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Working to comply with the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) should now be at the top of any health or managed care organization priority list. To assist you with understanding the myriad requirements of HIPAA and to help your organization assess what it must be doing, Health Resources Publishing has been developing a series of resources.

Following is what is currently available now:

HIPAA for Healthcare Vendors, a new Audio Conference.
According to every industry survey, HIPAA remains the single most pressing challenge facing healthcare providers, payers, and their vendors. Suppliers, staff, and products and services need to be HIPAA-ready. Only covered entities must be HIPAA compliant by the federal deadlines. But, services or solutions must be able to help healthcare client covered entity become HIPAA compliant. The topics include: vendor awareness of legal requirements, identifying vendors’ role in compliance, how vendors’ top management can communicate the importance of HIPAA with staff, how vendors must meet the needs of covered entity clients understanding what procedures need to be me, HIPAA policies and procedures for vendors, if vendors are offering products that support coordination of benefits using the information flow, and if the framework is in place to alert users to scheduled encounters.

To help vendors address these challenges, AHIPAA for Healthcare Vendors, an audio conference sponsored by HIPAA Bulletin for Management, Thursday, September 12, 2002 at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time. To register, go to: http://www.healthresourcesonline.com/edu/hipvend.htm

"Developing Your Organization’s HIPAA Policies and Procedures Under the Final HIPAA Rules", Audio Conference. If your organization is like most health and managed care organizations, there were few existing policies that readily met HIPAA requirements as spelled out in the regulations. To help insure that your organization is on track to meet the policy and procedure requirements by next April, a special audio conference, A Developing Your Organization’s HIPAA Policies and Procedures Under the Final HIPAA Rules" has been scheduled for Wednesday, September 25, at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time. Topics include: update on status of HIPAA and its implementing regulations, organizing your HIPAA policy and procedure implementation, policies and procedures documentation, educating and training your staff on your own policies and procedures, what you need to consider in the development of new privacy policies and procedures that need to be in place by next April, how each department that deals with PHI must create P & P on who uses such information, and what changes, if any, you may need to make to your existing policies and procedures, to make them HIPAA compliant. To register, go to: http://www.healthresourcesonline.com/edu/hipaapp.htm

HIPAA news and information coverage of developments as they unfold are available on a regular basis in HIPAA Bulletin for Management, the industry pace-setting monthly management report on all aspects of health information services relating to the transition of providers and payors to electronic records and Web-enabled applications. For more information visit:
http://www.healthresourcesonline.com/management/26nl.htm

"HIPAA Compliance: Working Through the Priorities" a tape cassette recording of an audio conference featuring presentations by three leading experts on HIPAA. The panelists represented an excellent blend of expertise and backgrounds law, information technology, and strategic planning and management. The speakers addressed your concerns from the "real world" of working right now with clients and they know what your chief concerns are. For complete details click on:
http://www.healthresourcesonline.com/edu/hipaacon.htm

"HIPAA Progress 2002: Your Work Plan Priorities for Compliance" The goal of this special audio conference presentation was to provide real-world, practical solutions and answers to professionals attempting to cope with implementing and complying with the law's provisions. This 90 minute audio conference on CD-ROM makes it easy for you and your HIPAA task force team to hear what our expert speakers had to say about what your organization should be doing now. Included are the speaker handouts and the live questions-and-answer period. $189. For more information visit:
http://www.healthresourcesonline.com/edu/hipaa02.htm

"Developing HIPAA Awareness and Training Programs For Your Staff" This program has been suggested by your colleagues as a needed "next step" in assuring that their organizations adapt the work-a-day "cultural" changes necessary to come into compliance with the HIPAA requirements. Strategies for developing HIPAA education plans must address a broad spectrum of issues. Under section § 164.530, of the HIPAA Administrative requirements, there is the requirement for standard training. This education program is now available on CD-ROM complete with PDF slide handout conference material.
For complete details, click on:
http://www.healthresourcesonline.com/edu/hipedu.htm

"HIPAA Privacy and Security Essentials: Countdown to Compliance" a special report designed to help you understand in plain English the information that healthcare providers, vendors, and payors need to know in the areas of privacy, access, and administrative simplification. Click on:
http://www.healthresourcesonline.com/management/hipps.htm

"HIPAA Solution Providers" The Managed Care Information Center has created a new category of HIPAA Solution Providers for ease of searching at the anagedCareMarketplace.com. Goal of the new category is to help health insurance plans, managed care organizations, healthcare providers, physician practice management and management services organizations quickly find qualified vendors that are offering a variety of solutions, software and services to help with meeting the HIPAA requirements. There are many pieces to the HIPAA puzzle to solve and a review of the vendor offerings can help you speed the process. To explore the ManagedCareMarketplace.com visit:
http://www.ManagedCareMarketPlace.com