HIPAA Compliance in Transactions

This HIPAA compliance training will discuss topics such as protected health information (PHI), patient rights, privacy and security policies, business associates, notice of privacy practices, PHI rights of individuals and many more. Attendees will learn how to ensure HIPAA compliance to avoid penalties.

Why Should You Attend:

With the passage of the HIPAA standards, healthcare providers, data workers and patients have unique roles and responsibilities to protect healthcare data and to provide data in accordance with published standards. Failure to abide by HIPAA standards can result in significant penalties and consequences for healthcare providers, data workers, and for patients.

HIPAA plays a key role in healthcare industry and with the ongoing expansion of health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the need to understand the nuances and subtleties of the standards is greater than ever. Keen attention must be paid to protecting transmission of healthcare data and communication of the protected data in accordance with standards.

This webinar will explain HIPAA guidelines, privacy and security policies. It will discuss roles and responsibilities of analyst and how to ensure HIPAA compliance to avoid penalties.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• What is HIPAA?
• Who is subject to HIPAA?
• Protected Health Information (PHI)
• Patient rights
• Business Associates
• HIPAA Privacy
• Notice of Privacy Practices
• Reasonable Safeguards
• Using PHI for Marketing
• HIPAA Security
• Administrative Safeguards
• Physical Safeguards
• Technical Safeguards
• Electronic transactions and code sets
• Handling PHI
• Security Breach
• PHI Rights of Individuals
• Enforcement of HIPAA

Who Will Benefit:

• HealthCare Professionals
• Data Analyst
• Business Analyst (HealthCare)
• HealthCare Providers
• Doctors
• Patients who should know their rights
• HealthCare companies that involve in data transactions regularly and are being impacted by Compliance requirements.

Instructor Profile:

Dr. James Millar, has worked in the healthcare industry for many years, first as and IT Auditor for the Bureau of Tenncare in Tennessee, then as a Senior Business Analyst at Cigna-Healthspring. His experience ranges from all aspects of encounter and claim data, from membership and eligibility to claim balancing, and many of the primary healthcare data transactions, from 270/271, 837 P/I/D, 834, 835, as well as NCPDP claim data. He has worked as a fraud data analyst, claim data analyst and compliance expert in the healthcare industry. Prior to his work in the healthcare industry Dr. Millar was an Economics instructor at both Rend Lake College and Southern Illinois University.