How to Meet HIPAA-HITECH Encryption Requirements - Webinar By ComplianceOnline 2011

Why Should You Attend:

HIPAA`s existing privacy and security regulations do not include a definition of unsecured protected health information!! The HITECH Act therefore required the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue guidance specifying the technologies and methodologies that render protected health information "unusable, unreadable or indecipherable" to unauthorized persons.

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is significantly raising the ante for HIPAA Security compliance. Incredibly, arguably the majority of Covered Entities (CEs) appearing on the OCR Data Breach Notification website or "Wall of Shame" ( http://ow.ly/42eW0 ) would not be there if proper encryption solutions been deployed.

Secured electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) essentially means the ePHI has been encrypted. (It also may mean it has been rendered inaccessible = destroyed).

Attend this webinar to understand HIPAA Security Final Rule and HITECH Act Data Breach Notification Interim Final Rule requirements for encryption and the safe-harbor provided by "securing" Protected Health Information (PHI).

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

In this live session, we will:

• Define "secured" and "unsecured" ePHI and other key terms.
• Review HIPAA and HITECH encryption requirements.
• Discuss PCI DSS and state laws` encryption requirements.
• Provide practical, actionable steps to evaluate encryption alternatives.
• Present encryption solutions to consider.