How many hats does your compliance officer wear? Here are some of the additional roles compliance officers have mentioned to me:
Sometimes people just laugh when I ask if they have roles in addition to Compliance Officer – because they have so many.
Give them a break
Topics: compliance officer
At the risk of getting some Billboard top ten 1980’s Janet Jackson lyrics stuck in your head for the rest of the day, I’d like to ask you an important question:
What has compliance done for you lately?
Phrased another way:
How has your compliance program helped your organization this year?
Did your hotline encourage employees to report potential false claims internally, so they could be self-reported? Did this hotline call possibly avoid a whistleblower situation?
Did routine compliance audits find a documentation issue – so you could correct it before it became a widespread problem?
Maybe the compliance department collaborated with the HIPAA Security Officer to run a ransomware and phishing campaign, educating employees about potentially hazardous emails and links. As a result, the Compliance Officer and Security Officer received dozens of calls from employees reporting suspicious emails and links that potentially contained ransomware or malware. Can you put a price tag on potentially avoiding a costly ransomware attack?
Topics: Compliance Basics, Culture of Compliance, compliance, compliance officer
