Press Release

Wall Township, N.J., December 05, 2002 - "HIPAA Auditing and Monitoring: Creating, Building and Testing a Strategy To Ensure Your Organization's Compliance," a new audio-conference on CD-ROM sponsored by the Healthcare Intelligence Network, provides an opportunity to help for your organization to learn how to meet the requirements of HIPAA.

The 90-minute program on CD-Rom provides a practical, real-world overview of how healthcare organizations are overcoming the roadblocks encountered when developing portals and the return on their investment of a provider portal. You’ll get the details on:

• Strategies for identifying goals and/or outcomes your organization will want to achieve as you plan and implement a HIPAA compliance program - both from a transaction code sets (TCS) and privacy perspective;
• Building compliance into the program during implementation
• Testing your program before April 2003
• Monitoring techniques and processes
• The requirements for audits – when to perform them, how to perform them and who should perform them
• Keeping an audit trail of disclosures
• Tests for auditing reasonableness
• University of Missouri Health Care’s three dimensional approach to auditing, including random audits of patients, random audits of staff and targeted audits.

The audio-conference included presentations by:

• Christine Jensen, HIPAA Project Manager, Denver Health
• Mikel Lynch, Privacy Officer, University of Missouri Health Care

This important conference is a MUST for Executives, Patient Care Administrators, HIPAA Team Leaders, Privacy Officers,Planners, Business Developers, Product Managers, Knowledge Managers andStrategic and Implementing Consultants, Hospitals, Health Insurers,Managed Care Organizations, Laboratories, Pharmaceutical Companies, Clearinghouses, Physician Practice Management Executives, Medical Device Manufactuers, Healthcare Technology Companies.

For more information, please visit http://www.hin.com/store/p1701.html, e-mail info@hin.com or call toll-free (888) 446-3530.

About the Healthcare Intelligence Network-- The Healthcare Intelligence Network provides a most comprehensive source of news and analysis for healthcare professionals. For more information on any of the publications available at www.hin.com, contact the Healthcare Intelligence Network, PO Box 1442, Wall Township, NJ 07719-1442, (888) 446-3530, fax (732) 292-3073, e-mail info@hin.com, http://www.hin.com.

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