Risk assessments and business impact analyses are two key elements of a DR plan, but they are not interchangeable. For an airtight DR plan, an organization should conduct both a business impact ...

A risk assessment helps covered entities ensure they are compliant with the HIPAA requirements in terms of physical, technical, and administrative safeguards. It also assists in showing potential ...

There is widespread agreement that taxpayers pay more when Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans than if those beneficiaries were enrolled in traditional Medicare. MA ...

Implementing the new standard on quality management (QM) by the Dec. 15, 2025, deadline may seem daunting, but the AICPA has developed resources and tools to get started, including a recently revised ...

The number of organisations developing climate risk mitigation playbooks in response to potential climate disasters has increased markedly. Climate catastrophe costs continue to rise globally, ...

With the growth of automation and increase of workers engaging with machines, I felt there would be some benefit to sharing an example of the safety risk assessments that we do in order to reduce or ...

The introduction of process safety system–specific malware into the manufacturing world in 2017 intensified the discussion around the convergence of safety and cybersecurity. If a cyberattack could ...

Learn the guidelines around this Medicare code for assessing patients' risk based on social factors. In 2024, the CMS finalized a new code, G0136, to pay for administering a social determinants of ...

Power outage—two words that keep or wake you up at night. Rather than tossing and turning or imagining disaster scenarios, prepare for power outages by assessing the risk in your power architecture ...

In December 2024, EPA released the final risk evaluation under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for formaldehyde. In December 2025, EPA released an Updated Draft Risk Calculation Memorandum for ...