HIPAA Planning for 2020 and Beyond - Protecting Patient Information Privacy and Security

Why Should You Attend:

This session will help you understand the current enforcement actions, audit focus, privacy, security and breach issues and the anticipated HIPAA regulatory changes. It will teach you how to plan HIPAA work for 2020 and beyond including responding to issues and day-to-day compliance tasks.

This webinar will examine the recent audit questions on the topic and guidance released by HHS. It will explore the HHS focus on giving patients access to their PHI. Patient access to data remains to be a key topic of focus at the US DHHS and can continue to be the central point of enforcement activity.

This webinar will present the key issues confronting HIPAA professionals and the processes required to prevent issues. You will learn how to contemplate risk analysis as a basis for planning your risk mitigation activities, and how to use simple tools to manage your compliance over time. The importance using controls in the regulations will be described by taking the example of what resulted because of not monitoring access to health information: a $5.5 million penalty for not monitoring access and allowing inappropriate access to continue for years unchecked.

Learn how to safeguard your office from Ransomware, the latest tool of the hackers and how to respond if you are targeted, by exploring the HHS and FBI guidance. You will also learn how to organize the best training and education to prevent these problems.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Recent focus of Audits and Enforcement activity
• How to be prepared for enforcement actions
• Risk Analysis and Risk Mitigation planning and execution
• The importance of monitoring access to PHI
• Handling Patient Access of PHI properly
• Being ready for Ransomware and responding properly if you’re hit
• How to manage portable devices, e-mail, texting, and encryption in a variety of circumstances
• New rules on the horizon: expected changes to Accounting of Disclosures and more

Who Will Benefit:

• Information Security Officers
• Risk Managers
• Compliance Officers
• Privacy Officer
• Health Information Managers
• Information Technology Managers
• Medical Office Managers
• Chief Financial Officers
• Systems Managers
• Legal Counsel
• Operations Directors
• Medical offices, practice groups, hospitals, academic medical centers, insurers, business associates (shredding, data storage, systems vendors, billing services, etc.)