The New Year: Complete your compliance resolutions

Some say the arrival of the New Year offers the opportunity to wash away the mistakes of 2007 and focus on a fresh start.

Although HCAS can't promise a brighter future, we can share some of our advisors' top compliance goals and give you some tips to establish successful resolutions of your own.

Professional growth

Marta Hernandez, CHC, RHIT, really loves working in compliance. Hernandez, a compliance auditing analyst at Mount Sinai Medical Center/Miami Heart Institute in Miami Beach, has been involved in all aspects of compliance since 2001.

However, she now wants to take her professional training to a new level. "The one and only work-related New Year's resolution would be to obtain my master's [degree] in healthcare law," says Hernandez.