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Live Webinar Making Revisions to Medical Records: How to properly make changes to records and avoid penalties and fines
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2011 Duration: 90 Minutes Location: Online Time: 10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT Instructor: Jim Sheldon-Dean Price: $195.00 (for one participant)
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Webinar Overview:
This teleconference will enable health information professionals to know how to respond to requests to revise closed records, to know what is required for individual rights under HIPAA, and to know what belongs in any organizations procedures for revising medical records.
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Attendees will also learn about issues pertaining to electronic records and revisions, including the HIPAA Security Rule and recent amendments to HIPAA, regional health information organizations, and other health information communication and storage portals. We'll talk about the reasons for making changes, including the receipt of new information, changes in interpretations, or patient requests. And when revising records, it's important to know the limits. We will discuss who may make revisions and reasonable time frames for doing so, as well as limitations imposed by HIPAA. We'll go through the process required by HIPAA for allowing individuals to request the amendment of their medical records. The definition of amending, the required steps to go through under HIPAA, and how to handle disputed facts are all areas that need to be defined in your policies so that you can show your compliance in the event of a complaint or audit.
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Medical records contain some of the most sensitive and personal information that exists about individuals in modern society, and some records may need revision because of new information received or because of the requests of individuals to correct or modify existing information, but making modifications improperly can lead to health issues for patients and legal issues for the practice.

Find out why it may be necessary to make changes to medical records, and why it may or may not be a good idea. Learn what to do if new information is received, or if the provider or the patient wants to see changes in the record. Learn about some of the limits that should be placed on any revisions, such as who can request revisions, what are the time limits on revisions, and when revisions should not be allowed at all. Find out about the required policies and process for individuals to request revisions to records under HIPAA. Learn how to deal with those times when an individual wants to see a change in his or her record and you don't agree with the change. See what policies and procedures need to be in place to define your complete record revision process, including identification of revisions, notification of revisions, and prohibition of revisions. Learn about the special issues that electronic medical records present, and how the HIPAA Security Rule can be part of your revision control process. Find out what upcoming changes are in store for HIPAA that impact revisions to medical records.

Do you know what the effects are of changing information that may have been shared with others and relied upon for making decisions about individuals? Are you sure those records aren't the subject of a lawsuit and changing them won't result in an adverse judgment? When is it appropriate to make revisions, how and under what circumstances, and at whose request? Have you reviewed your records revision policies recently to see if they're up to date? Has your staff been trained to know what policies apply and how to respond to patient inquiries about making changes to records? Do you know what policies will need to be changed to meet the upcoming HIPAA requirements going into effect in 2012? Already there are new, increased penalties for HIPAA violations and a new auditing process being developed so that HIPAA covered entities will be subject to reviews by the US Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil

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Rights even if no one files a complaint. If you havent done whats required under HIPAA, you could be liable for willful neglect penalties that begin at $10,000 minimum and go up from there. You need to protect the integrity of the medical record as well as permit appropriate amendments with documented policies and procedures, as well as documentation of any actions taken pursuant to your policies and procedures.

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Instructor Profile
Jim Sheldon-Dean is the founder and director of compliance services at Lewis Creek

Jim Sheldon-Dean
Director of

Systems, LLC, a Vermont-based consulting firm founded in 1982, providing information privacy and security regulatory compliance services to health care firms and businesses throughout the Northeast and nationally. Sheldon-Deans firm provides a

Compliance Services,

variety of advisory, training, assessment, policy development, project management and mitigation services for a number of health care providers, businesses, universities, Lewis Creek Systems, small and large hospitals, urban and rural mental health and social service agencies, LLC health insurance plans and health care business associates. He serves on the HIMSS Information Systems Security Workgroup, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange Privacy and Security Workgroup, and co-chairs the WEDI HIPAA Updates sub-workgroup. more... TOP

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