FYI Regards,
David Frenkel Business Development GEFEG USA Global Leader in Ecommerce Tools www.gefeg.com 425-260-5030 -----Original Message----- From: Notification of Regulation Publication [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stanley Nachimson Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 2:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Updated Information on DHHS Privacy Conferences Below is the latest information on HHS' National HIPAA conferences - note the Chicago and NY links are now available, and we set up a special mail box for ADA related requests. As we asked last time, if you could send this information out to all of your relevant list serves, key organizations, and media contacts, it would be very helpful. If you have a web site and can post this, that would be appreciated as well. The target audience is providers, covered entities, etc. and not our own HHS staff because the seating at these conferences is very limited. Again, your help is much appreciated! 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 PROTECTED] 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: http://www.cvent.com/EventManagement/Summary/Summary.asp?code=&eCode=ikt likbilrdiieqlihiiloviikrlik&type (Please paste the entire link (both lines) into your browser to insure that you reach the site correctly) Or for registration questions, contact Jill Collier at 858-822-4770 or e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: http://www.gynob.emory.edu/rtc/conferences_hipaa.html Or for registration questions, contact 404-523-1996 ext 102, or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY - Saturday, March 1, 2003 Co-sponsored with SUNY Downstate Medical Center To register online, please click on the link below: http://www.downstate.edu/hipaa. Or for registration questions, contact 718-270-2422, or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: http://www.wedi.org/snip/public/articles/details%7E57.htm Or for registration questions, contact Lisa Berretta at 703-391-2743, or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The WEDI SNIP listserv to which you are subscribed is not moderated. The discussions on this listserv therefore represent the views of the individual participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the WEDI Board of Directors nor WEDI SNIP. If you wish to receive an official opinion, post your question to the WEDI SNIP Issues Database at http://snip.wedi.org/tracking/. These listservs should not be used for commercial marketing purposes or discussion of specific vendor products and services. 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