The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announces the National Conference on the HIPAA Privacy Rule to be held at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Chicago on Sunday, March 2, 2003. This unique conference is one in a series of national conferences 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.
This event is sponsored in partnership with the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) and Finch University of Health Sciences * The Chicago Medical School. WEDI will be handling conference registration. You may register now via fax or mail, using the attached registration form. Or, you can use our online registration system beginning January 31, 2003, by visiting http://www.wedi.org and clicking on "Industry Events."
there are four such "unique conferences," and the march one is the last...see details below if you want to attend sooner.
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 preemption rules create 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 and
what constitutes a valid authorization
* 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., please contact
[EMAIL PROTECTED] at least 10 - 15 days before the conference.
San Diego, California - February 5, 2003
Co-sponsored with the University of California
To register online, please click on the link below:
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Or for registration questions, contact Jill Collier at 858-822-4770 or
e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Atlanta, Georgia - 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 email
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
New York, NY - March 1, 2003
(registration and location details TBA)
Chicago, Illinois - March 2, 2003
(see becker message)
Theresa Defino
Editor
Practical Guidance on HIPAA and E-Health
For the Physician Practice
301-738-3721
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