The Office of Civil Rights may have a different version of "treatment," "payment," and "operations" than what you have established.

This 90-minute audio-conference on CD-Rom, "Accounting of Disclosures: Strategies to Efficiently and Effectively Meet HIPAA Requirements" helps you to ensure that you have the proper processes in place to address the accounting of disclosures challenges.

SPEAKERS:

Stephen W. Bernstein, partner, Health Law Department of McDermott, Will & Emery’s Boston office and co-chair of the firm's HIPAA Practice Group and the Firm's Health Ventures Group

Rebecca Buegel, RHIA, Privacy Officer/Director of Health Information Management at Casa Grande Regional Medical Center

Pat Van Dyke, Director of Privacy, Security and HIPAA at ODS Health Plans

During "Accounting of Disclosures: Strategies to Efficiently and Effectively Meet HIPAA Requirements," you’ll learn:

• what the Office of Civil Rights expects from healthcare organizations
• how to manage the accounting of disclosure process
• Policies and procedures for accounting of disclosures
• What is actually "happening in the trenches"
• addressing mandatory reporting requirements
• Accounting of disclosure "do's" & "don'ts"
• future issues that you will need to address

This program was designed especially for privacy officers, HIPAA project managers, compliance officers, CEOs, physician leaders nursing managers, internal auditors and attorneys and consultants.

The CD-Rom also contains the conference materials and handouts.

Here's what some of our participants said about the live program:

"Great session!," said Connie R. Williams, compliance and privacy officer at Botsford Health Care Continuum

"It's valuable information," said Vivian Dupuy, HIPAA Privacy Coordinator, Columbia University

"If you want to know about HIPAA disclosures, great teleconference," said Valley Hospital

"The conference provided valuable insight and information," said Shannon Brillhart, Director, Medical Records, Thomas Memorial Hospital