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THE NINTH NATIONAL HIPAA SUMMIT
The Leading Forum on Healthcare EDI, Privacy, Confidentiality, Data Security and HIPAA Compliance

With a Special Track on the Privacy and Security Issues Raised by the New Health Information Technology Policy, Including Electronic Health Records and the National Health Information Infrastructure

September 12 - 14, 2004

Offered in Conjunction with the
WEDI SECURITY FORUM
September 14 - 15, 2004

Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel
Baltimore, MD

Silver Grantors

HIPAA Summit
Sponsored by:
American Academy of Professional Coders
American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management
American Association of Medical Transcription
American Association of Preferred Provider Organizations
American Medical Group Association
Association for Electronic Health Care Transactions
Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors, Inc.
Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems
Association of Telehealth Service Providers
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
Catholic Health Association
Disease Management Association of America
E-Health Initiative
Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission
Federation of American Hospitals
Food and Drug Law Institute
Health Insurance Association of America
Health Level Seven
Health Technology Center
Healthcare Leadership Council
Hi-Ethics
HIMSS
Integrated Healthcare Association
International Association of Privacy Professionals
Internet Healthcare Coalition
IPA Association of America
MCOL
Medical Device Manufacturers Association
Medical Group Management Association
Medical Records Institute
Medical Transcription Industry Alliance
National Association of Claim Processing Professionals
National Association of Medical Staff Services
National Business Coalition on Health
National Council for Prescription Drug Programs
North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance
Phoenix Health Systems
Professional Association of Health Care Office Management
Southern HIPAA Administrative Regional Process
(URAC) American Accreditation HealthCare Commission
Washington Business Group on Health
Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange
Work Group for the Computerization of Behavioral Health and Human Services Records

Co-Sponsored by:
Advance for Health Information Executives
Advance for Health Information Professionals
AIS HIPAA Patient Privacy Guide
AIS Report on Patient Privacy
AIS Report on Medicare Compliance
AHA News
BNA's Privacy and Security Law Report
BNA's Health Care Fraud Report
BNA's Health Law Reporter
Briefings on Coding Compliance Strategies
Briefings on HIPAA
Compliance Hotline
eHealth Insider
Employer's Guide to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Employer's Guide to HIPAA Privacy Requirements
e-Healthcare Market Reporter
FierceBiotech
Group Practice Journal
Guide to Medical Privacy and HIPAA
Health Affairs Journal
Health Data Management
Health Information Compliance Insider
Health Information Privacy Alert
Health Law Update
Health Management Technology
Healthcare Compliance Portfolio
Healthcare Financial Management
Healthcare Forum Journal
Healthcare Informatics
Healthcare Intelligence Network
Healthcare Publishing News
Healthcare Risk Management Report
HealthLeaders
HIPAA and ehealth for Facility Management
HIPAA and eHealth for Physician Practices
HIPAA Desk Reference
HIPAA Implementation Newsletter
HIPAA Privacy Staff Trainer
Hospital Litigation & Liability Alert
Hospitals & Health Networks
Ingenix
Inside Healthcare Computing
Inside HIPAA Compliance
Interactive Healthcare Report
Internet Medicine
Jenks Healthcare Business Report
Journal of Health Care Compliance
Journal of Health Policy
Politics & Law
Managed Care Report
Managed Healthcare
Market Report
MD Computing
Millin's Health Fraud Monitor
Modern Healthcare
Modern Physician
Physician Practice Compliance Alert
Physician Practice Compliance Report
Practical Guidance on HIPAA and eHealth
Privacy Law Adviser
Privacy Officers' Advisor
Strategies for Health Care Compliance
Medical Education Collaborative
A Nonprofit Education Organization

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SUSAN McANDREW OF THE OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS RECEIVED DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

Susan McAndrew, Esq., Senior Advisor for HIPAA Privacy Policy, Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC, received the HIPAA SUMMIT IX DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD at the Ninth National HIPAA Summit in Baltimore, Maryland on September 13, 2004. This award is given to those who have made a unique and substantial contribution to the achievement of the mission of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

SAVE THE DATE

The Health Information Technology Summit
The Leading Forum on the Electronic Health Records and Rapidly Emerging Health Information Technology Policy...both Globally and Nationally

