HIPAA compliance expectations from Small Healthcare Providers

For The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Business Associate is a major component. According to HIPAA, a Business Associate (BA) is an organization or a person who works with or provides service to a Covered Entity. A CE is one who handles or discloses Protected Health Information (PHI). This makes a Business Associate any person or entity that is involved in creating, receiving, maintaining or transmitting PHI to a CE for a purpose or activity or function as mandated and regulated by the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

Small businesses struggle with meeting HIPAA requirements

There are specific requirements that small healthcare practices need to put in place and to show that their program is current and meets the regulatory requirements set out in HIPAA. They need to conceive and implement a HIPAA compliance program that meets the requirements set out in this legislation. The compliance program should not only be adequate; it should be robust and resilient enough to withstand HIPAA’s strict scrutiny at various levels.

Helping small healthcare providers with the knowledge and skill needed for meeting HIPAA requirements is the purpose of a two-day seminar that is being organized by GlobalCompliancePanel, a leading provider of professional trainings for all the areas of regulatory compliance. At this seminar, Jay Hodes, who is a leading expert in HIPAA compliance and President of Colington Consulting, which provides HIPAA consulting services for healthcare providers and Business Associates, will be the Director.

Want to get a complete understanding of the requirements that small healthcare providers need to meet to comply with HIPAA requirements? Just register for this learning session by visiting HIPAA compliance expectations from Small Healthcare Providers.

Full explanation of what all a small business provider needs to do

This seminar is particularly created for small healthcare providers who have a difficulty in understanding the HIPAA compliance requirements and meeting them. It will be useful for those of various business sizes, but is primarily focused on the small healthcare provider. Jay will impart the kind of teaching with which organizations will be able to meet all of the HIPAA, HITECH, and Omnibus Rules.

The basis to implementing the requirements of compliance program is to first fully understand them. This is the learning that this seminar will offer. At the end of two days of intense learning that will be interspersed with lively presentations; participants will have inculcated a full grasp of all of the requirements for a comprehensive HIPAA compliance program. They will also have got a clear understanding of the kind of steps that they need to take to mitigate risk.

Steps needed to develop, review and amend HIPAA

The Director will include practical exercises over these two days that will help participants know all that is needed for developing, reviewing, and amending HIPAA policy and procedure. He will equip the participants with a clear roadmap for what needs to be place when it comes to all of the HIPAA regulations.

Over the two days, Jay will cover the following areas:

o  Why was HIPAA created?

o  Who Must Comply with HIPAA Requirements?

o  What are the HIPAA Security and Privacy Rules?

o  What are the Consequences of being a Business Associate

o  What is a HIPAA Compliance Program for a Business Associate?

o  What is a HIPAA Risk Management Plan?

o  What is a HIPAA Risk Assessment?

o  What is the Role of the HIPAA Security Official?

o  What are HIPAA training requirements?

o  What is a HIPAA data breach and what happens if it occurs?

o  What are the penalties and fines for non-compliance and how to avoid them

o  Case Examples of HIPAA Data Breaches

o  Creating a Culture of Compliance

o  Q&A.