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HIPAA Breach Notification: How to Prevent, Prepare for, and Report Breaches of Healthcare Information Privacy and Security
Date & Time: Wednesday, December 7, 2011
10:00 AM PST | 01:00 PM EST
Duration: 90 Minutes
Instructor: Jim Sheldon-Dean
Location: Online
Price : $195.00
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The new HIPAA Breach Notification Rule required by the HITECH Act within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 went into effect September 23, 2009, requiring all HIPAA covered entities and business associates to follow a number of steps to be in compliance. If there is a breach of protected health information that risks causing financial, reputational, or other harm to an individual, the breach must be reported to the individual, and all such breaches must be reported to the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services at least annually.
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There are additional steps to take if the breach affects more than 500 individuals, including media notices and immediate notification of HHS. For every potential breach of PHI, the entity will have to determine if the information breached presents a reasonable risk of harm to the individuals, and take action to notify them if there is a risk of harm. Entities should also be aware that the harm standard may be modified upon release of a final rule in
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2011, and entities should be ready to adjust to changes in the rules. Entities must adopt incident handling and breach notification policies and procedures to ensure accurate reporting and documentation of breaches, and must take steps to protect information from breaches by using encryption and proper disposal methods meeting Federal standards.
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Entities must follow the standards and specifications of the HIPAA Security Rule to protect information from breaches and must negotiate new Business Associate Agreements to include liability for breach notification and requirements for timely
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Learn about the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule Find out what is a breach What to do to prevent a Breach What to do to prepare for a Breach What to do when a Breach occurs
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What you have to report, to whom ,and when How to avoid Breach Notification What are the most common types of breaches you can avoid
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What are the new threats to the security of health information
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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 health care firms and businesses throughout the Northeast and nationally. Sheldon-Dean’s firm provides a variety of advisory, training, assessment, policy development, project management and mitigation services for a number 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. He serves on the HIMSS Information Systems Security Workgroup, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange Privacy and Security Workgroup, and co-chairs the WEDI HIPAA Updates sub-workgroup. ...more
Suggest a Topic More Webinars reporting to the entity. On top of all this, the landscape of information security threats Your Necessity is our Priority and breaches is changing dramatically, forcing new kinds of security efforts and consistent application of old safeguards to protect patient information. New kinds of devices such as smart phones and tablet computers bring new challenges, new risks, and new threats. What used to be "good enough" is no longer sufficient to properly protect PHI.
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Jim Sheldon-Dean Director of Compliance Services, Lewis Creek Systems, LLC
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