“Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security”– Conference Sponsored by HHS/OCR and NIST
May 11-12, 2010
Excerpts from NIST site on March 22, 2010
Sponsors: Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Audience: “CIOs & Information Security Officers of HIPAA covered entities & business associates; others responsible for the security of electronic health info; HIT consultants & attorneys.”
Purpose: “The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforces the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information; the HIPAA Security Rule, which sets national standards for the security of electronic protected health information; the confidentiality provisions of the Patient Safety Rule, which protect identifiable information being used to analyze patient safety events and improve patient safety; and, the Breach Notification regulations requiring HIPAA covered entities and their business associates to notify individuals when their health information is breached.”
“NIST’s mission, as a non-regulatory federal agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.”
“This conference will provide a forum to discuss the current HIT security landscape, as well as practical strategies, tips, and techniques for implementing the requirements of the HIPAA Security Rule.”
Topics: “Plenary sessions will discuss a variety of current and important HIT and HIPAA Security Rule topics, including updates on OCR’s administration and enforcement of the HIPAA Security Rule, risk assessments and contingency planning, logging and auditing in a healthcare context, security of health devices, and security considerations for mobile/wireless technologies and new media in healthcare, industry panels discussing breach notification rules and the state of compliance with the Security Rule and much more.”
Location:
Voice of America
Wilbur Cohen Building, Auditorium
330 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20237
(Public Entrance on C Street, SW)
Website:
http://csrc.nist.gov/news_events/HIPAA-May2010_workshop/
Agenda Draft
Registration: On-Line Registration
Registration Fee: $75
Registration closes on 05/04/2010
Refund requests must be submitted in writing by 05/04/2010
Joseph Goedert, HealthDataManagement, broke story on March 19, 2010.
