How to Prepare HIPAA Compliant Policies And Procedures
Jim Wener has over 40 years of experience in assisting health care organizations - both providers and payers - in identifying their automation requirements and helping these organizations select and successfully implement the automation most applicable for their needs. Since 1996 he has been an active lecturer, trainer, HIPAA assessment consultant helping a variety of health care providers (hospitals, payers, clinics and individual physician practitioners) become HIPAA compliant and an expert witness regarding HIPAA Breach litigation. He developed the IBM HIPAA assessment and training products........
Overview
The HIPAA Privacy and Security regulations particularly specify that the covered entity and business associates must implement policies and procedures that promote the compliance with the HIPAA regulations. HIPAA Policies and Procedures are the basis for a health care organization's HIPAA compliance program. The policies and procedures describe how the organization complies with HIPAA. This is used as a basis for performing your HIPAA Risk Assessment and performing your training for your staff.
Why should you attend this webinar?
There are three situations where having a set of HIPAA policies and procedures are needed:
- First, the policies and procedures become a good reference to ensure that all areas are addressed for becoming HIPAA compliant.
- Second, the HIPAA regulations REQUIRE covered entities and business associates to have a set of policies and procedures directing the workforce to perform their tasks in a controlled environment. Having a set of policies and procedures is positive evidence of the healthcare organization exercising due diligence.
- Third, if there is a breach, the healthcare organization needs to demonstrate that it has proactively implemented a comprehensive.
Areas Covered in the Session:
- What is a comprehensive set of HIPAA policy and procedures and why you need them
- What to look for in a set of HIPAA policy and procedures templates on the internet
- How to customize the set of HIPAA policies and procedures for the healthcare organization
- How to train the healthcare organization workforce in using the HIPAA policies and procedures
- How to use the HIPAA policies and procedures to perform a HIPAA assessment.
Who can Benefit:
Anyone involved in providing health care services, either directly or indirectly. This includes health care organization ownership and senior management, office management, business associates, physicians, ancillary services organizations (pharmacies, labs, radiology). Healthcare IT should also attend to understand their role in helping the healthcare organization in becoming HIPAA compliant.
Webinar Id: HIPJW0630
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