HIPAA and the Economic Stimulus Package
Strengthen Your Program for Stepped Up Enforcement
Product Description:
Audio Conference on CD or Audio On-Demand
Sponsored by HIPAA E-learning Library and Guide to HIPAA Auditing, second edition
presented on April 29, 2009
HHS issued draft guidance on security breach notifications on April 17, providing the technologies and methodologies to help keep your patient data safe from a breach. Listen to HCPro for expert analysis on the 20-page report and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.
What the new HIPAA requirements mean to you
Listen to HCPro's 90-minute audio conference HIPAA and the Economic Stimulus Package: Strengthen Your Program for Stepped Up Enforcement. Speakers John Parmigiani, MS, BES (president, John C. Parmigiani & Associates), who helped create the HIPAA security rule, and healthcare privacy consultant Margret Amatayakul, RHIA, CPHS, CPHIT, CPEHR, FHIMSS (Margret\A Consulting) help you assess your facility's preparedness for the new requirements. You'll also receive tools to help with your HIPAA training. The speakers break down which areas of patient privacy will be the focus of government enforcement, as well as the consequences of noncompliance. They also provide detailed analysis on how to get government incentives for adopting EHRs.
TAKE A LOOK AT THE AGENDA:
- HIPAA and the HITECH
- How HITECH enhances HIPAA
- Key changes to HIPAA provisions
- Stronger enforcement by HHS
- New breach notification requirements
- Accounting of disclosure requests
- How much wiggle room will HHS have on interpreting laws into regulations?
- New business associate (BA) contracts
- Revisit your BA contracts
- Beef up the language in contract
- What's changed for BAs under new laws?
- Show me the money using EHR
- Moving to a qualified EHR
- Making meaningful use of EHR
- Quality reporting initiatives
- What do I need to do today?
- Analyze current compliance and training systems
- Are your current policies and procedures good enough?
- Structure a timeline for implementation
- Revisit health information exchanges and practices
- Coordinate a game plan for breach notification requirements with your state
- A question and answer session follows the presentation, allowing participants to ask specific questions of the expert speakers
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of this audio conference, you will be able to:
- Understand the scope of funding through ARRA and privacy and security enhancements available through HITECH
- Identify resources to keep current with the myriad guidelines and regulations that will be coming from the Federal government as a result of the ARRA and HITECH legislation
- Identify specific things you can do today to prepare to earn incentives and comply with Federal contract requirements to use designated standards
- Encourage participants to actively participate in providing "boots on the ground" feedback to ensure that final regulations meet user needs and help regulators and Congress better clarify intent and ease of implementation and compliance
BONUS TOOLS
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audio conference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and:
- Business associate identification tool to help people ensure they have all their BAs identified.
- A list of important dates/deadlines for HHS regulations included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
- Tools from the Guide to HIPAA Auditing, Second Edition, by Margret Amatayakul, RHIA, CHPS, FHMSS, CPEHR, FHIMSS
- Link to the complete text of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
MEET THE SPEAKERS
John Parmigiani, MS, BES, president, John C. Parmigiani & Associates, LLC (Ellicott City, MD). Parmigiani's primary focus is on helping healthcare organizations become compliant with healthcare regulations, in particular HIPAA, and move toward e-health. He has more than 35 years experience in information systems management in both the public and private sectors. During his tenure as director of what is now CMS, Parmigiani was instrumental in helping create the Security Rule, and was a member of the federal committee that oversaw the development and implementation of the HIPAA Transactions and Code Sets and the Privacy Rule.
Margret Amatayakul, RHIA, CPHS, CPHIT, CPEHR, FHIMSS, president, Margret\A Consulting (Schaumburg, IL). Amatayakul provides consulting services to hospitals, clinics, payers, health information exchange organizations, and federal advisory committees to help achieve clinical transformation through adoption of health information technology (HIT). She publishes and speaks extensively on electronic health records, the legal health record, personal health records, and privacy and security. She is the author of the HCPro book Guide to HIPAA Auditing: Practical Tools and Tips to Ensure Compliance, which has just been updated with new tools to address the HITECH Act within the stimulus package.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Professionals employed at hospitals and physician offices, as well as vendors developing EHRs and HIEs, and current or future business associates. The following titles should participate in this program:
- Privacy officer
- HIM director
- Compliance officer
- Security officer
- CIO/COO/CFO/CEO
- Grants coordinator
- Quality reporting officer
- Risk/legal department member
- Hospital/AMC board member
AUDIO ON-DEMAND
In addition to the regular purchase options for HCPro audio conferences, ive, CD, we are pleased to offer another option, audio on-demand. Audio on-demand allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through your computer or MP3 player. Purchase a CD or audio on-demand of the program and listen when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or a refresher for veteran staff.
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