Key Factors to Write HIPAA Compliance Policies

Summary: "Key Factors to Write HIPAA Compliance Policies" is the topic of a webinar that MentorHealth, a leading provider of continuing professional education for the healthcare industry, is organizing on May 1. Alice M. McCart, a senior editor and freelance editor and tutor, will be the speaker at this webinar.

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Description:

This webinar will explain the process for covered entities and business associates to use to draft, adopt, and implement HIPAA compliance policies.

Failure to perform these –a) a written risk analysis, b) develop required policies, and c) conduct adequate HIPAA training –constitutes a lion’s share of DHHS civil money penalties and settlements in lieu thereof. These penalties usually are in the seven-figure range.

All of these qualify as "willful neglect", which carries the highest Civil Money Penalty (CMP), for which penalty cannot be waived by DHHS as can violations due to a reasonable cause. A famous example that comes to mind is one in which the DHHS entered into a settlement with Massachusetts General Hospital for $1 million for a breach involving leaving paper PHI records on a subway. The reason given for the harshness of this penalty is that Massachusetts General had not trained its workforce on proper security for PHI taken offsite and did not have a work-at-home policy.

All these point to the fact that a healthcare organization can afford to be ignorant of HIPAA compliance policies only at its own peril. This webinar will offer deep insights into the way HIPAA is formulated and needs to be adhered to. It will encourage participants to ask questions, solicit help, and collect samples, and teach them to keep the principles of substance, organization, coherence, style, and correctness in mind while they are drafting, sending the draft out for review, incorporating comments, implementing the policy, and repeating as necessary.

The prospect of developing and writing perhaps as many as 70 policies to attain HIPAA compliance may still seem daunting, but this webinar will offer practical and simple guidelines on how to make a checklist, take it step by step, and enlist the help of others when needed.

This webinar will cover the following areas:

• Preliminaries
• Researching
• Drafting
• Revising
• Questions and answers
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When: May 1, 10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT

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By whom:

Alice M. McCart has been an editor for more than three decades and an attorney admitted to practice law in Illinois since 1993. She has Master’s degrees in teaching and journalism and enjoys freelance editing, tutoring, and teaching effective writing to adults.

She has held positions in the federal government, in professional associations, in the corporate world, in private law practice, and in HIPAA consulting. She works with the law firm of Tomes & Dvorak, Chartered, the HIPAA consulting firm EMR Legal, Inc., and the publishing company Veterans Press, Inc.

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Who will benefit:

This webinar 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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Duration: 90 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/1kERG1f

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