Cybersecurity Update

Individual Right of Access

Information Blocking: Impact to ROI & Patient Access

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.

The sudden outbreak of Covid-19 has created many challenges for healthcare settings.

This presentation will engage attendees in an essential conversation regarding the recent court ruling on the misuse of patient-directed record requests.

This presentation will consist of a non-legalese discussion of legal requests and eDiscovery and provide solutions for handling such requests.

Debate no more, sharing electronic patient records upon a valid request is now the law. The industry has six short months (from May 2020) to meet the first compliance milestone.

This webinar will provide practical strategies to enable health information (HI) teams to be successful in compliantly implementing all components of the 21st Century Cures Act.

Complex questions often arise regarding consent to treatment and confidentiality of mental health information for minors, especially when minors enter the dependency system.

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

On Demand Webinar

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.

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.

Overview: This timely presentation delivers an update of the most important healthcare privacy and security rule / guidance regulatory changes, including but not limited to,…

Medical devices are part of the Internet of Things (IoT). They are a threat to patient privacy and, now, patient safety. The department of Health and Human Services and the Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity Task Force have agreed medical devices are a primary threat vector for malicious cybersecurity attackers and unintended malware incidents like Notpetya & Wannacry. This session will explain which devices are the most vulnerable and why.

Congress has proposed 10 best cybersecurity practices, developed by HHS, that can dramatically reduce the OCR’s financial and operational impact.

We will reveal the most impactful and challenging attributes of privacy risk-based program and how the NIST Privacy Framework addresses them.  Learn how to incorporate privacy risk management standards, guidelines, and best practices, into your healthcare organizations policies and practices.

Learn about the OCR and its responsibilities

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