Tuesday, May 10, 2011

HIPAA Enforcement and Compliance Audits: What the auditors want and how to be ready before they call - Webinar By GlobalCompliancePanel




Overview: In this sitting we will discuss the HIPAA examine and enforcement processes and how they lay upon to covered entities and business associates.

We direct explain the enforcement regulations and their latter changes that increase fines and be the occasion of new penalty levels, including new penalties on the side of willful neglect of compliance that set in operation at $10,000. We will ventilate what information and documentation needs to have existence prepared in advance so that you can be ready for an audit independently of notice. Sample information request forms and questions asked at prior audits will be presented.

The session will also cover how to discern if you may become the subject of an audit or enforcement action, and which you can do to help restraint your exposure.  We will discuss how most enforcement actions come about and that which can be done to prevent incidents that excel to enforcement.

The HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification regulations (and the late changes to them) and how they direct be audited will be explained.  Documentation requirements on account of compliance will be explored and a framework of security policies necessary for yieldingness will be presented. Meeting any assortment of information security requirements always involves conducting a thorough risk analysis to make sure you asylum't overlooked any weaknesses.  We'll deliberate what's involved and how it is the cornerstone of your obedience efforts.

The results of prior HHS audits (and their penalties) give by ~ be discussed, including recent actions involving multi-the masses dollar fines and settlements. A chart for attaining compliance will be presented. The steps to come to prepare for an audit and accord to an audit request will have ~ing outlined.

Areas Covered in the Session:

Fines and penalties on account of violations of the HIPAA regulations gain been significantly increased and now embody mandatory fines for willful negligence that commence at $10,000 minimum.

HIPAA Audits regard been few and far between in the gone, but that's now changing - the HHS decree be auditing HIPAA covered entities and walk of life associates even if there have been none complaints or problems reported.

Find exhausted what HHS OCR is likely to ask you if you are selected in quest of an audit, and what you'll bear to have prepared already when they grant.

Find out what the rules are that you extremity to comply with and what policies you have power to adopt that can help you approach into compliance.

Learn how the HIPAA rules take changed and how you may destitution to change how you work to lay away up with them.

Learn how having a capital compliance process can help you stay obedient more easily.

Find out what you'll distress to have documented to survive an audit and avoid fines.

Who Will Benefit:

Compliance counsellor

CEO

CFO

Privacy Officer

Security Officer

Information Systems Manager

HIPAA Officer

Chief Information Officer

Health Information Manager

Healthcare Counsel/advocate

Office Manager

Contracts Manager

Price List:
Live : $245.00
Corporate live : $995.00
Recorded : $295.00

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