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AGENDA: OPTIONAL PRE-CONFERENCE SYMPOSIUM 
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
  
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7:00 a.m. | 
Registration Commences
  
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PRECONFERENCE SYMPOSIUM
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PRECONFERENCE III: 
Special HIPAA Transactions and Code Sets Implementation
 
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8:00 a.m. | 
Welcome and Introductions
  
William R. Braithwaite, MD, PhD 
"Doctor HIPAA", Chief Medical Officer, Anakam, Inc.; Former Senior Advisor on Health Information Policy, DHHS, Washington, DC (Co chair)
  
Steven S. Lazarus, PhD, CPEHR, CPHIT, CPHIE, FHIMSS 
President, Boundary Information Group; Member, Board of Examiners, Health IT Certification, LLC; Past Chair, WEDI, Denver, CO (Co chair)
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8:15 a.m. | 
Overview of Status of Transaction and Code Sets
  
William R. Braithwaite, MD, PhD 
"Doctor HIPAA", Chief Medical Officer, Anakam, Inc.; Former Senior Advisor on Health Information Policy, DHHS, Washington, DC 
Presentation Material (Acrobat) 
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8:45 a.m. | 
Case Studies in Transaction and Code Sets Implementation and Compliance
  
Steven S. Lazarus, PhD, CPEHR, CPHIT, CPHIE, FHIMSS 
President, Boundary Information Group; Member, Board of Examiners, Health IT Certification, LLC; Past Chair, WEDI, Denver, CO 
Presentation Material (Acrobat) 
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9:30 a.m. | 
Standard ID Cards: Growing Use by Health Plans and State Initiatives
  
Peter Barry 
Independent Consulting Health Care and Information Systems, Peter T Barry Company, Milwaukee, WI 
Presentation Material (Acrobat) 
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10:00 a.m. | 
Break 
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10:30 a.m. | 
The Business Case for the CAQH CORE Findings on Management Support, Work Flow, Identifying the Useful Metrics, etc.
  
Gwendolyn Lohse 
Deputy Director/Managing Director, Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange, Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH), Washington, DC
  
Maggie Fox 
Director, Commercial Systems, I/S Claims & ITS Systems of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN 
Presentation Material (Acrobat) 
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11:30 a.m. | 
Intermountain Case Study
  
James D. Whicker 
Director of EDI, Intermountain Health Care; Immediate Past Chair, WEDI, Salt Lake City, UT 
Presentation Material (Acrobat) 
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12:00 p.m. | 
Preconference Adjournment 
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AGENDA: DAY I: OPENING PLENARY SESSION - HIPAA PRIVACY 
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
  
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1:00 p.m. | 
Introduction
  
Alan S. Goldberg, JD, LLM 
Attorney and Counselor at Law; Past President and Fellow, American Health Lawyers Association, McLean, VA (Co chair)
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1:15 p.m. | 
Keynote Address: HIT Privacy and Security - The New Frontier
  
David Blumenthal, MD, MPH 
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services, Former Director, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Washington, DC
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2:00 p.m. | 
The Role of Privacy, Security and Health Information Exchange on Health Reform
  
William R. Braithwaite, MD, PhD 
"Doctor HIPAA," Chief Medical Officer, Anakam, Inc., Former Senior Advisor on Health Information Policy, DHHS, Washington, DC 
Presentation Material (Acrobat) 
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2:30 p.m. | 
OCR Keynote
  
Sue McAndrew 
Deputy Director for Health Information Privacy, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC 
Presentation Material (Acrobat) 
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3:30 p.m. | 
Practical Approaches to Privacy in Health Reform
  
Deven McGraw, Esq. 
Director, Health Privacy Project, Center for Democracy & Technology; Co chair, Confidentiality, Privacy and Security Workgroup, American Health Information Community, Washington, DC 
Presentation Material (Acrobat) 
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4:00 p.m. | 
State and Federal Laws Affecting Medical Confidentiality 
  
Robert Ellis Smith 
Publisher, Privacy Journal; Author, Privacy: How to Protect What's Left of It and Ben Franklin's Web Site: Privacy and Curiosity from Plymouth Rock to the Internet, Providence, RI 
Presentation Material (Acrobat) 
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4:30 p.m. | 
Break 
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4:45 p.m. | 
Business Associates: the HITECH Changes You Need to Know
  
Rebecca Williams, Esq. 
Partner and Co chair, HIT/HIPAA Practice, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Seattle, WA 
Presentation Material (Acrobat) 
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5:15 p.m. | 
Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Enhancing Privacy and Improving Health Through Research
  
Andrew F. Nelson 
Vice President, HealthPartners, Executive Director, HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 
Presentation Material (Acrobat) 
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5:45 p.m. | 
Those Actions that a Covered Entity (and a Business Associate) Should Take in Response to a Breach of ePHI
  
Frank Ruelas 
Director, Compliance and Risk Management, Maryvale Hospital, Principal, HIPAA Boot Camp, Casa Grande, AZ 
Presentation Material (Acrobat) 
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6:15 p.m. | 
HIT the Ground Running: Risk Management Strategies to Jump Start Your Breach Compliance Program
  
Sharon Klein, Esq. 
Partner, Pepper Hamilton LLP, Orange County, CA 
Presentation Material (Acrobat)
  
Carol Selvey, MHSA, CPHIMS, FHIMSS 
Associate Vice President, Business Development, Iatric Systems, Inc., Boxford, MA
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6:45 p.m. | 
Adjournment 
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