Overview
With the recent upswing in information security breaches and increased threats such as hacking and portable devices, healthcare organizations are reviewing their compliance and making sure they have the proper policies, procedures, and safeguards in place. HIPAA Security Officers have been renewing their compliance activities and reviewing their documentation to make sure they can meet the challenges of the new rules and avoid breaches and penalties for compliance violations.
This session is designed to provide intensive, two-day training in HIPAA Security and Breach Notification Rule compliance, including what’s new in the regulations, what’s changed recently, and what needs to be addressed for compliance by covered entities and business associates. The session provides the background and details for any healthcare information security officer to know what are the most important security issues, what needs to be done for HIPAA compliance, and what can happen when compliance is not adequate. HIPAA Security safeguards will be detailed, and the role of risk analysis in effectively evaluating and implementing Security Rule compliance will be explained. Audits and enforcement will be explained, as well as security breaches and how to prevent them. Numerous references and sample documents will be provided.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the structure of the HIPAA Regulations and how they work together
- What has to be modified to meet the updated rules and how to interpret them
- Understand how to use Risk Analysis to make compliance decisions
- Know what safeguards must be considered to provide security for PHI
- Understand what makes a good information security policy
- Know how to respond to breaches and violations of Privacy and Security rules
- Learn how to discover risk issues through the review of breaches, audits, and enforcement actions
- Work through practical examples of risk analysis
- Learn how to deal with modern portable technologies and communication methods
- Understand how to use policies, documentation, training, and drills to prepare for audits and incidents, and achieve good compliance
Your Instructor
Jim Sheldon-Dean
Principal and Director of Compliance Services
Jim Sheldon-Dean Principal and Director of Compliance Services, Lewis Creek Systems, LLCJim Sheldon-Dean is the founder and director of compliance services at Lewis Creek Systems, LLC, a Vermont-based consulting firm founded in 1982, providing information privacy and security regulatory compliance services to a wide variety of health care entities. Mr. Sheldon-Dean serves on the HIMSS Information Systems Security Workgroup, has co-chaired the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange Privacy and Security Workgroup, and is a recipient of the WEDI 2011 Award of Merit. He is a frequent speaker regarding HIPAA and information privacy and security compliance issues at seminars and conferences, including speaking engagements at numerous regional and national healthcare association conferences and conventions and the annual NIST/OCR HIPAA Security Conference in Washington, D.C. He has more than 30 years of experience in policy analysis and implementation, business process analysis, information systems and software development. His experience includes leading the development of health care related Web sites; award-winning, best-selling commercial utility software; and mission-critical, fault-tolerant communications satellite control systems. In addition, he has eight years of experience doing hands-on medical work as a Vermont certified volunteer emergency medical technician. He received his B.S. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Vermont and his master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Who Will Benefit
This seminar will provide valuable assistance to personnel in: Medical offices, practice groups, hospitals, pharmacies, academic medical centers, medical devices, insurers, healthcare business associates (shredding, data storage, systems vendors, billing services, lawyers, etc.)
The titles are: - Compliance director
- CEO
- COO
- CFO
- Privacy Officer
- Security Officer
- Information Systems Manager
- HIPAA Officer
- Chief Information Officer
- Health Information Manager
- Healthcare Counsel/lawyer
- Office Manager
- Contracts Manager
Venue
MarriottFishermans Wharf , 1250 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco, California, USA
