New Finalized HITECH Amendments to HIPAA - How Policies and Practices Must Be Changed

Why Should You Attend:

New regulations around the release and accounting of electronic records are creating new burdens that your EHR and your medical records department must deal with. There are new patient rights and new provider obligations. 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.

This 90-minute session will review the new regulations and discuss their effects on usual practices, as well as, what policies need to be changed and how. The presenter will explain 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 well under way, 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.

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

• 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 discuss 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 will be described.
• Learn 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.
• 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.
• Understand the new requirements for Business Associates to comply with HIPAA privacy protections and security safeguards and how BAs are subject to enforcement and penalties directly by HHS.
• 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.