<p>Join us for our 2022 AAHIMA 3rd Quarterly Meeting!</p>

<p>Healthcare organizations are obviously under external requirements and scrutiny regarding the security of PHI, but those requirements only apply to PHI and are about protecting the respective individuals and not your organization.</p>

<p>The sudden outbreak of Covid-19 has created many challenges for healthcare settings.</p>

<p>Join us for the AzHIMA 2021 Fall Meeting! </p>

We've been too reactive for far too long. We need to rethink how we're managing and protecting our networks by changing how we approach our big cybersecurity problem. My message to you—to beat a hacker you've got to start thinking like one. By looking at your systems through the eyes of a hacker, you will be better equipped at protecting your facility from growing cyberattacks and data breaches. In this talk we will walk through facilities like yours through the lens of hacker trying to get in.

Includes: 1) Employee Training and Development and Retention 2) The Intersection of HIPAA Privacy and Information Blocking 3) Telework & Cybersecurity – Finding Security in a New World 4) Building our Health Information Community: 2021 AHIMA Report to the CSAs

By the conclusion of this program, you'll know how to leverage digital solutions to: Transition from arduously processing paper to deftly managing digital content, Employ automated capture to ensure data quality and slash processing times, Leverage enterprise search to pinpoint critical records in record time, Drive enterprise-wide efficiency using electronic forms to reduce manual data entry and automated deliveries to get information to the right people, at the right time.

Standardized Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) will make the use of third-party applications more prevalent and easier to use in healthcare. This in turn will allow patients to be more in charge of their health information and determine who to share their information with. This session will discuss what ROI professionals need to know about APIs and the potential ROI changes to consider.

This session will discuss recent coding denial trends, targeted clinical validation diagnoses, and the importance of developing a strong working relationship between HIM coders and CDI professionals. We will discuss coder roles and responsibilities specifically related to Clinical Validation and focusing on denial prevention. During the presentation we will provide some helpful tips for achieving clinical validation success and preventing many denials. While denial prevention is the ultimate goal, what do you do once you receive a denial? We will discuss ways to identify if an appeal is indicated, case outlines, and writing successful appeal letters.

Sessions include 1) COVID: A Corrections Crisis; 2) Behind the Scenes of HIM Education; 3) Navigating the Implementation of the Information Blocking Rule (Cures Act); 4) The Low Down on Patient’s Right of Access; and 5) Risk Coding

Sessions Include: 1) A View from the Statehouse: Recent and Upcoming Legislation 2) Information Blocking 3) Simulation in Healthcare Education 4) CIHIMA Business Meeting - AHIMA Access presentation 5) The Transition of Scanning in HIM 6) Illinois Telehealth Initiative

<p>On Demand Webinar</p>

<p>As Release of Information becomes more complex with new regulations and guidelines, questions surrounding appropriate policies, procedures and processes increase. Attend this session to hear the latest information on Release of Information and ask an industry expert your toughest questions.</p>

<p>Response to Ransomware Attacks has become more mainstream, appearing in the news almost daily. Healthcare organizations are being targeted. Mike Meline and Paul Merrywell will help you to build a strategy that severely limits your organization from having such an event that causes your organization to be another news story.</p>

<p>Learn about the OCR and its responsibilities</p>

Join us for our August 2021 Virtual Meeting! <ol> <li>Welcome and Introduction from Stacy Hartstine, RHIT, CCS, HAHIMA President Elect</li> <li>Compliance with PACT Rule-Discharge Status & Ongoing Scrutiny</li> <li>Exhibitors Update and Introduction</li> <li>HAHIMA District IX Update</li> <li>Information Blocking</li> <li>HIM Data Integrity</li> <li>Managing Insider Threats: Collaborating with Business Associates to Reduce Risk During COVID-10 and After</li> </ol>

Join us for our March 2022 Virtual Meeting! A great variety of speakers are lined up and ready to provide us with outstanding education & tips.

<p>Join us for our Winter Virtual Quarterly Meeting! Topics include:  1) Navigating in the New World with Telemedicine after Covid-19, 2) ICD-10-PCS Root Operations Breaking Down Op Notes, and 3) HIPAATrek</p>

This timely presentation delivers an update and overview of the most important healthcare privacy and security rules, guidance and regulatory changes, including but not limited to, HIPAA’s NPRM (Notice of Proposed Rule Making), 42 CFR Part 2 and HIPAA synchronization and the 21st Century Cures Act; ONC (Office of the National Coordinator of Healthcare IT) and CMS Interoperability and Information Blocking rules which healthcare IT developers, providers and payers are all struggling to understand.

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Join us for this pre-recorded webinar on Common Security Risks and Safeguards. Julie Bennett, RHIA, CHPC, CHPS and Allison Slocum, JD, MHA, MGH, CHC will guide you through how information breaches can occur and how you can help prevent them.</p> <!-- /wp:list -->