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HIPAA 2009: Get Ready For Sweeping New Changes Webinar Recording
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As part of the largest economic stimulus bill in history, signed into law on February 17th, 2009 as The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Congress enacted over 20 pages of sweeping new changes to HIPAA. These changes impose significant, new obligations on all health care providers - including ambulance services - with regard to the privacy and security of patient information as well as new requirements on business associates of HIPAA covered entities. These new requirements are the first major changes to HIPAA in over four years.
Some of these important HIPAA amendments take effect in as early as six months. The law also includes a broad grant of authority for new HIPAA compliance auditing and enforcement activities; clearly the federal government is prepared to move HIPAA from an "educational" to an an aggressive "enforcement" stance, with stiff new penalties against entities that fail to comply. Ambulance services must gear up at once to come into compliance with these sweeping and complex new changes.
In addition, the new HIPAA provisions also make many privacy and security rules directly applicable to business associates, such as billing companies, consulting firms and others who work with ambulance services and other covered entities. Previously, these types of service organizations were only required to enter into business associate agreements with their clients; now, they will be responsible to comply with many provisions of HIPAA as if they were covered entities themselves. Any entity who provides billing, consulting or other business services to ambulance organizations also needs to immediately begin planning for these important new changes.
Among other changes, the new HIPAA law requires mandatory disclosures in the event of a breach of a patient's information, has stringent new requirements for electronic medical records, and makes broad changes in the requirement to track and account for uses and disclosures of all protected health information.
These massive new HIPAA changes are confusing and can be overwhelming from a compliance perspective. Fortunately, once again, the attorneys and consultants of Page, Wolfberg & Wirth have been closely monitoring these latest developments and are on top of these changes to assist the ambulance industry and those who serve it better understand and comply with these major HIPAA amendments. PWW is widely acknowledged as the industry's leading authority on HIPAA compliance for the ambulance industry, authoring The Ambulance Service Guide to HIPAA Compliance and producing The Ambulance Service HIPAA Privacy and Security Training Video, the two HIPAA compliance resources most relied upon by ambulance organizations nationwide.
PWW recently held a 2-hour "Special Alert" National EMS Law Webinar, "HIPAA 2009 - Get Ready for Sweeping New Changes." PWW attorneys reviewed all of the new HIPAA changes as well as the various compliance deadlines, and explained the compliance steps you need to take to prepare for the implementation of these new rules. In addition, you will receive the detailed handout materials and helpful, "down to earth" explanations you have come to rely on from PWW. Finally, we addressed last minute issues you need to know to ensure compliance with the new identity theft protections -- The Red Flag Rules --- as that compliance deadline is nearly upon us.
WHAT: HIPAA 2009: Get Ready for Sweeping New Changes Webinar Recording
A Special Alert National EMS Law Webinar From PWW
Note: The webinar recording is available via download after purchase.
The recording is in a Windows Media Player format.
COST: $218.95
ORDER: Online - Click on "BUY" above.
Phone: Call 877-EMS-LAW1 (877-367-5291)
Fax / Mail: Download this ORDER FORM.
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HIPAA 2009: Get Ready for Sweeping New Changes Webinar Recording
$218.95
Save more when you buy all of our HIPAA products together. The HIPAA Bundle includes: (1) The Ambulance Service HIPAA Privacy and Security Training Video; (2) The Ambulance Service Guide to HIPAA Compliance; and (3) a FREE copy of our 90-minute HIPAA audio conference presentation. Plus free shipping on all HIPAA Bundle orders! It's never too late to come into compliance with the HIPAA Privacy and Security regulations.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (H.R. 1), which includes significant changes for HIPAA covered entities and other organizations who perform services on behalf of covered entities and business associates was signed into law on February 17, 2009. A portion of the Recovery Act calls for computerizing all health records by the year 2014 and privacy advocates have lobbied for more stringent privacy and security measures to protect this data. This means that new regulatory requirements are on the horizon. |
