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What It's All About

To many compliance professionals, the following scenario will cause you to nod your head in agreement - saying, "I've been there!"It’s a busy Wednesday afternoon, as usual, when you receive the Final Notice from the Professional Development office, asking for your changes to the annual compliance education module, demanding your changes be submitted by Friday. Although you’ve sat down with your staff to make the revisions to the computer-based training modules, you feel an overwhelming sense of frustration, or even failure. Somewhere on your mile-long to-do list, is the entry to “Revamp the Annual Employee Training”. Moving pages around and eliminating some text is not your idea of “revamp”. You know the employees find the annual computer-based training to be tedious, and boring. You dream of making annual compliance training fun and memorable.

But with the looming board of directors meeting, increasing Recovery Audit Contractor cases, coding audit planning and the latest HIPAA privacy breach, a complete recreation of the employee training modules seems idealistic, even impossible. You click Send, pushing a complete “revamp” out yet another year, wishing there was an easier way to quickly find inspiring Compliance Training content. This year, your employees will have to endure the stale, annual reminders once again.

This site is for you.

Making Compliance Training More Engaging

As a compliance professional now working in higher education teaching graduate students about healthcare compliance, I am dedicated to finding the solution to making compliance education more engaging. During my years as a compliance professional working in healthcare, I confess - I did deliver less-than-exciting compliance training to employees, contractors, physicians and others. Looking back, I can't blame myself or anyone for this or say it was one determining factor but it did have a lot to do with time, limited resources and competing priorities. Another major factor was leadership buy-in and the ability (or inability) of the compliance office to demonstrate the NEED for updated, revised, engaging compliance training, for:

• annual training, 

• new employee training and 

• ongoing Compliance and Ethics and HIPAA Privacy and Security training.

As assistant professor and manager of the Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Compliance program at Pacific University, I am dedicated to creating the most effective, interactive and engaging healthcare compliance education possible. While I want to make sure my students learn the facts and knowledge, my goal is to also make sure they learn the content in a way that makes it applicable to their own jobs, and learning. This is true for compliance training in general. 

About Me

Aurae Beidler holds a Masters degree in Healthcare Administration (MHA) from Pacific University.  She also completed a graduate certificate in biomedical informatics at Oregon Health and Sciences University. Previously, she completed a graduate certificate in healthcare management and policy at Oregon State University, and an undergraduate degree, a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, from the University of Oregon.  Currently, she attends courses at Western Oregon University's Masters of Science in Education - Information Technology program. Aurae is credentialed as a CHC, certified in healthcare compliance, RHIA, registered health information administrator and CHPS, Certified in Healthcare Privacy and Security.