Health Information Compliance Alert
CONFERENCES
CONFERENCE CALENDAR CORNER
Usher in the season's cooler weather with these informative privacy- and security-related conferences scheduled for October:
October 5 - 7 in New York, NY: "Physician Practice Compliance Conference" (Health Care Compliance Association [HCCA]) www.hcca-info.org.
October 12 (1:30 - 2:30 PM EST): "Responding to Government Investigations of Medical Privacy and Security Breaches" (Audioconference; Melamedia) www.melamedia.com/101205.Description.htm.
October 15 - 20 in San Diego: "2005 AHIMA 77th Convention and Exhibit" (AHIMA ) www.ahima.org/convention/2005/index.asp.
October 16 in San Diego: "Fall 2005 Privacy Institute" (American Health Information Management Association [AHIMA]) http://campus.ahima.org/campus/course_info/PSA/PSA_info.htm.
October 22 - 26 in Washington, DC: "American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium" (AMIA) www.amia.org/meetings/annual/current.
October 26 - 28 in Las Vegas: "Privacy Academy" (International Association of Privacy Professionals [IAPP]) www.privacyassociation.org.
October 26 - 28 in Reno: "Annual Conference on m-Health & EOE" (Medical Records Institute) www.medrecinst.com/conferences/mobile/2004/index.asp.
COMING IN NOVEMBER
November 14 - 17 in Tampa, FL: "WEDI 2005 Fall Conference" (Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange) www.wedi.org.
November 14 - 15 in Nashville: "HIPAA Compliance 2005: New Strategies That Safeguard Data" (Strategic Research Institute) www.srinstitute.com/conf_page.cfm?instance_id=25&web_id=734&pid=343.
Health Information Compliance Alert
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CONFERENCE CALENDAR CORNER
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