On February 17, 2009, healthcare business associate relationships changed. ARRA regulated HIPAA’s privacy rule, which is applicable to both business associates and covered entities. The changes affect any business associate and covered entity engaged in outsourced contracts involving protected health information.
Join with this healthcare panel of industry experts and hear recommendations for managing these changes while meeting the subsequent challenges. Provider Mary Thomason, business associate Gwen Hughes, and attorney
David Mack will use realistic scenarios to illustrate how the respective stakeholders can smoothly expedite and operationalize these federal changes.
This 90-minute program includes:
-Applying HITECH provisions to the relationship between business associates (BA) and covered entities (CE)
-Deciding key contractual terms in business associate agreements
-Developing collaborative processes to respond to incidents, including breach notification
-Illustrative scenarios with practical advice for managing process challenges
-Practice guidance for working together affectively
-Live question and answer period immediately following the presentation