Melamedia's 4th Annual Review of Medical Privacy & Security Enforcement
(Dec. 13, 2007)

Seminar examines outlook for stricter enforcement, implications for secondary uses of data, EHRs

National and regional efforts to increase the use of electronic health records are intensifying concerns over patient confidentiality and conflicting legal and regulatory requirements. Experts agree that HIPAA is not now capable of addressing all the issues raised by electronic health records (EHRs).

There are also inklings that medical privacy and data security enforcement will be escalating. Even now, enforcement is moving well beyond the statutory limits of HIPAA to address secondary uses of protected health information.

The risks have become so great that publicly traded companies are increasingly listing HIPAA and medical privacy rules as significant potential risks in their SEC filings.

To help healthcare understand this evolving enforcement environment and learn where the risks are arising, Melamedia's Health Information Privacy/Security Alert is sponsoring

The 4rd Annual Year-End Review of Medical Privacy and Security Enforcement

Participants will be briefed on:

  • The OCR and CMS enforcement activities;
  • The FTC's use of the Fair Credit Reporting Act to extend medical privacy laws;
  • Implications of OIG's HIPAA security audit of Piedmont Health;
  • Emerging legal issues facing EHRs and EMRs;
  • Key state and federal court decisions in 2007 on medical privacy and data security;
  • The privacy and data security enforcement outlook for 2008;
    and
    much more

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

  • Privacy and Security Officers
  • Hospital Administrators and Board Members
  • HIM Professionals
  • Business Associates
  • EHR & EMR professionals
  • Healthcare Compliance Managers
  • Marketers
  • Personal Data Collection Companies
  • Researchers
  • State and Federal Government Policymakers
  • Benefits Managers
  • Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
  • Healthcare Attorneys
  • Healthcare Consultants

THE FACULTY

John Christiansen, Co-Chair of the American Bar Association's Committee on Healthcare Privacy, Security and Information Technology; and a member of the technical expert advisory panel for the HHS-funded EHR initiative, Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration, principle, Christiansen IT Law

Dennis Melamed, editor and publisher of Health Information Privacy/Security Alert and adjunct professor, Drexel College of Medicine.

Order on line at www.melamedia.com

or

Download the form at http://www.melamedia.com/121307.Order.Form1.pdf