Health Care 2012 - HIPAA Privacy and Security Audits and Enforcement: What the new program is about, how it works, and what happens if a violation is found

This 3-hr virtual seminar on HIPAA Privacy and Security Audits and Enforcement will cover HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification regulations (and the recent changes to them) and how they will be audited. Documentation requirements, enforcement actions and how to prepare and respond to an audit will also be explored.
Why Should You Attend:
The new HIPAA compliance audit program has been announced and is now under way, bringing HIPAA compliance audits to up to 150 HIPAA Covered Entities by the end of 2012. If your organization is not ready, the HIPAA rules have new, significantly higher fines, including mandatory minimum fines of $10,000 for willful neglect of compliance.
Areas Covered in the Seminar:
- Overview of HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules.
- Changes to HIPAA.
- The HIPAA audit rules and the new program.
- What goes into a HIPAA audit and the questions that are asked?
- Why you might be audited?
- How to prepare for an audit?
- Violation categories and penalties.
- The new Willful Neglect violations.
- The latest enforcement actions.
- Typical risk issues and breach causes.
- Risk Analysis, compliance, and prevention of breaches.
- The policies you need in place now to survive an audit.
- Developing a risk management plan.
- The importance of documentation.