March 25 HIPAA Privacy & Security Update Webinar
March 19, 2009
Health care providers, health plans, health care clearinghouses (“covered entities”) and their business associates must act quickly to update and strengthen their privacy and data security practices to comply with changing rules and guard against growing enforcement exposures.
The privacy and data security practices of Covered Entities are under fire on several fronts. The payment by CVS Pharmacies, Inc. of $2.25 Million settlement to resolve charges it violated existing Privacy & Security Rules and other recent civil and criminal enforcement actions demonstrate Covered Entities, their employees and service providers already face significant risks when existing HIPAA and other privacy and data security requirements are violated. Meanwhile, Covered Entities face new restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of protected health information, new data breach and business associate agreement contract requirements, state civil lawsuits and expanded criminal and civil penalty exposures and other new risks under impending changes to the Privacy & Security Standards of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) enacted under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA), the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the “Stimulus Bill”) and other federal rule changes. These and other recent developments make clear that covered entities and their employees, business associates and other workforce members must immediately get serious about compliance with the Privacy & Security Rules and other federal and state privacy and data security requirements.
Catch up on the latest amendments, enforcement trends and other HIPAA Privacy & Data Security Rule developments by participating in this two hour “HIPAA Privacy & Security Update Webinar” on March 25, 2009 beginning at Noon Central Time hosted by Solutions Law Press. Learn what you and your organization need to know to comply with new requirements and manage HIPAA compliance while getting valuable training that will help your organization document its efforts to comply with HIPAA\’s training requirements.
Attorney & HIPAA privacy author Cynthia Marcotte Stamer, P.C. will brief teleconference participants on what they need to know and do in response to impending rule changes and new enforcement risks. Participants also will be given the opportunity to ask questions on these and other developments. Participants in the Teleconference will catch up on the latest guidance about:
Participants also will hear practical steps to take to respond to these risks and requirements and will have the opportunity to ask questions. To register or for more information, see CynthiaStamer.com.
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