Health Information Compliance Alert
Conference Calendar Corner
Don't miss out on any of the informative HIPAA conferences taking place in September: September 26 - 28 in Baltimore: "Fraud & Compliance Forum" (Pricewaterhouse Coop-ers and HCCA) .
September 12 - 14 in Baltimore: "Ninth National HIPAA Summit" (Health Care Conference Administrators)
September 14 (12 PM CST): "HIPAA Security Compliance" (Session 1; Health Care Comp-liance Association [HCCA]) September 14 - 15 in Baltimore: "WEDI Sec-urity Forum" (Workgroup For Electronic Data Interchange) .
September 21 (Time TBA): "HIPAA Security Auditing and Monitoring: Creating, Building and Testing a Strategy to Ensure Your Organ-ization's Compliance" (Healthcare Intelligence Network) .
September 23 (12 PM CST): "HIPAA Security Compliance" (Session 2; HCCA)
September 27 - 29 in Houston: "Certified HIPAA Professional" (HIPAA Academy)
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September 27 - 29 in Boston: "HealthSec 2004 Conference & Expo: Taking Healthcare Security & HIPAA Compliance to the Next Level" (MIS Training Institute)
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September 29 (12 - 1:30 PM EST) "HIPAA Security For Clinical And Database Research" (Association Of Clinical Research Professionals) .
Health Information Compliance Alert
- Privacy:
DON'T TRAMPLE YOUR PATIENTS' RIGHT TO AMEND
Expert tips to help you follow the rules
Scenario: A patient asks you to correct a [...] - Compliance Tips:
WITH AMENDMENT REQUESTS - POLICY MAKES PERFECT
Don't let amendment requests catch you off guard
Don't wait until it's too late to plan [...] - Technology:
ARE YOU TIRED OF KEEPING MUM ON PHI? - Conferences:
Conference Calendar Corner
Don't miss out on any of the informative HIPAA conferences taking place in September:
September 12 [...] - Sample Form:
DON'T GET STUCK IN AN AMENDMENT REQUEST RUT
Speed up the amendment request process and save your compliance efforts
The privacy rule mandates that [...] - Sample Letter:
HOW TO RESPOND TO AMENDMENT REQUESTS
Caution: You cannot just say no
You cannot deny your patients' request to amend information in [...] - Reader Question:
TO TRUST OR NOT TO TRUST?
Question: Our staff wants to be able to access their private health information without going [...] - Reader Question:
COP CAT
Question: One of our nurses has been copying and taking home our physicians' daily schedules. [...] - Health Information News
Seattle Makes First Criminal HIPAA Conviction
A Seattle man pled guilty in federal court Aug. 19 [...]
