Preparing for New Genetic Data  Management Requirements

Former Chairman of NCVHS Privacy & Security Subcommittee
Helps Dispel Myths About New Law

July 30, 2008
1.5 IAPP CEs

Healthcare organizations have stronger reasons to review and modify their policies governing health information because of the recently enacted Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). Signed into law by President Bush in April, GINA has already generated some confusion and myths about what it will require and who and what it covers.

One thing is certain, however, healthcare organizations, employers and insurers will have to take a new look at their policies and procedures governing patient and employee health records.

Genetic information is not neatly segregated in records and a wide array of other federal and state laws also apply to this data.

To cut through the clutter and misinformation, Health Information Privacy/Security Alert sponsored a 90-minute seminar:

Preparing for New Genetic Data Management Requirements

The seminar helps participants prepare for the upcoming proposals and rules that will be issued under this misunderstood new law.

Participants are briefed on:

• The scope of the new law;

• What data and activities the law covers and what it does not cover;

• The law's effect on research activities;

• The new categories of genetic information that have been created;

• What areas you should start looking at regardless of the regulations that will be proposed and implemented;

• The approaches that states already take under their own laws;

• What role state laws on genetics will play under any set of regulations; and

• The challenges the new law creates for electronic heath records.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN

• Healthcare Compliance Officers

• HIM Professionals

• Healthcare Insurers

• HIPAA Privacy & Security Officers

• Health System Executives

•  Academic Medical Center Executives

• Genetic Counselors & Bioethicists

•  HIPAA Business Associates

•  Third Party Administrators

• Employee Benefits Managers

• HR Professionals

• Workers Comp Professionals

• State and Local Policymakers

• EHR Vendors

• PHR Vendors

• Practice Management Firms

• Researchers

• Healthcare Attorneys & Consultants

THE FACULTY

Mark A. Rothstein served as Chair of the Subcommittee on Privacy and Confidentiality of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, a key HHS advisory committee,  from 1999 to 2008. He holds the Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and is Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Professor Rothstein has concentrated his research on genetics, health privacy, occupational health, public health law, and employment law. He is a former president of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics.

Sonia Suter has been a law professor in the George Washington University Law School since 1999 after holding a Greenwall Fellowship in bioethics and health policy at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities. Prior to attending law school, she earned a masters degree and achieved Ph.D. candidacy in human genetics. She then worked as a genetic counselor for two years. Her scholarship focuses on legal issues in medicine and genetics as well as bioethics. 

CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR CDs

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

ORDERING INFORMATION

• The CD recording with all course materials: $275

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