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GlobalCompliancePanel, Online Training Webinar
2011-04-07
Overview: HIPAA Business Associate rules have changed in fundamental ways, with new responsibilities and obligations for HIPAA BAs. The session will provide attendees the following tools, benefits, and solutions: - The audience will learn how business associates are now handled under the law and the proposed regulations and what has changed from the old rules.
- The suggested and required content for a compliant business associate agreement will be presented.
- Issues of how to assign liability and costs in the event of a breach will be discussed.
- Current BAs will learn what they have to do to get their contractors established as their business associates.
- BAs will discover the new obligations on them to ensure their clients comply with HIPAA in their dealings with the BA.
- BAs will learn how to be prepared for compliance audits and avoid the mandatory penalties for willful neglect of compliance.
Areas Covered In the Seminar: - Learn about the new requirements for HIPAA Business Associates
- Find out what has changed for Business Associates
- Learn how the definition of BA has been significantly expanded
- Learn what goes into a proper Business Associate Agreement
- Find out about the new, higher enforcement penalties
- Learn about the new violation categories
- Learn about being prepared for a HIPAA Compliance Audit
Agenda: - Old Ways, New Ways - Changes to the Rules
- Origins of Changes to Business Associate Rules
- New Definitions of Business Associates
- Contractors of Business Associates
- New Requirements and Changed Requirements for HIPAA Business Associates
- HITECH Act Required Capabilities
- Required Amendments to BAAs
- BAA Provisions to Consider
- Transitioning to the New Rules
- Enforcement and Audits
- New HIPAA Violation Categories
- New HIPAA Penalty Structure
- Preparing for HIPAA Audits
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
- Contracts Manager
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Invited Speakers:
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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 health care firms and businesses throughout the Northeast and nationally. Sheldon-Dean’s firm provides a variety of advisory, training, assessment, policy development, project management and mitigation services for a number 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. He serves on the HIMSS Information Systems Security Workgroup, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange Privacy and Security Workgroup, and co-chairs the WEDI HIPAA Updates sub-workgroup. He is a frequent speaker regarding HIPAA and information privacy and security compliance issues at seminars and conferences, including speaking engagements at AHIMA national conventions and WEDI national conferences, and before the New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, Health Information Management Associations of New York City, New York State, and Vermont, the Connecticut Hospital Association, and the Hospital and Health System Association of Pennsylvania. Sheldon-Dean has nearly 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.
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Deadline for Abstracts:
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2011-04-07
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Registration:
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Price List:
Live : $165.00
Corporate live : $695.00
Recorded : $215.00
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E-mail:
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webinars@GlobalCompliancePanel.com
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