How to profit from the new HIPAA/HITECH Act
Abstract:
Join us for an educational Webinar on how to take advantage of the new requirements of the HITECH Act, which became effective on February 18, 2009.
This impacts all health care 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”.
Here are some key points of the new HITECH Act:
HITECH Act: Section 13410(d) of the HITECH Act, which became effective on February 18, 2009, revised section 1176(a) of the Social Security Act (the Act) by establishing:
- Four categories of violations that reflect increasing levels of culpability;
- Four corresponding tiers of penalty amounts that significantly increase the minimum penalty amount for each violation; and
- A maximum penalty amount of $1.5 million for all violations of an identical provision.
It also amended section 1176(b) of the Act by:
- Striking the previous bar on the imposition of penalties if the covered entity did not know and with the exercise of reasonable diligence would not have known of the violation (such violations are now punishable under the lowest tier of penalties); and
- Providing a prohibition on the imposition of penalties for any violation that is corrected within a 30-day time period, as long as the violation was not due to willful neglect.
Who should attend the Webinar:
Managed Service Providers, Managed Security Service Providers and Security VAR’s, Compliance Managers, Auditors
Jim Hare, VP of World-Wide Sales, eGestalt Technologies Inc, USA
