Academic Medical Centers

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Solutions for academic medical centers

Academic medical centers (AMCs) face new challenges, pressures and risks in the evolving healthcare and higher education landscapes. Our experienced Value Architects™ understand the intersection of higher education and healthcare.

To better position your organization and respond effectively to changing regulations, costs and quality standards, AMCs must transform payment models, improve patient outcomes and enhance financial performance.

Baker Tilly helps AMCs navigate these complex challenges to balance your research, clinical, and educational missions through our collaborative risk and assurance solutions.

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Academic medical center intersections

Higher Education
Balance competing priorities. Effectively align limited resources. Advance student and institutional success.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Baker Tilly helps organizations win now, and explore the options for tomorrow, through an orchestrated approach and understanding encompassing all facets of the healthcare ecosystem.
Internal Audit
Leverage industry-specialized internal audit for organizational success.
Enterprise Risk Management
Mitigate risks and seize opportunities.
Regulatory Compliance
Strengthen your federal, state, industry and agency regulatory compliance.
Cybersecurity
Proactively protect and address your cybersecurity and information technology (IT) risks.
Privacy
A sound privacy program accounts for compliance, legal, financial, third party, reputational and activisms risks.
Financial Statement Audit
Baker Tilly marries technology with the financial statement audit to provide clients with an innovative financial statement audit.
Performance Optimization
Baker Tilly’s performance optimization professionals help clients ensure that resources are aligned with strategic priorities and positioned for cost effectiveness.

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Insights for academic medical centers

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Reporting institutional data: are you taking a proactive approach?

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Leveraging internal audit to minimize risk of third-party vendors in healthcare

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Leverage internal audit to minimize risk in medical leadership contracting and compensation processes

Eight internal audit questions

How to minimize risk in the charge capture process of telehealth services

Cybersecurity and IT audit

Cybersecurity and data privacy are essential to academic medical center compliance, risk management and success.

Data mapping: building a strong foundation for cybersecurity and data privacy
Data mapping can help organizations comply with data privacy regulations, align with cybersecurity frameworks, and prepare for compliance efforts.
How to build an effective IT audit team during a time of skilled resourcing shortages
Explore strategies to staffing and building a high-performing IT audit team, including the advantages and benefits to co-sourcing and outsourcing.
Are you overlooking a key component to cybersecurity risk management?
This article discusses new cybersecurity risks that have developed due to IT challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.
How higher education and research institutions may benefit from using HITRUST to navigate research data security requirements
Regulated research institutions may utilize HITRUST to to satisfy contractual requirements, internal control environment requirements and due diligence with regulatory authorities and other external stakeholders.
How your NFP can manage cyber risk when cyber insurance costs rise
The cybersecurity insurance market has shifted significantly over the last 12-18 months, leaving not-for-profit organizations faced with pricey premiums or the inability to purchase coverage.

Since engaging Baker Tilly as our internal audit function, the level of comfort of the trustees with internal audit and its work has risen tremendously.

Audit Committee Chair and Chief Audit Executive for a major academic medical center