USA Reglation - HIPAA meetings

Ted Trower

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USA Reglation - HIPAA meetings

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Ted Trower

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2/14/2003

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The following was sent out on the region B listserv. I want to be sure
that anyone interested knows about the event.

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>Below is the latest information on HHS' National HIPAA conferences ? note
>the Chicago and NY links are now available.
>
>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be convening
>four National Conferences on the HIPAA Privacy Rule. These one-day
>conferences will be held in San Diego, Atlanta, New York, and Chicago. The
>conferences are designed to provide an unprecedented opportunity to hear
>from and interact with officials who developed the Health Insurance
>Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule and will be
>responsible for interpreting and enforcing the rule. The HHS Office for
>Civil Rights (OCR) will provide an expert faculty who will answer questions
>from attendees during question and answer sessions following their
>presentations.
>
>What you will learn:
>
>* The principles underlying the Privacy Rule.
>* How the Privacy Rule creates a national floor of privacy protections
>* Who is a covered health care provider
>* The implications of being an affiliated covered entity, a hybrid, or in
>an organized health care arrangement
>* Business associate issues
>* What type of information is protected under the HIPAA Privacy Rule and
>what is meant by the terms use, disclosure, minimum necessary, and
>incidental disclosures
>* The Notice of Privacy Practices requirement
>* When it is necessary to obtain an authorization to use or disclose PHI
>* The right of patient to access, amend, and obtain an accounting of
>disclosures of patient health information
>* When to use an authorization for research and when research may be
>conducted without an authorization
>* How research authorizations pre-dating the compliance date are treated
>* Appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards
>* The requirements to train the workforce on covered entity policies and
>procedures
>* The OCR compliant investigation and compliance review authority
>
>REGISTRATION:
>
>Information on registration, including registration fees, for the
>individual conferences can be found below. Please be advised that seating
>is limited and early registration is advisable. If you need reasonable
>accommodations because of a disability, such as conference materials in
>alternative formats, sign language interpreters, etc., send a message to
> <Email Address Redacted> at least 10 - 15 days before the conference.
>
>San Diego, California - Wednesday, February 5, 2003,
>Co-sponsored with the University of California
>
>To register online, please click on the link below or for registration
>questions, contact Jill Collier at 858-822-4770 or e-mail at
> <Email Address Redacted> :
> <URL Redacted>
>=&eCode=iktlikbilrdiieqlihiiloviikrlik&type
>
>(Please paste the entire link (both lines) into your browser to insure that
>you reach the site correctly)
>
>Atlanta, Georgia - Tuesday, February 18, 2003
>Co-sponsored with Emory Healthcare at Emory University and The Morehouse
>School of Medicine
>
>To register online, please click on the link below or for registration
>questions, contact 404-523-1996 ext 102, or e-mail <Email Address Redacted> :
> <URL Redacted>
>
>
>Brooklyn, NY - Saturday, March 1, 2003
>Co-sponsored with SUNY Downstate Medical Center
>
>To register online, please click on the link below or for registration
>questions, contact 718-270-2422, or e-mail <Email Address Redacted> :
> <URL Redacted>.
>
>
>Chicago, Illinois - Sunday, March 2, 2003
>Co-sponsored with WEDI and Finch University of Health Sciences-The Chicago
>Medical School
>
>To register online, please click on the link below or for registration
>questions, contact Lisa Berretta at 703-391-2743, or e-mail
> <Email Address Redacted> :
> http://www.wedi.org/snip/public/articles/details%7E57.htm


Ted A. Trower C.P.O.
A-S-C Orthotics & Prosthetics
Jackson, Michigan, USA

www.amputee.com

                          

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Ted Trower, “USA Reglation - HIPAA meetings,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 2, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/220730.