Webinar on HIPAA Compliance for the Business Associate from MentorHealth on July 19

Fremont, CA:“HIPAA Compliance for the Business Associate” is the title of a 90-minute webinar that MentorHealth, a leading provider of professional trainings for the healthcare industry, is organizing on July 19. The expert at this webinar, Brian Tuttle, a very senior health IT professional will give a thorough understanding of the specific risks thatBusiness Associates face in relation with HIPAA compliance. Please enroll for this webinar by visiting

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New laws and funding have tightened the screws on HIPAA compliance on Business Associates like never before. Having a foolproof, watertight HIPAA compliance program is the only way for Business Associates to remain compliant with HIPAA and thus insulate themselves from the high negative fallouts that noncompliance entails. This HIPAA compliance program should be risk based and be free from blemishes when HIPAA audits take place.

The ways of implementing such a HIPAA compliance program will be the essence of the learning this webinar is going to impart. Not only does the federal law on this topic require HIPAA compliance; even Covered Entities, for whom Business Associates work, are scrutinizing HIPAA compliance requirements to a high degree before they satisfy themselves about working with Business Associates.Putting in place a HIPAA compliance program that meets the requirements needed from Business Associates is the essence of HIPAA compliance.

Critical need for putting a risk based HIPAA compliance program in place

Theneed for a risk based HIPAA compliance program has become acute for several reasons:

The patient’s ability to sue for wrongful disclosure has gone up in manifold ways

HIPAA is now being used to sue for even state cases of negligence

Wrongfullydisclosing PHI due to bad IT or internal administrative practices can invite penalties.

Part of the difficulty associated with implementing HIPAA compliance is the misconceptions and myths about HIPAA compliance that abounds in the industry. Helping to eradicate these myths is one of the principal aims of this webinar. Brian will describe the highest factors for which Business Associates can get sued or audited. He will also show how the Omnibus Rule is being aimed at Business Associates to increase the likeliness of being sued.

In short, Brian will show how Business Associates need to prepare for HIPAA audits and build a risk-based HIPAA compliance strategy free from the myths surrounding HIPAA compliance. He will clarify on the several types of misinformation that characterizes HIPAA compliance.

The Omnibus Rule and the changes in it

The expert will explain the major changes under the Omnibus Rule and any other applicable updates for 2018. The ways of safeguarding all the elements of a HIPAA audits, such as texting, email, encryption, medical messaging, voice data and risk factors as they relate to IT, will be explained. The learning he is going to impart is gathered from the experience of having conducted over a thousand risk assessments he has done during his career.

Brian will cover the following areas at this webinar:

Updates for 2018

Requirements of Business Associates

How to prove compliance to covered entities (clients)

New definition of what constitutes protected health information

Real life litigated cases

BYOD

Portable devices

Business associates and the increased burden of litigation

Emailing of PHI

Texting of PHI

Federal Audit Process

HIPAA and suing - How this works

Risk Assessment

Best Resources.

This webinar is aimed at offering learning to Practice Managers, any Business Associates who work with medical practices or hospitals (i.e. billing companies, transcription companies, IT companies, answering services, home health, coders, attorneys,etc.), and MD's and other medical professionals.