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 year  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 focused on the realities faced by a covered entity's:

Practical Approaches to BA Contracts

The seminar features a discussion by a covered entity of its experience in dealing with the Business Associate requirements and the different issues and strategies it is using to manage this complex task.

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 perspective;

• An explanation of the many legal issues that must be addressed;  and
  much more

WHO SHOULD LISTEN

• Senior Healthcare Executives
• Privacy and Security Officers
• HIPAA Business Associates
• Hospital Compliance Executives
• HIM Professionals
• Physicians
• Healthcare Payers

• 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

Dennis Melamed is  editor and publisher of Health Information Privacy/Security Alert, has 30 years of experience writing about business and regulatory affairs in Washington, DC. Dennis is an adjunct professor at the Drexel College of Medicine and the chief editor and lead author of the three-volume HIPAA Handbook reference set. He is a frequent lecturer and columnist on health information confidentiality and security issues.

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

• All seminar participants will receive a certificate of participation
• 1.5 IAPP Credits

ORDERING THE CD w/COURSE MATERIALS

• The CD with course materials make an excellent training and education tool: $289.

Download the form at www.melamedia.com/4.29.10.Order.Form.pdf
and fax it to 703.619.4912