HIPAA/HITECH Compliance - Requirements, Caveats and Best Practices for Medical Practitioners and Small Businesses

Abstract of Webinar:

HIPAA/HITECH compliance is a complex and ever evolving subject affecting millions of health care businesses. Some new changes have been put into law that affects medical practitioners and smaller businesses. These new requirements, as listed below, significantly increase the risk and fines for non-compliance, including removing the clause that “if the covered entity did not know”. Penalties are being imposed for non-compliance which are being increasingly enforced.

This educational Webinar has been exclusively designed to address and help you understand:

• Overview of HIPAA/HITECH and its impact on medical practitioners and small businesses
• Proposed HIPAA/HITECH changes and how the recent changes will affect the scope and extent of compliance requirements focusing on smaller medical practices
• Best Practices and Caveats, Real World Experiences: Common HIPAA/HITECH Compliance Risks and Problems
• Introduction to automated tools to detect, collect and manage evidence for HIPAA/HITECH compliance to achieve peace of mind at an affordable cost

Who should attend the Webinar?

Medical Practitioners, Healthcare compliance Audience, Managed Service Providers, Managed Security Service Providers and Security VAR’s, IT Compliance Audience, Compliance Managers, Auditors

Presenter:

Anupam Sahai, President, eGestalt Technologies, Inc.

Anupam is an accomplished management, marketing, and technology leader, with 21+ years of experience, directing teams of up to 50 professionals to develop and launch globally-renowned products. He has a Bachelors degree in Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, INDIA, Masters in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur, INDIA and a Masters in engineering plus an MBA from Sloan School of Management, both from MIT, Cambridge, MA. He has to his credit three world-wide patents, has published 10 technical papers and is a featured speaker at several industry conferences worldwide.

Vasukinath Rao, Director Technical Services, eGestalt Technologies, Inc.

Vasukinath (Vasuki) is a seasoned service management professional with over 17 years of experience specializing in building right sized infrastructure and tools to accelerate the service success. Prior to eGestalt he was with Juniper Networks as Customer Service Manager.