HIPAA and BYOD

Why Should You Attend:

It is important to understand the new changes going on at Health and Human Services as it relates to enforcement of HIPAA for both covered entities and business associates. You need to know how to avoid being low hanging in terms of audit risk as well as being sued by individuals who have had their PHI wrongfully discloses due to bad IT practices.

This HIPAA training will provide detail regarding you practice or business information technology and how it relates to the HIPAA Security Rule, in particular portable devices. The course instructor have been expert witness on multiple court cases where a business or medical practice is being sued for not doing their due diligence to minimize risk.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Texting, email, encryption, medical messaging and voice data as they relate to IT
• Risk factors for portable media
• What should you do if you receive an audit letter
• Court cases the instructor have been part of relating to bad IT practices
• Examples

Who Will Benefit:

• Practice managers
• MDs and other medical professionals
• 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.)

Instructor Profile:

Brian Tuttle is a Certified Professional in Health IT (CPHIT), Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP), Certified Business Resilience Auditor (CBRA) with over 17 years’ experience in health IT and compliance consulting. Mr. Tuttle has worked all of those 15 years with MAG Mutual Healthcare Solutions and is now senior compliance consultant and IT manager with InGauge Healthcare Solutions (previously MAG Mutual Healthcare Solutions). He is well known and highly regarded in medical circles throughout the United States and has served as expert witness in multiple legal trials relating to HIPAA. Mr. Tuttle has a Master’s Degree in Health Sciences from Georgia State University.

He provides consulting services for: HIPAA Security/Privacy auditing, comprehensive NIST based risk assessments with mitigation, HIPAA awareness training and certification, custom written policies and procedures, public speaking, specialized HIPAA training, subject matter writing, HIPAA consulting and certification for proprietary software companies, and business continuity (disaster recovery) planning and consulting.

With vast experience in health IT systems (i.e. practice management/EMR systems, imaging, transcription, medical messaging, etc.) as well as over 17 years’ experience in standard health IT with multiple certifications and hands-on knowledge, Mr. Tuttle has conducted onsite risk assessments for over 500 medical practices, hospitals, and business associates throughout the United States.

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