This advanced webinar is updated for 2025 and identifies and examines the role of the HIPAA compliance officer as required to be designated under federal law. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services polices patient privacy and confidentiality violations of a healthcare entity, which is mandated to have a HIPAA compliance officer. The proper role and function of a HIPAA compliance officer is key to education, prevention, and remedying apparent patient confidentiality violations of protected health information.
Find out how the role of the HIPAA compliance officer can be established to comply with your healthcare organization’s mandate to protect patient information. This is an advanced webinar.
Areas Covered in the Session:-
The areas covered in this session include these learning objectives:
- Basics of HIPAA privacy and security;
- Identifying and establishing a HIPAA compliance officer;
- Duties of the compliance officer under HIPAA rules;
- Advantages and disadvantages to having your corporate legal office be designated as the HIPAA compliance officer;
- Whether you may outsource your compliance officer duties;
- What to do if you are a solo health care practitioner – can you be your office’s own HIPAA compliance officer?
- Best practices for the use of the HIPAA compliance officer, and;
- Basic tips and techniques to have an effective, functioning HIPAA compliance officer as updated for 2024.
Background:-
HIPAA privacy and security in a health care setting; duties and obligations of a compliance officer under HIPAA.
Why Should You Attend?
This advanced webinar is updated for 2025 and examines the duties of a HIPAA compliance officer of a healthcare entity and its proper role in helping the healthcare entity comply with HIPAA regarding confidential patient-protected health information.
Learn the updates for 2024 as to what you need to know about the HIPAA compliance officer.
Erase the fear, uncertainty, and doubt by knowing the proper function of the HIPAA compliance officer as updated for 2024.
Who will Benefit?
- HIPAA privacy officers
- Medical records workers
- Health care attorneys.
Speaker
Brian L Tuttle Nationally Renowned HIPAA Compliance Consultant CPHIT, CHP, CHA, CCNA, CISSP, CBRA, Net +, “The HIPAA Guy” is a Certified Professional in Health IT (CPHIT), Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP), Certified HIPAA Administrator (CHA), Certified Business Resilience Auditor (CBRA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) with over 18 years' experience in Health IT and Compliance Consulting. With vast experience in health IT systems (i.e. practice management, EHR systems, imaging, transcription, medical messaging, etc.) as well as over 18 years’ experience...
