Webinar: HIPAA and the Compliance Officer
MentorHealth will present a webinar, HIPAA and the Compliance Officer, addressing how practice/business managers (or compliance offers) need to get their HIPAA house in order before the imminent audits occur.
The 90-minute event will be Wednesday, August 9, 2017, 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT).
The webinar also will address major changes under the Omnibus Rule and any other applicable updates for 2017. Areas also covered will be texting, email, encryption, medical messaging, voice data and risk factors as they relate to IT.
On its website, MentorHealth says the primary goal is to ensure everyone is well educated on what is myth and what is reality with this law.
“I will uncover myths versus reality as it relates to this very enigmatic law based on over 1000 risk assessments performed as well as years of experience in dealing directly with the Office of Civil Rights HIPAA auditors,” says instructor Brian Tuttle. “I will also speak to real life litigated cases I have worked where HIPAA is being used to justify state cases of negligence -THIS IS BECOMING A HUGE RISK! In addition, this course will cover the highest risk factors for being sued as well as being audited (these two items tend to go hand in hand).”
Topics will include:
- Do you have an affective HIPAA compliance program?
- New laws and funding mean increased risk for both business associates and covered entities
- HIPAA Omnibus – Do you know what’s involved and what you need to do?
- What does Omnibus mean for covered entities and business associates?
- Why should you be concerned?
- Court cases that are changing the landscape of HIPAA and patient’s ability to sue
“It is important to understand the new changes going on at Health and Human Services as it relates to enforcement of HIPAA for both covered entities and business associates as it relates to what we need to do as compliance officers,” according to Tuttle. “You need to know how to avoid being low hanging fruit in terms of audit risk as well as being sued by individuals who have had their PHI wrongfully discloses due to bad IT or internal administrative practices.”
Speaker Profile
Brian L Tuttle, CPHIT, CHP, CBRA, Net+, A+, CCNA, MCP is a Certified Professional in Health IT (CPHIT), Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP), Certified Business Resilience Auditor (CBRA) with over 15 years’ experience in Health IT and Compliance Consulting.
