Significant Changes Required by the Final Omnibus Rules

Summary: Holly Schlenvogt, a privacy and security consultant, will be the speaker of a webinar that MentorHealth, a leading provider of continuing professional education for the healthcare industry, is organizing on May 13. The topic of this webinar is "Significant Changes Required by the Final Omnibus Rules: What Key Changes You Should Have in Place Now".

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Description:

This webinar helps Covered Entities and Business Associates understand what key changes they should have in place in relation to HIPAA privacy, as well as breach notification rules and some minor changes to the Security Rule now, based upon the final Omnibus Rules.

It is important for organizations to understand what to put in place to be in compliance with the final Omnibus Rules, because doing it without knowing what to implement can be very time consuming, confusing and frustrating.

Many organizations are still struggling to figure out what they need to do to be in compliance with the original HIPAA rules. Since the compliance date of the final Omnibus Rules has come and gone; any organization that has not reviewed and updated its HIPAA compliance program is at risk of penalties, such as fines and corrective action plans.

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is increasingly penalizing organizations for they investigate incidents reported by patients and employees. In addition, the OCR will likely resume its random audit program, which could also result in penalties. One strong, common reason for OCR penalties is not having appropriately documented and implemented policies and procedures.

This webinar will help participants learn what significant changes they should put in place to avoid being penalized. This is important because the final Omnibus Rules extended liability to Business Associates and require them to comply with most of the HIPAA rules. Essentially, the OCR may audit, investigate, and slap them with penalties.

This webinar will cover the following areas:

• Applicability
• Breach notification rule
• Business Associates
• Privacy rule
• Security rule
• Penalties
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When: May 13, 10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT

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By whom:

Holly Schlenvogt is a privacy and security consultant who has worked with the HIPAA privacy and security rules for over eleven years. Holly has over 20 years of diverse health care experience in a variety of patient care settings.

Active with HIPAA Collaborative of Wisconsin (HIPAA COW) since 2002, Holly is currently a Board member, the Executive Vice President, and on the Privacy & Security networking groups. She also leads their Risk Management networking group which wrote the HIPAA COW Security Risk Analysis & Risk Management Toolkit.

At a national level, she is on several privacy and security networking groups with other Regional Extension Centers which create resources to help organizations meet the privacy and security meaningful use requirements. She has spoken at several conferences and webinars.

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Who will benefit:

This webinar will benefit

• Privacy Officers and their employees
• Compliance Officers and their employees
• Risk Managers and their employees
• Health Information Management leaders and staff (HIM)
• Health care attorneys
• Clinic Managers/Directors
• Privacy and security consultants
• Business Associates and subcontractors
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Duration: 60 minutes

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To enroll for this webinar, contact

webinars@mentorhealth.com

Ph: 800-385-1607

Fax: 302-288-6884

http://bit.ly/1h0ShMP

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