Course "New HIPAA Audit and Enforcement Activities: Being Prepared to Show your Compliance " has been pre-approved by RAPS as eligible for up to 12 credits towards a participant's RAC recertification upon full completion.
Overview:
We will be discussing the history and evolution of HIPAA Privacy/Security and the major points you need to understand to proactively protect your practice or business from the imminent federal auditing process:
* History of HIPAA
* HITECH
* HIPAA Omnibus Rule
* How to perform a HIPAA Security Risk Assessment
* What is involved in a Federal audit and how is it conducted
* Risk factors for a federal audit
* How to avoid a Federal audit
* Business Associates and HIPAA audits
* EHR and HIPAA
* Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Planning
* Assessing your contractors and sub-contractors
* In depth discussions on IT down to the nuts and bolts
* Risk factors that can cause an audit (low hanging fruit)
* New rules which grant states ability to sue citing HIPAA on behalf of a patient
* New funding measures
Why should you attend :
The evolutions of this enigmatic law and how what was once relative benign in terms of enforcement is now fully funded and aggressive. Learn what you can do to be prepared for an audit and how to lower risks of ever being audited.
It is absolutely imperative that you are proactive and not reactive with your compliance program, this is a necessary evil and you need to protect your practice or your business and limit risks from the imminent Federal audits. Join me in keeping up with this very confusing law and take advantage of all the templates and information provided as part of the seminar.
Areas Covered in the Session:
* HIPAA -Brief History
* HIPAA Privacy Rule vs HIPAA Security Rule
* HITECH Act
* Breach Notification Rule
* Omnibus Rule and audits
* Business Associates and audits
* Current Court Cases (precedence)
* Paper Based PHI Concerns and how to lower risk
Course "HIPAA for the Compliance Officer" has been pre-approved by RAPS as eligible for up to 12 credits towards a participant's RAC recertification upon full completion.
Overview:
I will be going into great detail regarding you practice or business and how it relates to the HIPAA Security/Privacy Rule,
Areas covered will be history of HIPAA, privacy vs security, business associates, changes for 2016, audit process, paper based PHI, HIPAA and suing, texting, email, encryption, medical messaging, voice data and much, much, more
I will uncover myths versus reality as it relates to this very enigmatic law based on over 600 risk assessments performed as well as years of experience in dealing directly with the Office of Civil Rights HIPAA auditors.
I will also speak to real life audits conducted by the Federal government (I've been on both sides of these audits) what your highest risks are for being fined (some of the risk factors may surprise you).
In addition, this course will cover the highest risk factors for being sued for wrongful disclosures of PHI and the manner in which patients are now using state laws to sue for wrongful disclosures.
Don't always believe what you read online about HIPAA, especially as it relates to encryption and IT, there are a lot of groups selling more than is necessarily required.
Why you should attend:
This lesson will be addressing how practice/business managers (or compliance offers) need to get their HIPAA house in order before the imminent audits occur. It will also address major changes under the Omnibus Rule and any other applicable updates for 2016. There are an enormous amount of issues and risks for covered entities and business associates these days. I will speak on specific experiences from over 17 years of experience in working as an outsourced compliance auditor, expert witness on HIPAA cases, and thoroughly explain how patients are now able to get cash remedies for wrongful disclosures of private health information. More im
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