Attend the only event designed specifically to provide you with best practices and practical solutions for responding to sweeping changes to HIPAA compliance requirements

Enacted in February of 2009, the HITECH Act is ushering in a new era of compliance obligations for any organization handling electronic health records. At press time, several new guidelines, including the much discussed HHS Health Security Breach Notification interim rule, have been released with more to come. Already, significant changes have been announced to the obligations of covered entities and in particular, business associates, by imposing new privacy and security requirements, providing for additional enforcement mechanisms, and making major changes to breach notification requirements. In addition, the recent FTC rule resulted in expanded regulation of entities not covered by HIPAA. And finally, new media notification rules add a potential public relations nightmare to an already complicated situation.

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