Role and Responsibilities of the HIPAA Compliance Officer 2014

Key Topics

• Requirements under HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification rules will be explained
• The regulations and recent changes to them will be reviewed and their effects on usual practices will be discussed, as well as what policies need to be in place
• 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 processes you must use when patients ask to use their rights of access, amendment, and accounting of disclosures
• The processes for responding to requests for copies of electronic records and restrictions of disclosures will be related to the regulations that require them
• The features that must be available in EHR systems and the questions to ask of system vendors will be described
• How new limitations on marketing and fund-raising may change how entities can reach out to individuals
• New requirements for disclosers of health information to apply "minimum necessary" standards
• How new audit and penalty requirements increase the need to make sure you are in compliance before HHS OCR knocks on the door

Who should Attend

• CEOs
• Compliance directors
• Privacy Officers
• CFOs
• Information Systems Managers
• Security Officers
• Chief Information Officers
• HIPAA Officers
• Healthcare Counsel/lawyers
• Health Information Managers
• Contracts Managers
• Office Managers