October 21 - 23, 2004
Renaissance Marriott Hotel
Washington, DC

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

David Brailer, MD, Ph.D.
National Health Information Technology Coordinator, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Richard M. Campanelli, Esq.
Director, Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Dianne Faup
Advisor to the Office of HIPAA Standards, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD

Joy Glass
Business Standards and Systems Operations Group, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD

Gary Kavanagh
Director, Business Standards and Systems Operations Group, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD

Susan McAndrew, Esq.
Senior Advisor for HIPAA Privacy Policy, Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

SUMMIT CO CHAIRS:

Alan S. Goldberg, JD, LLM
Partner, Goulston & Storrs, Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law and Suffolk University Law School, Past President, American Health Lawyers Association, Washington, DC

Steven S. Lazarus, Ph.D., FHIMSS
President, Boundary Information Group, Immediate Past Chair, WEDI, Denver, CO

Janet Marchibroda
Chief Executive Officer, eHealth Initiative, Foundation for eHealth Initiative and Markle Foundation's Connecting for Health, Washington, DC

William R. Braithwaite, MD, Ph.D.
"Doctor HIPAA", Former National Director, HIPAA Advisory Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Former Senior Advisor on Health Information Policy, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

FEATURED FACULTY:

Margret Amatayakul, RHIA, CHPS, FHIMSS
President, Margret\A Consulting, LLC, Schaumburg, IL

W. Holt Anderson
Executive Director, North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Inc. (NCHICA), Research Triangle Park, NC

Gary A. Beatty
President, EC Integrity, Chair, X12N Insurance Subcommittee, Stewartville, MN

Robert Belfort, Esq.
Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, New York, NY

Leslie C. Bender, Esq.
General Counsel/Compliance Officer, The ROI Companies, Timonium, MD

Lesley Berkeyheiser
Principal, The Clayton Group, Co-chair, WEDI SNIP Security & Privacy Workgroup, Glen Mills, PA

Richard B. Boyer
Privacy Officer, Children's Medical Center Dallas, Dallas, TX

Sharon A. Budman
Director of Privacy & Security/Ombudsman, University of Miami Privacy Office, University of Miami Medical School, Miami, FL

Cathleen Casagrande
Director, Health Information Policy, Frederick Memorial Healthcare System, Frederick, MD

John Casillas
Founder and Senior Advisor, Medical Banking Project, Franklin, TN

Art Conklin
Director of FirstProxy Services, ProxyMed, Atlanta, GA

Walt Culbertson
Chief Technology and Privacy Officer, Webify Solutions, Chair, Southern HIPAA Administrative Regional Process(SHARP), Co-chair, WEDI SNIP Security & Privacy Workgroup, Co-Chair, Southern Insurance Commissioner Task Force, Jacksonville, Fl

Jim Daley
Manager, Information Systems, Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Member, WEDI Executive Committee, Chair, WEDI Information Exchange, Chair, Management Committee, Columbia, SC

Tom Dean
President, MBEXX, Oklahoma City, OK

Cecilia DeLoach, HEM
State Partnership Program Director, Hospitals for a Healthy Environment, Washington, DC

David A. Feinberg, CD
President, Rensis Corporation, Co-chair, X12 Insurance Subcommittee's HIPAA Implementation and Coordination Work Group, Seattle, WA

Rachel Foerster
Chief Executive Officer, Rachel Foerster & Associates Ltd., Beach Park, IL

Diana C. Frew, RN
Chief Privacy Officer, Baptist Health South Florida, Coral Gables, FL

Joy Glass
Business Standards and Systems Operations Group, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD

Marc D. Goldstone, Esq.
Of Counsel, Hoagland Longo, New Brunswick, NJ

Marcia Gonzales, Esq.
Privacy & Compliance Officer, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

Timothy H. Graham, Esq.
Privacy and FOIA Officer, Philadelphia VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA

Caroline Hamilton
President, RiskWatch, Inc., Annapolis, MD

Jody S. Hawkins
Information Security Officer, Children's Medical Center Dallas, Dallas, TX

Angel Hoffman, RN, MSN
Director of Corporate Compliance, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

