HIPAA Planning for 2018 - Protecting Patient Information Privacy and Security

This HIPPA compliance webinar will discuss the issues in patient information privacy and security that healthcare organizations will face in 2018 and how to ensure compliance with HIPAA that will withstand incidents, audits, and investigations by HHS.

Why Should You Attend:

This session will provide the attendee a review of the current enforcement actions, audit focus, privacy, security, and breach issues, and expected regulatory changes in HIPAA, and help the compliance specialist prepare for a year of HIPAA work including responding to issues and planning for regular compliance activities.

The most significant issues facing HIPAA professionals will be presented as well as the regular processes that should be in place to help avoid issues in the first place. We will discuss how to consider risk analysis as a means to planning your mitigation activities, and how to plan out dealing with the issues discovered in he analysis, describing how to use simple tools to manage your compliance over time. The importance of using all the safeguards in the regulations will be illustrated by one result of not monitoring access of health information: a $5.5 million penalty for not monitoring access and allowing inappropriate access to continue for years unchecked.