HCCA Conference in Dallas

I want to thank everyone that stopped and visited with John and I at the HCCA conference. Below is a snapshot from the show.

Contract Guardian Delivers for Healthcare

John Reuter just published a white paper: "Contract Guardian delivers for Healthcare". He provides focus on four (4) key areas:

1. The Joint Commission Hospital Accreditation Audit Assistance
2. Stark Law Conflict of Interest
3. Internal Audit Compliance
4. Organization and Risk Mitigation

See Complete Article and Other Publications for Contract Guardian

Auto Bookmark Available in Contract Guardian

Contract Guardian allows a user to upload a document to the application from the desktop. If the document is an Adobe PDF document Guardian will create bookmarks in the PDF document based on predetermined inventory of phrases established by the client. The contracts are available immediately after the user uploads the contract to Contract Guardian. No waiting and available for immediate use!

Visit www.contractguardian.com for additional details.

Join Rippe & Kingston at the 14th Annual Compliance Institute

Enjoy a personal demonstration of Contract Guardian while you address all of your Compliance Issues.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Query Facility Now Supports Department Users

The Query Facility can now be deployed to users that are authenticated at the Department Security Level. Contract Managers can now add Department Level Users to the Query Role. All Queries they create including both adhoc and saved queries will be limited to the departments they are authorized to use.

If you have questions on this new feature, please e-mail me at jreuter@Rippe.com. For more information on Contract Guardian, please visit www.contractguardian.com.

Transfer Merge Departments, Contract Types and Attachment Types

Several new transfer facilities have been added to Contract Guardian. An Administrator can now transfer or merge contracts and attachments between Departments and Types.

As an example, a region may have 100 contracts associated with a type say "Affiliate Agreements" and 50 more under "Affiliation Agreements". If you want all 150 to be in the 'Affiliation Agreements" type, you can transfer the contracts then delete the "Affiliate Agreements" type. This can now be completed in seconds by the Administrator!

The same can be done for Departments and Attachment types. These features are available from within the specific table maintenance function.