New penalties for willful neglect of compliance are mandatory and start at $10,000 Minimum

The HITECH Act within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) includes a number of changes to how the HIPAA regulations will be enforced and the penalties that will be applied.

HIPAA can now apply directly to individuals in cases of wrongful disclosure.

Add to this the fact that HIPAA compliance will now be actively audited by the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR), and full compliance with HIPAA becomes a very serious issue.

Self-auditing your HIPAA compliance before OCR does it for you is now an essential part of the avoidance of these penalties.

The icing on the cake is that now state attorneys general can now also bring civil action in federal court under HIPAA.

Join compliance expert Jim Sheldon-Dean to find out what the new penalty structure is and how to best prepare to minimize the penalties for any violations that may occur. Learn the various deadlines involved as the new penalties go into effect so you can properly prepare for compliance

Here's a sample of you will learn:

• The new HIPAA violation penalty structure
• What makes a wrongful disclosure and how that is different from other violations
• What is “willful neglect” and how that applies to various kinds of violations
• The minimum and maximum penalties for violations
• Zoom in on the compliance work that must be done to avoid penalties
• Get the scoop on the new HIPAA compliance audit plan and how it affects your organization
• See if you’re ready for a full HIPAA compliance audit
• What happens to the penalties and what that means to compliance and audits

Who should attend? Compliance Officer, Information Security Manager, Privacy Officer, Chief Information Officer, information Systems Manager, Health Information Manager, Office Manager, Practice Director, CEO, President, CFO, COO, attorney, counsel, HIPAA compliance officer.

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Jim Sheldon-Dean is the founder and director of compliance services at Lewis Creek Systems, LLC, a Vermont-based consulting firm founded in 1982, providing information privacy and security regulatory compliance services to health care firms and businesses throughout the Northeast and nationally. Sheldon-Dean’s firm provides a variety of advisory, training, assessment, policy development, project management and mitigation services for a number of health care providers, businesses, universities, small and large hospitals, urban and rural mental health and social service agencies, health insurance plans and health care business associates.  He serves on the HIMSS Information Systems Security Workgroup, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange Privacy and Security Workgroup, and co-chairs the WEDI HIPAA Updates sub-workgroup.  Sheldon-Dean is a participating member of the advisory board of Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL), and has participated in VITL’s Vermont Health Information Technology Plan working group, VITL’s Physician EMR adoption project, and the Security Workgroup of the New Hampshire/Vermont Strategic HIPAA Implementation Plan (NHVSHIP).  He is a frequent speaker regarding HIPAA and information privacy and security compliance issues at seminars and conferences, including speaking engagements at AHIMA national conventions and WEDI national conferences, and before the New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, Health Information Management Associations of New York City, New York State, and Vermont, the Connecticut Hospital Association, and the Hospital and Health System Association of Pennsylvania.

Sheldon-Dean has over 25 years of experience in policy analysis and implementation, business process analysis, information systems and software development.  His experience includes leading the development of health care related Web sites; award-winning, best-selling commercial utility software; and mission-critical, fault-tolerant communications satellite control systems.  In addition, he has eight years of experience doing hands-on medical work as a Vermont certified volunteer emergency medical technician.  Sheldon-Dean received his B.S. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Vermont and his master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.