“Healthcare has entered the era of “Compliance 2.0,” fueled by information technology and analytics designed to root out fraud, contends Daniel Levinson, Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Levinson, who has headed the HHS OIG for more than a decade, made the remarks in a keynote address at last week’s Health Care Compliance Association conference.
‘We’re really looking at a different era,” which is bringing “together technology with the right expertise,’ said Levinson during the 2017 HCCA Compliance Institute. ‘When we got off the ground in the mid-1990s, it was really the beginning of the Internet age. A lot has happened in 20 years technologically. Now, we have the kinds of tools that we couldn’t have imagined 20 years ago.’ ”
The foregoing quote from the May 2, 2017, issue of Health Data Management article by Greg Slabodkin entitled “HHS IG: Technology aids ‘Compliance 2.0’ oversight in healthcare” (http://bit.ly/2p9Vxv3) recognizes the new tools available for the USA DHHS OIG in executing his mission “… to protect the integrity of HHS programs and operations, by detecting and preventing fraud, waste and abuse.”
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