Patient Rights, Medical Records and HIPAA 2017

Training Options  Duration: 60 Minutes  

Thursday, March 9, 2017   |   10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT

Overview: 

Being in compliance with HIPAA involves not only ensuring you provide the appropriate patient rights and controls on your uses and disclosures of protected health information, but you also have the proper policies and procedures in place. If audited or the subject of a compliance review you will be required to show the government you have all the necessary documentation in place for safeguarding patient Protected Health Information and indicate how you addressed all required privacy safeguards. This starts with the fundamentals of understanding a patient's rights to access their health information under HIPAA.

If your healthcare practice needs to understand what your responsibilities are regarding patient rights and access under HIPAA or make sure the current process is adequate and can withstand government scrutiny, please join us for this informative and interactive course. 

Why should you Attend: 

With a substantial increase HIPAA data breaches and increased government enforcement, organizations must understand patient's rights for access to their health records under the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Attendees will leave the course clearly understanding of all the requirements that must be in place for meeting this rule for the protection of personal health information their organizations maintain, create, transmit, or store. 

After completing this course, a healthcare provider will have a clear understanding for what needs to be place when it comes to meeting these HIPAA requirements for medical records . 

Areas Covered in the Session:

Why was HIPAA created?

Who Must Comply with HIPAA Requirements?

What is the HIPAA Privacy Rule?

What is Protected Health Information

What are Permitted and Authorized Disclosures?

What are Rights do Patients have under HIPAA?

What is a HIPAA data breach and what happens if it occurs?

What are the penalties and fines for non-compliance and how to avoid them?

Questions

Who Will Benefit:

Compliance Officer

HIPAA Privacy Officer

HIPAA Security Officer

Medical/Dental Office Managers

Practice Managers

Information Systems Manager

Chief Information Officer

General Counsel/lawyer

Practice Management Consultants

Speaker Profile :

Jay Hodes president of Colington Security Consulting, LLC, which provides HIPAA consulting services for healthcare providers and business associates. Mr. Hodes has over 30 years of combined experience in risk assessments, site security evaluation, regulatory compliance, policy and procedures assessments, and federal law enforcement management. He is the former Assistant Inspector General for Investigations at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 

Mr. Hodes has been the keynote speaker and provided presentations regarding HIPAA compliance to a number of professional healthcare organizations. He has published over 30 educational articles regarding HIPAA compliance, been featured in Part B news articles and provided a guest post for the Electronic Health Reporter.

Price : $139.00 

Contact Info:

MentorHealth

Phone No: 1-800-385-1607

FaX: 302-288-6884 

support@mentorhealth.com