HIPAA Audits and Enforcement - Using the HIPAA Audit Protocol to Improve Compliance and Avoid Penalties 2013

Key Topics

• Learn how to make the HIPAA Audit Protocol useful to you as a way to organize and track your compliance work, and collect your documentation references
• Find out what the audit process is, what HHS OCR is likely to ask you if you are selected for an audit, and what you`ll have to have prepared already when they do
• Learn how to use an information security management process to evaluate risks and make decisions about how best to protect PHI and meet patient needs and desires
• Find out what you`ll need to have documented to survive an audit and avoid fines
• Learn about the training and education that must take place and be documented to ensure your staff uses health information properly and does not risk exposure of PHI
• Find out what policies and procedures you should have in place
• Learn about how the HIPAA audit and enforcement activities are now being increased and how you must be prepared or risk significant penalties
• Find out the steps that must be followed in the event of a breach of PHI

Who should Attend

• CEO
• Compliance Director
• Privacy Officer
• CFO
• Information Systems Manager
• Security Officer
• Chief Information Officer
• HIPAA Officer
• Healthcare Counsel/lawyer
• Health Information Manager
• Office Manager