this case?

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Step-by-step explanation:

When you look at compliance in healthcare, the goal is to comply with industry standards and regulations to ultimately provide safe, high-quality patient care.

You might be thinking that this task falls to a compliance officer. According to SAI Global’s 2018 Healthcare Compliance Benchmark Report, 20% of healthcare companies have one full-time staff person managing compliance, while 13% rely on one part-time worker to handle compliance.

But compliance is truly everyone’s responsibility – with employees at every level thinking about it and participating in it – as it has enormous business implications. Do not make the mistake of relegating compliance to a single compliance officer or department.

While one person or department might take the lead on compliance efforts, the responsibility truly falls to all employees to perform their jobs in the spirit of doing the right thing, both legally and morally.

And it starts with organizational leaders setting the tone and encouraging transparency and ethical behavior. The ultimate goal? To develop a culture of accountability from top to bottom.

The combined effort it takes to achieve compliance is exactly what makes it so difficult. Nevertheless, compliance is vitally important for your organization to thrive, especially in the highly regulated, high-risk healthcare industry.

In fact, compliance isn’t just important, it is mandatory, covering everything from HIPAA and drug regulations to fraud protection and antitrust issues. It can be easy to get lost in the regulations and lose sight of performing medicine.

Definition of Non-compliance

Now that you know about compliance, what is non-compliance? In general, non-compliance in healthcare is when individuals do not follow the rules, regulations, and laws that relate to healthcare practices.

While this could include patients not complying with medical orders, the focus here will be on regulatory non-compliance. While non-compliance can cover both internal and external rules and regulations, most healthcare non-compliance issues deal with patient safety, the privacy of patient information, and billing practices.