Webinar on How to do a HIPAA Risk Analysis

Overview: This lesson is designed to enable your Organization to perform a complete Risk Analysis of all PHI it creates, receives, maintains or transmits in any format. You will understand and identify threats, vulnerabilities and risks to your organization's PHI wherever it is located.

This program will:

• Explain HIPAA Risk Analysisclearly and simply for staff of Covered Entities and Business Associates tasked with doing a HIPAA Risk Analysis who are not members of "the computer security community"
• Clarify and follow NIST methods without confusing jargon and complexity
• Cover Risk Analysis of all PHI - not just electronic PHI
• Demonstrate an interactive, intuitive method for completing theRisk Analysis and creating a Risk Management Program to help you jump start compliance

Why should you attend: Covered entities and Business Associates are under intense pressure to do a HIPAA Risk Analysisof all PHI they maintain - and have been left on their own to do it.

• HIPAA Rules do not explain how to do a Risk Analysis
• HHS provides 9 pages of guidance, published in 2010 that "...is based on recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)" However, the lengthy, complex NIST recommendations cited by HHS are highly technical and specifically geared to "the computer security community"
• A "Security Risk Assessment Tool", designed only for small medical practices, is available at HealthIT.gov but does not cover the HIPAA Privacy Rule and carries the express warning, "Use of this tool is neither required by nor guarantees compliance with federal, state or local laws"

Areas Covered in the Session:

• HIPAA Risk Analysis Importance Explained
• HIPAA Risk Analysis Explained In A Clear Concise Step-by-Step Process
• The Elements OF A Complete HIPAA Risk Analysis - All PHI
• Creating Your HIPAA Risk Management Program Directly From Your HIPAA Risk Analysis

Who Will Benefit:

• HIPAA Compliance Officials
• Marketing - Patient Relations Manager
• Health Care Practice Manager
• Risk Manager - Compliance Manager
• Information Systems Manager
• Legal Counsel

Speaker :

Paul R. Hales J.D, is an attorney at law in St. Louis, Missouri whose practice has included specialization in the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules from the dates they became effective. He provides assistance and counseling on the new, more demanding compliance requirements of the HITECH modifications to HIPAA. Mr. Hales is licensed to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, Federal Appellate and District Courts, the State Courts of Missouri and is a graduate of Columbia University Law School.

Price : $139.00

Contact Info:

MentorHealth
Phone No: 1-800-385-1607
FaX: 302-288-6884
support@mentorhealth.com
Event Link: http://bit.ly/1Ncf1bK
http://www.mentorhealth.com/