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With the Presidential election just days away, Provider Web Capital conducted a two week survey gathering the last minute opinions of healthcare practice owners. Regardless of which candidate wins, we are likely to see sweeping changes to healthcare and a wave of new government regulations. Our main objective was to determine what changes healthcare agencies would like to see when the new administration takes office.  And well, the results are in…

Recently published in Advance Healthcare Network, According to a survey carried out by Scrypt, Inc., developers of secure and compliant productivity tools for regulated industries, more than half (56%) of healthcare professionals believe their organization could be doing more to educate employees on HIPAA compliance and the rules around sharing Protected Health Information (PHI), as noted by a press release.

The Business Journals reports, as a leading voice for the small-business sector, one of the factors I track and report on is public policy.

According to the Bladen Journal, raising the federal minimum wage to $12 per hour could reduce private sector employment by 1.8 million jobs over 10 years and cut economic output by $2 trillion, according to a new report released today by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB).

NPR reports, Minimum wages are on their way to $15 an hour in New York and California. Workers look forward to the bump. But some small businesses are bracing for a hit to their bottom line.

The NFIB reports, with $15 minimum wage hikes on the horizon for many areas across the country, small businesses are prepping for the worst. Brace yourselves, business owners: The minimum wage continues to rise.

Recently published in NewsFactor, Small business owners are rushing to get their companies -- in particular their employees - ready for an upcoming change in overtime rules.

According to California Healthline, In recent months, health aides who care for elderly Americans at home appeared at scores of rallies calling for better pay and workplace conditions. President Barack Obama and some of the presidential candidates have pledged to improve the lives of these workers, who often struggle on the poverty-level wages they are paid.

In a recent article released in Forbes, As healthcare in America moves from a cottage industry to big business and gets progressively consolidated, regulated, and systematized, the industry has found itself at a crossroads with its customers (i.e., patients). Healthcare has technically always been patient-centric of course but like many business it never really focused on those patients – their unique needs and their relationship with them.

Modern Healthcare recently reported, The CMS is again putting the brakes on an initiative meant to more closely regulate prescribing in the Medicare Part D program.