HIPAA Internal Sanctions: Adapt Your Policy to Comply with the HITECH Act
Product Description:
AUDIO CONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ON-DEMAND
Sponsored by HIPAA E-learning Library; Guide to HIPAA Auditing, 2nd Edition
presented on December 3, 2009
HIPAA requires you, as a covered entity, to impose sanctions consistently with comparable discipline for comparable violations. The specifics of your policy and procedures around breaches are up to your organization. Learn how to create compliant and effective policies, enforce them, and make proper notification when a breach occurs.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of this audio conference, you will be able to:
- Describe new penalty tiers under the HITECH Act and how they affect the sanction policy
- Revise or develop a new sanction policy
- Explain how to create and apply consistent sanctions for privacy breaches
- Determine appropriate sanctions for various privacy breaches
AGENDA
- Mechanisms for assigning appropriate sanctions for privacy breaches
- Levels of punitive measures
- Consistent application of sanctions
- Determination of cause of breach
- HIPAA sanctions guidance document
- Necessary language
- Involvement of human resources
- Breach notification interim final rule
- Sanction recommendations based on HITECH Act
- Reporting to HHS
- Staff training on sanctions
- Consideration of organizational culture
- Examples of real breaches and responses
A question and answer session follows the presentation.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
This program has been approved for 1 continuing education unit for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Credits expire on December 3, 2010.
This program has prior approval of the American Academy of Professional Coders for 1.5 Continuing Education Units. Granting of this approval in no way constitutes endorsement by the Academy of the program, content or the program sponsor. Credits expire on November 30, 2010.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Dena Boggan, CPC, CMC, CCP, is HIPAA privacy/security officer at St Dominic Jackson Memorial Hospital in Jackson, MS. She has twenty years of healthcare experience as a regulatory specialist, practice manager and coder.
Nancy Davis, MS, RHIA, is director of privacy/security at Ministry Health Care in Milwaukee, WI. She has leadership experience in health information management, quality assessment, risk management, accreditation, safety, and compliance.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Privacy officers, security officers, compliance officers, HIM directors, CIOs, human resource directors, practice managers, risk management professionals, business associates.
PROGRAM MATERIALS
Program materials are provided with PDF links.
In addition to the materials, you will also receive:
- Recommended HIPAA sanctions for privacy and security violations for workforce members
- Matrix of penalty examples
- Privacy and security sanctions guidelines
- Matrices of comparison between current HIPAA regulations and new HIPAA changes, and notification of breach
AUDIO ON-DEMAND
In addition to the regular purchase options for HCPro audio conferences, 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 as a refresher for veteran staff.
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