"HIPAA permeates every piece of information flow in the organization - from the janitors up to senior management - but with organization and focus, inch-by-inch, you'll get it done," one of the expert speakers told participants during "HIPAA Progress 2002: Your Work Plan Priorities For Compliance."
How information goes in, how it is used and how it goes out should be the guiding principles for task force members, said Stephen Bernstein, partner with Boston-based McDermott, Will & Emery.
Penetrating below the HIPAA basics to let healthcare organizations (HCOs) know what they should be doing now, as opposed to what they should have been doing months ago, was the goal of a Health Resources Publishing audio conference, "HIPAA Progress 2002: Your Work Plan Priorities For Compliance."
"Each member of a task force [is] usually [a] representative from [a] department that plug[s] in," Bernstein said. "They meet maybe once a month - though they should be meeting every couple of weeks - and most [members] probably know HIPAA basics, which is step one, but only step one."
The key to successfully implementing HIPAA mandates, Bernstein said, is fine-tuning.
He explained that HCOs can implement HIPAA forms and policies but it's going to be important to test them with members of your own management team and with patients well before the compliance date.
"HIPAA Progress 2002: Your Work Plan Priorities For Compliance." This highly rated Audio Conference on CD-ROM can help your staff focus quickly on what must be done now.
The program comes complete with handout material in a PDF slide format. Turn on the audio, open the slides and start taking notes for planning.
You can use the program for management awareness training and for planning implementation procedures.
The 90-minute program includes the conference materials including definitions, slides, charts, checklists, and frequently asked questions.
HIPAA isn't going away. Organizations are attempting to implement the various aspects of the law.
The number 1 priority for healthcare providers right now is upgrading security on their IT systems to meet HIPAA requirements, according to the HIPAA Bulletin for Management.
Discover what our panel of HIPAA experts is finding and get their latest thinking.
"HIPAA Progress 2002: Your Work Plan Priorities for Compliance" on CD-ROM makes it easy for you to gather your key executive team to strengthen HIPAA awareness for planning, and to focus on what your organizations should be doing now.
The goal of this special presentation is to provide real-world, practical solutions and answers to professionals attempting to cope with implementing and complying with the law's provisions.
Use this program as an inexpensive way to orient management staff and department heads, and to train supervisors.
PANELISTS:
- Stephen Bernstein, an attorney in the HIPAA Practice Group in the Boston office of McDermott, Will & Emery
- Lee Barrett, executive director of the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission, and Director of Client Services with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
PROGRAM AGENDA:
- What your organization should be doing about HIPAA right now
- How to adopt formats for transactions involving information exchanges to carry out financial or administrative activities
- Analyzing business entity relationships
- Identifying the main business processes under each entity relationship
- How to prepare for the privacy rule
- How to write an airtight protected health information (PHI) disclosure form
- Transaction and code set requirement -- how can a covered entity determine whether or not it will qualify for the extension
- How to avoid legal hassles
- How to identify and fill key gaps
- How to finalize regulations analysis and corporate standards under HIPAA
- Policy elections for your organization, how to begin initial security analysis
- Developing your corporate security strategy
- Including appropriate HIPAA provisions in vendor negotiations for information systems and telecommunications systems
Hospitals, health plans, physician practices and clearinghouse have much at stake. Organize your key staff to listen to this informative educational program.
WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS CD-ROM:
CEOs, Operations Executives, Patient Care Administrators, HIPAA Task Force Members, Team Leaders, Planners, Business Development, Product Managers, Knowledge Managers and Strategic and Implementer Consultants, Hospitals, Health Insurers, Managed Care Organizations, Laboratories, Pharmaceutical Companies, Clearinghouses, Physician Practice Management Executives, Medical Device Manufacturers, Healthcare Technology Companies.
