NEW PATIENT RIGHTS UNDER HIPAA - MEETING THE NEW H 2013 - New Patient Rights Under HIPAA - Meeting the new HIPAA rules for Patient Access and Requests for Restrictions - Webinar By MentorHealth

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Category Healthcare

Deadline: May 07, 2013 | Date: May 07, 2013

Venue/Country: Online healthcare training, U.S.A

Updated: 2013-04-29 17:31:55 (GMT+9)

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Why should you attend:

The HIPAA Privacy and Security Regulations are changing in ways that affect health care providers and their patients significantly. Patients have new rights of access to and restrictions on the use of Protected Health Information (PHI) by HIPAA-covered healthcare providers, and those providers also have additional changes to the allowable uses and disclosures of that PHI. The new rules are in effect as of March 26, 2013, and enforceable by September 23, 2013.

All HIPAA-covered providers need to review their HIPAA compliance, policies, and procedures to see if they are prepared to meet the changes in the rules. Compliance is required and violations for willful neglect of the rules begin at $10,000.

Changes in marketing regulations are creating new obligations and limiting behaviors that may already be in place.

New regulations around the release of electronic records and the restriction of disclosures are creating new burdens that your EHR and your medical records department must deal with. You will even have to update your HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices to show how you support the new patient rights under HIPAA as amended by HITECH.

The enforcement rules have changed, with a new four-tier violation schedule with increased minimum and maximum fines, and mandatory fines for willful neglect of compliance that start at $10,000 even if the problem is corrected within 30 days of discovery. Violations that are not promptly corrected carry mandatory minimum fines starting at $50,000 and can reach $1.5 million for any particular violation. And any reports of willful neglect are required to be investigated under the law. Even violations for a reasonable cause or with reasonable diligence taken are subject to penalty.

Areas Covered in the Session:

The new regulations will be reviewed and their effects on usual practices will be discussed, as well as what policies need to be changed and how.

We 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 random audit plan under way, you need to be prepared to respond to audit requests.

The features that must be available in EHR systems and the questions to ask system vendors will be described. The processes for responding to requests for copies of electronic records and restrictions of disclosures will be related to the regulations that require them.

Learn how the new regulations change the way individuals have access to their records.

Find out about how Individuals can now request certain restrictions on disclosures that you must honor.

Learn about the new requirements for disclosers of health information to apply "minimum necessary" standards.

Find out about how new limitations on marketing and fund-raising may change how entities can reach out to individuals.

Learn all about how new audit and penalty requirements increase the need to make sure you are in compliance before HHS OCR knocks on the door.

Who Will Benefit:

Compliance director

CEO

CFO

Privacy Officer

Security Officer

Information Systems Manager

HIPAA Officer

Chief Information Officer

Health Information Manager

Healthcare Counsel/lawyer

Office Manager

Colorado Foundation for Medical Care (CFMC) hosts an online activity evaluation system, certificate and outcomes measurement process. Following the activity, you must link to CFMC’s online site (link below) to complete the evaluation form in order to receive your certificate of credit. Once the evaluation form is complete and submitted, you will be automatically sent a copy of your certificate via email. Please note, participants must attend the entire activity to receive all types of credit. Continuing Education evaluation and request for certificates will be accepted up to 60 days post activity date. CFMC will keep a record of attendance on file for 6 years. Link address to evaluation form: www.yourcesource.com/eval?act=752!05072013

Jim 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 variety of health care providers, businesses, universities, small and large hospitals, urban and rural mental health and social service agencies, health insurance plans, and health care business associates.

Sheldon-Dean serves on the HIMSS Information Systems Security Workgroup, has co-chaired the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange Privacy and Security Workgroup, serves on the WEDI Breach Notification sub-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.

Sheldon-Dean 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. Sheldon-Dean received his B.S. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Vermont and his master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.