Overview:

Day One: Research of Your Operations - How do you use PHI and what policies and procedures do you have for Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification? Understand your operations and information flows, and the ways you use or disclose PHI.

Day Two: Limitations on Uses and Disclosures - Establish the proper limitations according to the Privacy Rule, including requirements for Business Associates, handling authorizations, and required processes for uses and disclosures of PHI under HIPAA.

Day Three: Patient Rights under HIPAA - Make sure the processes are defined and in place for providing opportunities to access, amend, and restrict uses of PHI, to ask for an accounting of disclosures of PHI, to request alternative means or methods of communication, and to receive a Notice of Privacy Practices.

Day Four: HIPAA Risk Analysis - Look at how you handle information, identify the risk issues, and decide their priority for mitigation.

Day Five: HIPAA Security Safeguards - Decide what safeguards you will use to address the various Security issues and start implementing physical, technical, and administrative safeguards.

Day Six: HIPAA Security and Breach Notification Policies and Procedures - Adopt a thorough process for managing, evaluating, and acting on any incidents involving PHI and breaches of PHI.

Day Seven: Documentation of Policies and Procedures - All the things you've been doing need to be properly documented so you can show compliance. Just creating documentation alone is easily a day's work.

Day Eight: Training in Policies and Procedures Related to HIPAA - Once you have your HIPAA policies and procedures ready, you can begin training staff on your own policies and procedures relating to privacy, security, and breach notification.

Day Nine: Verification and Audits of Compliance - Implementation of HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification compliance should be regularly evaluated to ensure that policies are being followed and systems are secured.

Day Ten: Long Term Compliance Planning and Risk Management - To establish and maintain compliance, it is essential to implement one- time actions, to schedule compliance activities that should take place regularly, and to identify that which can trigger the need for security maintenance and risk management activities.

Why should you Attend: It is essential today to regularly review your HIPAA compliance to make sure you are staying up with rule changes and are prepared to answer questions from inspectors or investigators. This 90- minute session will step through the basics of HIPAA compliance and identify current compliance issues that should be addressed to ensure a clean report in any reviews. The topic of HIPAA compliance will be covered in a format of "10 Days to HIPAA Compliance" wherein focusing the work to be done according to 10 topic areas helps ensure the essential issues are considered. While compliance may take more than 10 days of effort depending on the organization, the 10 topic areas focus the work of the HIPAA Privacy or Security Officer so that progress in compliance can be made and documented.

Being in compliance with HIPAA involves not only ensuring you provide the appropriate patient rights and controls on your uses and disclosures, but also that you ensure you have the right policies, procedures, and documentation, and have performed the appropriate analysis of the risks to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic Protected Health Information. Doing so is essential to protect your PHI from exposure through accidental acts, such as a loss of a device holding data, or intentional acts, including the recent increases in attacks of health information by hackers.

The session will include a discussion of the various HIPAA- defined safeguards that must be considered, and the kinds of policies and procedures that must me implemented, in order to properly comply with the rules and protect the privacy and security of PHI from accidental or intentional exposure, misuse, or improper disclosure.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Find out how to relate your office's activities to the regulations
• Learn what are the ways you can share information under HIPAA, and the ways you may not
• Find out about HIPAA requirements for access and patient preferences, as well as the requirements to protect PHI
• Learn how to use an information security management process to evaluate risks and make decisions about how best to protect PHI and meet patient needs and desires
• Find out what policies and procedures you should have in place for dealing with e- mail and texting, as well as any new technology
• Learn about the training and education that must take place to ensure your staff uses e- mail and texting properly and does not risk exposure of PHI
• Find out the steps that must be followed in the event of a breach of PHI
• Learn about how the HIPAA audit and enforcement activities are now being increased and what you need to do to survive a HIPAA audit

• Compliance Director
• CEO
• CFO
• Privacy Officer
• Security Officer
• Information Systems Manager
• HIPAA Officer
• Chief Information Officer
• Health Information Manager
• Healthcare Counsel/Lawyer
• Office Manager