HIPAA Breaches: Issues Today And Future Trends
PRE-RECORDED AUDIO CONFERENCE
Date: Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Time: Request for replay on any day
Length: 60 Minutes
Speaker:Jim Sheldon-Dean
Broadcast From :Monday, July 23, 2012
Broadcast End :Monday, July 23, 2012
Learn How Can You Best Handle HIPAA Breaches
As per HIPAA Breach Notification Rule all HIPAA covered entities and business associates should follow countless steps to be compliant in case there is a breach of the privacy and security of protected health information. The breach of PHI causing financial, reputational, or other harm to an individual must be reported to the individual and also to Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services at least annually. In case the breach affects more than 500 individuals, additional steps could be taken including media notices as well as immediate notification of HHS.
Register now for this 60-minutes information packed event where our expert speaker, Jim Sheldon-Dean, will give you a rundown on:
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Breach Notification Rule: Background and what it calls for in the regulations,
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Where to find the information and forms for filing breach notifications with HHS
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Maintaining effective breach notification policy
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Preventing breaches as much as reasonably possible
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Effective steps to take in case of a security incident or breach
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Risks of reporting and not reporting an incident
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Learn how to best document your incidents and breaches to endure enforcement audits
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Breaches: most common reasons and prevention
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Learn how to adopt and train on policies and carry out drills in breach response
Highlights of the session:
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HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates require knowing where and what information they have for knowing how serious a breach may be and whom to notify if there is a good chance of harm. With this audio conference, know what you have and how to decide in case you need to notify.
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Entities can sidestep notification if information has been encrypted as per Federal standards. Our expert speaker will enlighten you on what information needs to be encrypted the most and how entities are doing it.
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Learn how to create the right breach notification policy for your organization and how to follow through when an incident takes place.
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Know the various information security methods you can use to avoid frequent breaches
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Identify what isn’t a breach and under what situations you don’t have to consider breach notification.
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Discover how to report the smaller breaches (less than 500 individuals), as needed, within 60 days of the end of each year.
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Learn why you want to avoid a breach involving more than 500 individuals – media notices, Web site notices, and immediate notification of HHS, including posting on the HHS breach notification “wall of shame” on the Web.
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Know what are the most frequent kinds of HIPAA breaches and their prevention
Jim Sheldon-Dean is the founder and director of compliance services at Lewis Creek Systems, LLC, a Vermont-based consulting firm founded in 1982, providing information privacy and security regulatory compliance services to a variety of health care providers, businesses, universities, small and large hospitals, urban and rural mental health and social service agencies, health insurance plans, and health care business associates.
Sheldon-Dean serves on the HIMSS Information Systems Security Workgroup, has co-chaired the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange Privacy and Security Workgroup, serves on the WEDI Breach Notification sub-workgroup, and is a recipient of the WEDI 2011 Award of Merit. He is a frequent speaker regarding HIPAA and information privacy and security compliance issues at seminars and conferences, including speaking engagements at numerous regional and national healthcare association conferences and conventions.
Sheldon-Dean has more than 30 years of experience in policy analysis and implementation, business process analysis, information systems and software development. His experience includes leading the development of health care related Web sites; award-winning, best-selling commercial utility software; and mission-critical, fault-tolerant communications satellite control systems. In addition, he has eight years of experience doing hands-on medical work as a Vermont certified volunteer emergency medical technician. Sheldon-Dean received his B.S. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Vermont and his master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
