The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has ordered labs that perform COVID-19 testing to report test data to state and local public health agencies by August 1, 2020. What makes the … [Read more...]
GAO Report
Federal COVID-19 Testing Data Collection Effort Has Been Ineffective
July 3, 2020
The federal government has done a poor job of collecting and reporting COVID-19 testing data to the CDC since the pandemic began. That’s the conclusion of a U.S. Government and Accountability Office … [Read more...]
Compliance Perspectives
Use Contact Logging to Ensure Lab Employees Practice Social Distancing
July 2, 2020
Managing a lab compliance program in the age of COVID-19 poses new and unprecedented challenges. One of the biggest and most important is ensuring that lab employees and the persons they interact with … [Read more...]
Employment Law Update
Supreme Court ruling extends workplace protections to LGBTQ workers
June 18, 2020
By Mike O’Brien bio SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND TRANSGENDER STATUS NOW ARE PROTECTED CLASSES NATIONALLY: Federal civil rights law protects gay, lesbian, and transgender employees, the United States … [Read more...]
New Laws
HHS Requires Labs to Report Extensive & Unprecedented COVID-19 Testing Data by August 1
June 17, 2020
Three months into the pandemic, HHS has decided that it would be a good idea for labs that perform COVID-19 testing to report not only test results but other real-time data that labs generally don’t … [Read more...]
Technology
Choosing A Partner to Automate Your Compliance Department
June 11, 2020
By Kristi Williams bio Sometimes the obvious isn’t so obvious. And sometimes it takes fresh eyes to see what has been right in front of you all along. Such is the case with automation in … [Read more...]
COVID Restrictions Ease
Top 10 questions an employer should ask before returning employees to work
May 25, 2020
By Mike O’Brien bio As various states and municipalities across the country lift shutdowns and begin easing COVID restrictions, employers are faced with complex questions about safely bringing … [Read more...]
