This training program will be address how practice/business managers (or compliance officers) 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.
New laws and funding mean increased risk for both business associates and covered entities.
HIPAA Omnibus - Do you know what’s involved and what you need to do?
What does Omnibus mean for covered entities and business associates?
Why should you be concerned?
Court cases that are changing the landscape of HIPAA and patient’s ability to sue.
There are an enormous amount of issues and risks for covered entities and business associates these days. The webinar speaker will draw from his 17 years’ experience as a compliance auditor, and as an expert witness on HIPAA cases, and thoroughly explain how patients are now able to get cash remedies for wrongful disclosures of private health information. Further, he will illustrate how to limit those risks by simply taking proactive steps and utilizing best practices.
Why Should You Attend:
Do you have an affective HIPAA compliance program?New laws and funding mean increased risk for both business associates and covered entities.
HIPAA Omnibus - Do you know what’s involved and what you need to do?
What does Omnibus mean for covered entities and business associates?
Why should you be concerned?
Court cases that are changing the landscape of HIPAA and patient’s ability to sue.
There are an enormous amount of issues and risks for covered entities and business associates these days. The webinar speaker will draw from his 17 years’ experience as a compliance auditor, and as an expert witness on HIPAA cases, and thoroughly explain how patients are now able to get cash remedies for wrongful disclosures of private health information. Further, he will illustrate how to limit those risks by simply taking proactive steps and utilizing best practices.
Areas Covered in the Webinar:
- Updates for 2016
- Factors which can get you audited
- Business associates
- How to avoid an audit
- HIPAA and suing
- Risks
- NIST based risk assessment
Who Will Benefit:
- Practice managers
- Any business associates who work with medical practices or hospitals (i.e. billing companies, transcription companies, IT companies, answering services, home health, coders, attorneys, etc.)
- MDs and other medical professionals
Course Provider
Brian Tuttle,
