Practical Approaches to BA Contracts

Audio Seminar
Thursday, April 29, 2010
1 pm – 2:30 pm EASTERN
Registration & CD
$359.00
 
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By now, most healthcare organizations are well aware of the fact that contracts with HIPAA business associates must change as a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Legal experts have spent substantial time and energy in the last six months speculating and designing responses for what is expected to be a prolonged process.

In the meantime, some covered entities have plunged into meeting the mandates of ARRA and the HITECH Act. That experience more than any theoretical discussion can be of immense value to healthcare organizations.

With that in mind, Melamedia, LLC, publishers of Health Information Privacy/Security Alert is sponsoring a 90-minute audio seminar:

Practical Approaches to BA Contracts

The April 29 seminar features

  • Jeannette Frey, Privacy Officer for Fallon Community Health Plan, who will share her experience and expertise in developing her organization’s system for updating Business Associate contracts; and

  • Dr. Patricia Wagner, JD, a member of the national law firm, Epstein, Becker & Green. She has extensive experience in advising healthcare organizations on ways to handle the new statutory and contract requirements on covered entities and business associates.

Participants will be briefed on:

  • How to prepare for the process of updating and modifying BA agreements;

  • Operational challenges and opportunities in managing relationships between covered entities and BAs;

  • What to include in the business associate contract from a business and legal perspectives; and
    much more

WHO SHOULD LISTEN

  • Senior Healthcare Executives
  • Privacy and Security Officers
  • HIPAA Business Associates
  • Hospital Compliance Executives
  • HIM Professionals
  • Physicians
  • Healthcare Payers
  • Healthcare Marketing Professionals
  • Business Insurers
  • EHR Professionals
  • PHR Vendors
  • State and Federal Government Policymakers
  • Consumer Affairs Professionals
  • Personal Data Collection Companies
  • Healthcare Attorneys
  • Healthcare Consultants

THE FACULTY

Jeannette Frey is Privacy Officer at Fallon Community Health Plan where she is responsible for all of the health plan's privacy compliance activities. Prior to joining Fallon Community Health Plan, she was a Staff Attorney at Tufts Health Plan where she provided legal advice related to privacy compliance and provider peer review, and she reviewed and negotiated vendor contracts including business associate agreements. Previous to her role as Staff Attorney, Ms. Frey was Tufts Health Plan's Privacy Officer and was responsible for privacy compliance throughout the company. Her professional experience also includes positions at the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office and Massachusetts General Hospital where she coordinated research projects in the Psychiatry Department.


Dr. Patricia Wagner, is an attorney with Epstein Becker & Green’s Health Care and Life Science practice, where her practice focuses on HIPAA and a variety of other federal and state regulatory issues. Ms. Wagner also received her doctorate in microbiology and has worked for a number of research institutions, including the CDC

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

  • All seminar participants will receive a certificate of participation
  • Seminar qualifies for up to 1.5 IAPP Credits

OTHER ORDERING INFORMATION

  • Each registration provides 1 call-in line for an organization, allowing your colleagues and staff to sit in on the seminars
    for one low cost

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  • The CD recording with all course materials are excellent educational and briefing resources: $289

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TRACK HIPAA ENFORCEMENT
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