Webinar Details

HIPAA Training for the Compliance Officer – What You Need to Know – 2024 Updates

Speaker

Mark R. Brengelman

Speciality

HIPAA and Compliance Conference

Available

All Days

Duration

60 minutes

Description

This advanced webinar 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 health care 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

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 examines the duties of a HIPAA compliance officer of a health care entity and its proper role in helping the health care 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 Should Attend

  • HIPAA privacy officers
  • Medical records workers
  • Health care attorneys

Registration Options

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Recording & Transcript $399
Transcript $229
DVD $249
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Mark R. Brengelman

Mark R. Brengelman became interested in law when he graduated with both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Philosophy from Emory University in Atlanta. He earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Kentucky College of Law.  Mark became an Assistant Attorney General in Kentucky in the area of administrative and professional law as the assigned counsel and prosecuting attorney to numerous health professions licensure boards.

He retired from the state government, became certified as a hearing officer, and opened his own law practice, including working as a legislative agent (lobbyist).

As a frequent participant in continuing education, Mark has been a presenter for over thirty national and state organizations and private companies as the:

Kentucky Bar Association
Kentucky Office of the Attorney General
National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute, and
Federation of Associations of Regulatory Boards.
This also includes multiple, national healthcare organizations, including:

Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards
Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy
National Council of State Boards of Nursing
National Association of State Emergency Medical Services Officials
National Association of State Contractors Licensing Agencies, and
American Association of Veterinary State Boards

Mark was the founding presenter for “Navigating Ethics and Law for Mental Health Professionals,” a continuing education training approved by five Kentucky mental health licensure boards.  He also founded “The Kentucky Code of Ethical Conduct:  Ethical Practice; Risk Management, and; the Code of Ethical Conduct” as an approved, state-mandated continuing education for social workers offered as a video-on-demand.

Mark has now worked for all three branches of state government has worked since June 2018 as the Enforcement Counsel for the Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission, an independent regulatory body that oversees 138 elected state legislators and nearly 800 registered lobbyists.  Continuing as an ethics attorney, Mark is also the contract counsel for the Ethics Commission of the Louisville Metro Government, a city and county merged government, the largest city in Kentucky, and the 45th largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States.

Mark focuses on representing health care practitioners before licensure boards and in other professional regulatory matters and representing children as Guardian ad Litem and parents as Court Appointed Counsel in confidential child dependency, neglect, and abuse proceedings and termination of parental rights proceedings in family court.