Your Partner in Quality Management, Compliance Management, and EHS Software. As businesses grow and evolve, maintaining compliance is key to success. EtQ is an Enterprise solution that fosters the ability to identify, mitigate and prevent high-risk events through automation, integration and collaboration: Improve visibility into Compliance. Increase productivity and streamline processes.
associate - a friend who is frequently in the company of another; drinking companions; comrades in arms. companion, comrade, familiar, fellow. date, escort - a participant in a date; his date never stopped talking.
Initially, a business associate was defined as âa person or entity that performs certain functions or activities that involve the use or disclosure of protected health information on behalf of, or provides services to, a covered entityâ. An accounting firm whose accounting services to a health care provider involve access to protected health information. 2  An attorney whose legal services to a health plan involve access to protected health information. 3  A consultant that performs utilization reviews for a hospital.