This HIPAA compliance webinar will describe the changes to HIPAA privacy and security regulations and discuss how HIPAA covered entities will have to change their related and policies to ensure compliance.
This 90-minute webinar will review the new regulations and discuss their effects on usual practices. You will also learn what policies need to be changed and how. It will show what policies and evidence you need to produce if you are audited by the HHS Office of Civil Rights. Now that there is a legislative mandate to audit compliance, and a new random audit plan being implemented in 2014, you need to be prepared to respond to audit requests. It’s never been more important to review your HIPAA compliance and meet the new requirements. This session will describe the changes and the related policies that need modification for compliance with the new HIPAA rules.
Why Should You Attend:
The HIPAA privacy and security regulations have changed in ways that affect every health care-related entity, from providers to insurers to business associates, and more. The HIPAA Privacy and Security Regulations have been significantly modified from the former practices and the new final rules are now in effect. Policies and procedures at HIPAA entities must be modified to match the changes in the rules.This 90-minute webinar will review the new regulations and discuss their effects on usual practices. You will also learn what policies need to be changed and how. It will show what policies and evidence you need to produce if you are audited by the HHS Office of Civil Rights. Now that there is a legislative mandate to audit compliance, and a new random audit plan being implemented in 2014, you need to be prepared to respond to audit requests. It’s never been more important to review your HIPAA compliance and meet the new requirements. This session will describe the changes and the related policies that need modification for compliance with the new HIPAA rules.
Areas Covered in the Webinar:
- New regulations and their effects on usual practices as well as what policies need to be changed and how.
- What policies and evidence you need to produce if you are audited by the HHS Office of Civil Rights.
- The features that must be available in EHR systems.
- How the new regulations change the way individuals have access to their records, and how much they can find out about who has accessed their records.
- How Individuals can now request certain restrictions on disclosures that you must honor.
- New requirements for Business Associates (BAs) to comply with HIPAA privacy protections and security safeguards and how BAs are subject to enforcement and penalties directly by HHS.
- How new limitations on marketing and fund-raising may change and how entities can reach out to individuals.
- How new HIPAA random audit program and penalty requirements for violations increase the need to make sure you are in compliance before HHS OCR knocks on the door.
Who Will Benefit:
- This webinar will provide valuable assistance to all personnel in medical offices, practice groups, hospitals, academic medical centers, insurers, business associates (shredding, data storage, systems vendors, billing services, etc). The titles that will benefit are
- Compliance director
- CEO
- CFO
- Privacy Officer
- Security Officer
- Information Systems Manager
- HIPAA Officer
- Chief Information Officer
- Health Information Manager
- Healthcare Counsel/lawyer
- Office Manager
- Contracts Manager
Course Provider
Jim Sheldon-Dean,
