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    April 15, 2020
    Your Healthcare Organization’s Lifeline – A Business Continuity Plan
    Business continuity plans are the lifeline for keeping healthcare organizations viable and operational in order to provide care for the community during and after an emergency. During an event such as the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare organizations must activate both their required emergency preparedness plans and their business continuity plans. An emergency preparedness plan is intended to…
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    April 16, 2020
    Telehealth – The Game Has Changed
    The disruption the COVID-19 pandemic has created within the healthcare delivery system and the high demand for access to care have led to rapid and extensive expansion of coverage for telehealth services. Not only do providers now have greater flexibility to safely treat patients using telehealth modalities, but reimbursement for those services has also improved. Medicare has recently announced…
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    April 17, 2020
    COVID-19 and SOX: Practical Considerations While Navigating the Crisis
    With the impact of COVID-19 extending further every day, its impact on organizations’ Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) programs is unlikely to be their top priority. However, despite the fact that the SEC has allowed for some delay in filing dates, business continues. Internal controls must still be executed and documented, even if in a different manner than was done historically. Continuing to pay attention…
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    April 20, 2020
    The COVID-19 Effect on IPOs: Pre-Public Firms Press “Pause” for Now, but IPO Readiness Must Continue
    With the Covid-19 pandemic raging and the related turbulence in the financial markets, a number of high-profile companies have postponed or slowed the pace of their initial public offerings (IPOs). Based on historical trends during other downturns, the pause on IPOs likely will continue even after markets stabilize, as firms observe a cooling-off period until they gain enough confidence in both…
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    April 20, 2020
    FEMA Funding $$$$ Beginning With the End in Mind: COVID-19 Efforts
    Located within the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is responsible for coordinating the federal government’s response to natural and manmade disasters. FEMA is charged with providing both immediate and long-term assistance to local and state governments as well as individuals. FEMA funds are traditionally a large source of federal government…
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    April 21, 2020
    Cybersecurity Should Be a High Priority for Media Companies Making Crisis Management Plans
    Media companies are under strain due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and their crisis management plans for ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery are undergoing a major, real-world test. One certainty in this uncertain time is that the crisis will highlight clearly where and how these firms need to strengthen their crisis management plans to improve business resiliency. As they do so, they…
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    April 22, 2020
    Remote Workforce Challenges – Managing Employee Productivity
    Protiviti recently introduced the U.N.I.T.E. checklist to share leading practices that help manage remote teams in today’s rapidly shifting work environment. With most of the world now several weeks (or more) into remote working arrangements, we are expanding on our original checklist to explore one specific area of concern observed with our clients and teams: effective, actionable and empathetic…
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    April 22, 2020
    Automation — Healthcare’s Next Great Workforce
    The COVID-19 pandemic has hit all industries, but it has put a real squeeze on the healthcare industry. This pandemic is pressuring healthcare providers from all sides, causing an increase in patients that require intensive care and ventilators, but also causing a constraint on revenues as most other departments halt and defer services to protect those patients and caregivers from becoming…
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    April 23, 2020
    An Intelligent Workplace Can Help Finance Leaders Navigate the COVID-19 Turbulence and Future Disruptions
    When Protiviti conducted a top risks survey among more than 1,000 executives and board members in the third quarter of 2019, few had imagined the risks they’d be facing today brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. More than half of the finance professionals who attended a recent webinar on creating an intelligent workplace said they never saw this type of disruption coming. Less then a quarter had a…
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    April 23, 2020
    U.S. Congress Agrees to Additional $310 Billion for Paycheck Protection Program
    On April 21, the U.S. Senate approved legislation authorizing additional COVID-19-related funding, including $310 billion in supplemental funding for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The U.S. House approved the legislation on April 23, and President Trump is expected to sign it tomorrow. The PPP funding program went live on April 3 and the initial tranche of $349 billion in available…
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