Healthcare

Overview: The HIPAA Rules and HHS/OCR guidance provide a simple, easy to use 3 Step Safe Harbor for using unencrypted email and text messaging to engage patients. This session will explain the 3 Step HIPAA Safe Harbor. The secret is - HIPAA Rules are easy to follow, step-by-step - when you know the steps. Why should you Attend: Patient Engagement is a cornerstone of effective patient care. Communication technology offers indispensable patient engagement tools. Secure patient portals are available. So are encrypted text message and email products. But patients overwhelmingly choose non-secure communication tools like text messaging and email. Appointment reminders, healthcare instructions, patient satisfaction surveys, health and wellness newsletters and recall reminders are just a few patient engagement tools sent electronically by regular (unencrypted) email and text messaging.

Everyone in the healthcare industry knows about HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), that has been in effect since 1996. The goal of the legislation was fairly simple - to safeguard our patient health information. The law dictated to entities how to protect health information (PHI), how it can be shared, when it can be shared, and with whom it can be shared. To date, even the best of healthcare organizations struggle with feeling confident that they have all the required areas covered to protect and prevent HIPAA violations from occurring in their organization. It is well documented that by initiating proper training and implementing effective monitoring tools, HIPAA violations can be reduced or more readily identified in the workplace. Often there is not clear communication to employees about "what constitutes a HIPAA breach" and how can this be reported in your organization without "fear of retaliation."

This lecture will provide an overview of how to read and interpret a typical physician or health care provider employment or contractor agreement.It is critical that any agreement that an employee or contractor is required to sign be provided to the employee or contractor well in advance of the start date with plenty of time and opportunity to review and revise as needed. The presenter will begin by outlining the difference between being an employee and a contractor, and what the ramifications are of each classification, as well as providing a general overview of other basic business considerations when considering an employment or contractor position of any kind. Attendees will learn how to interpret basic agreement terms and learn how to eliminate the term "boilerplate" and "legalese" from their vocabulary when considering such contracts.

Research data repeatedly indicate that patient outcomes improve when patients are involved and engaged in their own healthcare. Social media can be the ideal opportunity to expand the patient-doctor relationship beyond the traditional face-to-face encounters. However, being aware of inadvertent disclosure of PHI, such as photos or videos, can result in fines and other penalties. To effectively manage this, healthcare organizations should provide HIPAA training to social media managers and conduct compliance checks with continued monitoring. According to a survey conducted January 2016, by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) and Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA), cybersecurity and cybercrime tops the list of compliance and ethics professionals'hot topics.

Medical coding is the foundation of the US healthcare system. Medical codes are essential for billing and claims, reimbursement, healthcare analytics, risk scoring, physician compensation, among many other uses.Every claim includes multiple codes from various coding systems. This webinar explains the use of five of the most common schemes in use today: CPT and HCPCS codes, ICD-10 codes, DRGs, and APCs. For each system, we discuss how codes are assigned; where they appear on the claim; how they are used for billing and reimbursement; which types of claims are subject to each coding scheme; and other features of each system. We also provide tips for analyzing data containing these codes.

E-mail has long been a staple of people's lives, but as we move into the new digital age, it seems everyone is moving to a new smart phone and wants to use it in all the incredible ways it can be used for health care purposes, including the use of e-mail and texting. Doctors are finding that texting is far more flexible, convenient, and effective than paging, and patients want to be able to use short message texting for handling of appointments, updates, and the like, where even e-mail or the telephone would seem inconvenient. In order to integrate the use of e-mail and texting into patient communications, it is essential to perform the proper steps in an information security compliance process to evaluate and address the risks of using the technology. This session will describe the information security compliance process, how it works, and how it can help you decide how to integrate e-mail and texting into your organization in a compliant way.

Overview: Manufacturers of any class of medical devices are NEVER exempted from the Quality System regulation complaint requirements (820.198) or the general record requirements (820.180) which permit FDA review and copying of these records. Medical Device firms and Designated Agents for foreign firms don't understand the entire realm of the complaint process. Learn what it takes to stay in compliance and avoid risk to your products being removed from the market once you have received your PMA or 510(k).

Overview: This webinar will provide the regulatory requirements (US) of 21 CFR Section 820.50 (Purchasing Control) for the Medical Device industry and provide you with examples. It will furnish details on what should your Purchasing/Supplier Control management system address. Supply chain activities (including, the increase in outsourcing materials, components , manufacturing and services) have become more complex to manufacturers and oversight has become more challenging and complicated. Manufacturers are required to manage carefully their entire supply chain. Purchasing and Supplier Control deficiencies have ranked in the top 10 deficiencies related to warning letters.

