Description

This 90-minute webinar will be addressing how practice/business managers (or compliance offers) need to get their HIPAA house in order as HIPAA HITECH is now fully enforced with bipartisan support.
 
It will also address new congressional mandates, and the major changes and updates for 2026 and beyond – both for the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the HIPAA Security Rule.  This will also include “proposed” changes to be on the look out for.

We will be discussing current breaches, most common breaches, telemedicine, texting, emailing, and the OCR audit process.   

There’s an enormous number of issues and risks for covered entities and business associates these days – we will speak to the most common violations and fines – and how to best avoid fines and headaches.  
 
I will speak on specific experiences from over 23 years of experience in working as an outsourced compliance auditor, expert witness on multiple HIPAA cases, and thoroughly explain how patients are now able to get cash remedies for wrongful disclosures of private health information.   
More importantly I will show you how to limit those risks by simply taking proactive steps and utilizing best practices.

Areas Covered in the Session:

•    HIPAA Administrative Simplification Updates (Privacy Rule and Security Rule)
•    NPRM’s for the HIPAA Security Rule
•    Updates for the HPAA Privacy Rule
•    Rights of Access
•    Care Coordination
•    Information Sharing
•    Notice of Privacy Practices
•    21st Century Cures Act
•    Telemedicine (Do’s and Don’ts)
•    Fines
•    Portable devices
•    Texting and Emailing – new guidelines 
•    New Definition of protected health information 
•    Real life audits and litigated cases
•    Business associates and the increased burden
•    Breach notification
•    Risk factors    

Who will benefit: 
•    Practice managers
•    Any business associates who work with medical practices or hospitals (i.e. billing companies, transcription companies, IT companies, answering services, home health, coders, attorneys, etc)
•    MD’s and other medical professionals

Target Companies:  

•    Private practice
•    Hospitals
•    Billing companies
•    Transcriptions companies
•    Home health groups
•    Health insurance 
•    Ambulatory
•    IT companies
•    Attorneys