New HIPAA regulations now in place put HIPAA business associates directly under the HIPAA rules.

New regulatory language pertaining to HIPAA BAs has been issued, with a delay in enforcement that will end in only a few months – it is essential to prepare for compliance now or risk significant penalties.

Business Associates must be in compliance with HIPAA Privacy and Security protections, and must also ensure all their contractors meet Business Associate requirements as well - this means that new agreements must be established, as well as old ones be amended.

Join HIPAA compliance expert Jim Sheldon-Dean to learn how business associates are now handled under the law and the new regulations and what has changed.

Jim will walk you through the suggested and the required content for a compliant business associate agreement. PLUS: How to assign liability and costs in the event of a breach will be discussed.

Here's a glimpse of what covered:

• The new HIPAA Business Associate rules change the game for HIPAA compliance responsibility
• The new kinds of businesses now covered as HIPAA BAs
• What needs to go into a compliant HIPAA Business Associate agreement
• What’s in the new regulatory language for HIPAA business associates
• How a BA deals with making their contractors compliant under the new rules
• New responsibilities and new liabilities for business associates
• Develop a compliance plan and prepare for a HIPAA audit
• PLUS: HIPAA penalty structure, wrongful disclosures, and willful neglect of compliance

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, contracts manager.

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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.