The secret is -
HIPAA Rules are easy and routine to follow - when they are explained step-by-step in plain language. In this seminar Paul Hales will capture your attention with visual presentations, discussion and learning exercises and show how to find the right rule with the step-by-step procedures you need when you need them.
Seminar Takeaways
Thorough Understanding of
HIPAA Rules
- What they are
- How they work together
- Why and How they were made
- How they are changing and what to expect next
HIPAA Risk Analysis - Risk Management for Your Organization
- A Practical Guided Exercise done in class on your computer to take home
Privacy and Security Rules - Permitted and Required Uses and Disclosures
- What information must be protected
- Administrative, Technical and Physical Safeguards
- Social Media, Texting and Emailing Patients
The inter-connected, inter-dependent relationship of Covered Entities and Business Associates
- Business Associate HIPAA compliance responsibilities
- The importance of Due Diligence and how to do it
- How to avoid making a Business Associate your Agent by mistake
- The chain of responsibility from Covered Entity to Business Associate to Subcontractor Business Associate, etc.
- Business Associate responsibilities for Subcontractor Business Associates
- Breach Notification discovery and reporting by Business Associates and Subcontractor Business Associates
What is - and what is not a Reportable Breach of Unsecured PHI
- Potential Breach Investigation - Breach Exceptions
- Ransomware
- Breach Risk Assessment
- Breach Prevention
Why should you attend:
Phase 2 Audits have begun and the priorities are still being missed by covered entities and business associates.
- Does your organization have an accurate and up to date Notice of Privacy Practices?
- Has a Risk Analysis been done in a reasonable and appropriate manner?
- Are you managing your risks and implementing policies that are documented?
- Do you have policies in place for discovering a breach and notifying those affected in a timely and documented manner?
In this 2-day seminar, the simple steps to HIPAA compliance will be discussed so that your organization is prepared to address the prioritites of the Office of Civil Rights' Phase 2 Audits.
Speaker
Paul R. Hales, J.D.
Paul R. Hales, Attorney at Law, LLC
Paul R. Hales received his Juris Doctor degree from Columbia University Law School and is licensed to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States. He focuses on HIPAA Privacy, Security, Breach Noti?cation and Enforcement law. Mr. Hales conducts a national HIPAA consulting and education practice based in St. Louis. He is the author of all content in The HIPAA E-Tool®, an Internet-based, complete HIPAA Software as a Service product for health care providers and business associates.
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Time: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
The agenda is available as PDF under downloads at the right side of the page.
Venue
Four Points By Sheraton San Diego Downtown
1617 1st Ave, 92101
San Diego, CA, USA
Who Will Benefit:
- Health Care Provider - Business Associate
- Health Care Provider Practice Manager
- Risk Manager - Compliance Manager
- Information Systems Manager
- Compliance Director
- Practice Manager
- Privacy Officer
- Security Officer
- CEO
- CFO
- COO
- Chief Information Officer
- Health Information Manager
- Healthcare Legal Counsel
- Office Manager
- Contracts Manager
- Chief Clinical Officer
- Human Resources
Venue
Four Points By Sheraton San Diego Downtown1617 1st Avenue
San Diego, California, 92101