Overview: This webinar explains the logic behind sample-size choice for several statistical methods that are commonly used in verification or validation efforts, and how to express a valid statistical justification for a chosen sample size. The statistical methods discussed during the webinar include the following: Confidence intervals Process Control Charts Process Capability Indices Confidence / Reliability Calculations MTBF Studies ("Mean Time Between Failures" of electronic equipment) QC Sampling Plans

This training introduces and discusses resilience in healthcare practice in five general areas. Each of the areas or modules is extremely important to the success and continued growth of your practice. Regardless of whether you are a general medical practitioner or a specialist in practice, or whether you are in a solo or group practice, working diligently and dealing effectively with ongoing adversity is your key to a more resilient practice.

This webinar will identify the range of individual characteristics displayed by students on the Autism Spectrum, explain what happened to Asperger's Syndrome, and review the challenges of college life for students with ASD. Participants will learn practical strategies to assist, coach, and support students on the Autism Spectrum as they transition to living independently and are stretched academically, socially, and personally. At the end of this program, participants will have a better understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorder and how they can help college students on the Autism Spectrum achieve success.

We will be discussing some of the changes taking place in Washington with the Health and Human Services in regards to the enforcement of the HIPAA laws already on the books. I will go over some of the new changes affecting covered entities and business associates. I will also be discussing factors might cause an unwanted visit or letter from the Office of Civil Rights and how to prepare for the audit and deal with the Feds.

This lesson will be addressing how practice/business managers (or compliance offers) need to get their HIPAA house in order as HIPAA is now fully enforced and the government is not using kid gloves any more. It will also address major changes under the Omnibus Rule and any other applicable updates for 2016 and beyond. There are an enormous amount of issues and risks for covered entities and business associates these days. I will speak on specific experiences from over 17 years of experience in working as an outsourced compliance auditor, expert witness on HIPAA cases, and thoroughly explain how patients are now able to get cash remedies for wrongful disclosures of private health information.

The presentation will provide an overview of the Federal Stark and Anti-Kickback laws and corresponding regulations including the history and purpose of these laws. The presenter will provide the background upon which these laws were determined to be necessary and developed. The attendees will be provided with an overview and description of the laws, why they were instituted, what they do and do not cover and who they are and are not applicable to. Once the basic constructs of the laws themselves are reviewed, the presenter will then go over the most common exceptions to these laws. Exceptions include specific scenarios in which the law allows physicians, practices and providers to participate in activities that may otherwise be deemed prohibited under both laws.

Overview: This course offers extensive examination of the FDA's regulations of biological products such as HCT/Ps from pre-clinical testing to post-marketing regulatory requirements. Specific ethical and regulatory considerations will be discussed for various HCT/Ps. For example, in 2006, the U.S. FDA implemented regulations governing the use of human cells, tissues, and cellular and tissue-based products in humans including bone, ligament, skin, dura mater, stem cells, cartilage cells, and various other cellular and tissue-based products.

Overview: Project Management is defined as the planning and organization of an organization's resources in order to move a specific task, event or duty toward completion. However, Validation of Computerized Systems has a very specific set of tasks that are often mismanaged, resulting in missed deadlines, increased costs, and regulatory risk, and missed times to market for a company's product.

Overview: Every biopharmaceutical company has SOPs, and new staff members are told that the company "has to have them" and that each employee "has to follow them". But why do there have to be SOPs and why must we follow them as written? And how can we do this effectively? Perhaps if everything always executed as planned then we would not need procedures, but this is not the case in the real world. An SOP or Standard Operating Procedure is used to ensure business processes are well thought through, that each task in a process is performed the same way every time, and important data is recorded, along with errors or deviations so corrective action can be taken. Standard operating procedures used in combination with planned training and regular performance feedback lead to an effective and motivated workforce.

Attachment-based family therapy (ABFT) is a manualized, empirically informed and supported, family therapy model specifically designed to target family and individual processes associated with adolescent suicide and/or depression. ABFT emerges from interpersonal theories that suggest adolescent depression and suicide can be precipitated, exacerbated, or buffered against by the quality of interpersonal relationships in families. It is a trust-based, emotion-focused psychotherapy model that aims to repair interpersonal ruptures and rebuild an emotionally protective, secure-based parent-child relationship.

Discussions, presentation, and webinars regarding HIPAA regulations are usually addressed from the perspective of what the regulations entail, the necessity of compliance with the regulations, and the consequences of willful neglect or non-compliance.

This one-day seminar will get into the fine details of what we need to do and how to do it. We will go point by point through the entire HIPAA Security Rule and uncover simple methods to comply and create policy. The primary goal is to ensure everyone is well educated on what is myth and what is reality with this law, as there is so much misleading information regarding the do's and don'ts with HIPAA. I want to add clarity for compliance officers. It will also address major changes under the Omnibus Rule and any other applicable updates for 2018.