HIPAA Audits and Enforcement - Using the HIPAA Audit Protocol to Improve Compliance and Avoid Penalties - Webinar By MentorHealth

In this session we will discuss the HIPAA Audit Protocol to see what kind of questions it has within it, and what needs to be done to be able to answer those questions.

Fremont, CA (prHWY.com) January 28, 2013 - Overview:We will review the new audit processes and discuss what will be asked in an audit and how. Protocols and the questions asked at recent audits will be explained.

Difficulties in using the HIPAA Audit Protocol as presented on the Web will be discussed, and alternative means of using the information in the Protocol will be presented.
The HIPAA Audit Protocol will be explored as a tool for organizing compliance documentation and guiding compliance activities, by exporting the protocol into a spreadsheet for further research, manipulation, and analysis. The kinds of information that can be used in conjunction with the protocol will be discussed.
We will explain the enforcement regulations and their recent changes that increase fines and create new penalty levels, including new penalties for wilful neglect of compliance that begin at $10,000. We will discuss what information and documentation needs to be prepared in advance so that you can be ready for an audit without notice. Sample information request forms and questions asked at prior audits will be presented.
The session will also cover how to know if you may become the subject of an audit or enforcement action, and what you can do to help limit your exposure. We will discuss how most enforcement actions come about and what can be done to prevent incidents that lead to enforcement.
Why should you attend:
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has begun audits of compliance with the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules, and has published the HIPAA Audit Protocol.
Now information is available on how the audits are conducted and what the auditors are looking for, and if you want to stay ahead of the auditors, you will need to be able to quickly respond to audits. The best way to do that is to know what they will ask and have your documentation ready to show for each question.
Areas Covered in the Session:
Find out what the audit process is, what HHS OCR is likely to ask you if you are selected for an audit, and what you'll have to have prepared already when they do.
Learn how to make the HIPAA Audit Protocol useful to you as a way to organize and track your compliance work, and collect your documentation references.
Find out what you'll need to have documented to survive an audit and avoid fines.
Learn how to use an information security management process to evaluate risks and make decisions about how best to protect PHI and meet patient needs and desires.
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 a variety 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.

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