Health Information Compliance Alert
Are You Sure Your EHR System's Compliant?
Here is your opportunity to further your knowledge of how to ensure the integrity of patient health information and the nitty gritty of the omnibus HIPAA/HITECH final rule.
“The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) are co-hosting the 6th annual conference Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security on May 21 & 22, 2013 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.”according to a Feb. 28 HHS press release.
Topics include securing mobile devices; integrating safeguards into EHR management; ID theft; managing insider threats; and the final rule. You can attend in person or through a live webcast. Access to archived material will be one of the major benefits accruing to attendees.
For more information on this upcoming conference, check out www.nist.gov/itl/csd/2013-hipaa-conference.cfm.
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