J. Trevor Hughes
Executive Director, International Association of Privacy Professionals, York, ME

Sita Kapoor
Chief Information Officer, Infotech Global Inc., Somerset, NJ

Jillian Harrington Kuruc, MHA, CPC, CCSP
Clinical Technical Editor, Ingenix, Inc., Binghamton, NY

Jim Mechan
Senior Vice President, WebMD, Nashville, TN

Lisa S. Miller, Esq.
Chief Operating Officer, Washington Publishing Company, Rockville, MD

Susan A. Miller, Esq.
Director, Health Transformation Solutions, Webify Solutions, Inc., Co-chair, WEDI SNIP Security and Privacy Workgroup, Concord, MA

Toni Mueller, RN, MSN, CCRN
Associate Director for Perioperative Nursing, University of Iowa Health Care, Iowa City, IA

Stanley Nachimson
Senior Technical Advisor, Office of HIPAA Standards, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD

Kirk J. Nahra, Esq.
Partner, Wiley Rein & Fielding, Editor, IAPP Privacy Officers Advisor, Washington, DC

Uday O. Ali Pabrai, CISSP, CHSS
Chief Executive, HIPAA Academy, Warrenville, IL

John C. Parmigiani
Senior Vice President for Consulting Services, QuickCompliance, Inc., Former Director of Enterprise Standards, HCFA, Ellicott City, MD

Dan Petrosky
Founding Member, EDI Partner, Minneapolis, MN

Stephen L. Priest, FHIMSS, CPHIMS
Adjunct Professor, Healthcare Administration, Saint Joseph's College of Maine, Bedford, NH

Sonja Rajki, JD
HIPAA Coordinator, University of Iowa Health Care, Iowa City, IA

Nav Ranajee
Vice President of Business Strategy, ABN AMRO Services Company, Chicago, IL

Catherine Reynolds, RN, MSN CHP
Information Security Officer, Philadelphia VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA

Frank Ruelas, MBA
Director, Corporate Compliance, Gila River Health Care Corporation, Sacaton, AZ

Ravi Singh
Vice President, Pheonix Health Systems, Montgomery Village, MD

Paul T. Smith, Esq.
Partner and Co chair, HIPAA Task Force, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, San Francisco, CA

Susan S. Stuard CHP
Director, Regulatory Affairs, Greater New York Hospital Association, New York, NY

Robert M. Tennant
Senior Policy Advisor, Health Informatics, Medical Group Management Association, Washington, DC

Deborah J. Thoman, MA, RHIA, CHP
Compliance/Privacy Officer, University of Iowa Health Care, Iowa City, IA

Barry Thornton
Chief Technical Officer, Founder, ClearCube, Austin, TX

Andrew B. Wachler, Esq.
Principal, Wachler & Associates, PC, Royal Oak, MI

Maria T. Ward CHP
Senior Associate, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, Chair, DSMO Steering Committee, Co chair, HL7 Attachment SIG, Co chair, WEDI Attachment PAG, Chicago, IL

Rebecca L. Williams, RN, JD
Partner and Co-chair, HIPAA Task Force, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Chair, Preemption Sub-workgroup, Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, Seattle, WA

Cynthia (Cindy) F. Wisner, Esq.
Assistant General Counsel, Trinity Health, Chair, Inhouse Practice Group, American Health Lawyers Association, Novi, MI

Maria K. Woods, Esq.
Vice President Compliance and Regulatory Affairs, Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers of New York, New York, NY

Brian M. Wyatt, Esq. CHP
Senior Associate, Ropes & Gray LLP, New York, NY

Mariann Yeager, MBA
President, Emerson Strategic Group, Inc., Member, WEDI SNIP Executive and Steering Committee, Alexandria, VA

Melissa M. Zambri, Esq. CHP
Associate, Hiscock & Barclay, LLP, Albany, NY

Jonathan Zimmerman CHP
Vice President of Soarian(TM), Health Connections, Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Corp., Malvern, PA

Kepa Zubeldia, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Claredi, Former Chair AFEHCT, Former Member, NCVHS, Co Chair, WEDI Security Policy Advisory Group, Kaysville, UT