Learn and Earn Webinar Series

We’ve made it a priority to help our AHIMA partners keep their members engaged and educated as they adapt to a virtual conference space. We worked with them, and would love to work with you, to create a program that fits your members’ needs and helps them earn CEU credits. Explore webinar topics below and contact us if you are interested in exploring a personalized virtual education solution.

OCR Update on HIPAA Policy and Enforcement

Timothy Noonan, Deputy Director for Health Information Privacy at the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), highlights recent COVID-19 and HIPAA-related bulletins, reinforces the importance of advancing the Individual Right of Access and discusses OCR’s Right of Access Initiative.

1 CEU Credit: Information Protection: Access, Disclosure, Archival, Privacy and Security

COVID-19 Response: Emerging Best Practices for Health Information Disclosure Management

Health information access and disclosure management practices are impacted by the urgent need to distance workers, modify access processes, and innovate to maintain and improve services. This webinar brings together the lessons being learned in real-time by health systems across the country.

1 CEU Credit: Organizational Management and Leadership

Turning Up the Heat! HHS Initiates Access Enforcement

This timely webinar will help participants understand HHS’ intent in using its enforcement authority in matters pertaining to release of information. They will learn about the elements of this first enforcement action and the compliance lessons it offers for all health systems.

1 CEU Credit: Organizational Management and Leadership

Northwell Health Physician Partners: Automating Disclosure Management in an Ambulatory Setting

This webinar will focus on key compliance and business drivers for standardizing release of information practices and procedures across physician practices that are part of an ambulatory or integrated health delivery system.

1 CEU Credit: Information Protection: Access, Disclosure, Archival, Privacy and Security

Best Practices in Ambulatory Release of Information

This webinar focuses on the legal, compliance and business rationale for improving ROI in the ambulatory setting. Practical assessment criteria will be provided to guide practice managers, corporate and ambulatory HIM managers, privacy and compliance officers in assessing current procedures.

1 CEU Credit: Information Protection: Access, Disclosure, Archival, Privacy and Security

Mitigating the Confidentiality, Privacy, and Security Risks Associated with PHI Release at an Enterprise Level

Making the shift to a culture of absolute accountability when releasing patient information is more important than ever as health systems face increasing scrutiny over how PHI is managed across the enterprise. Keynote speakers will explore the risks associated with inconsistent information release practices commonly found across health systems and the role that innovative technology and advanced workflow solutions play in mitigating that risk.

1 CEU Credit: Information Protection: Access, Disclosure, Archival, Privacy and Security

Integrity, Connection, Access: A Framework for the Future

Dr. Harris, AHIMA’s CEO, discusses the environmental trends that have informed the impact areas (integrity, connection, access). She also highlights some of the plans for 2020/21 and desired outcomes for HIM professionals and AHIMA and the ways in which the direction benefits the health system and those it serves.

1 CEU Credit: Organizational Management and Leadership

COVID-19 Response: Emerging Best Practices for Health Information Disclosure Management – Part 2

This webinar focuses on health information access and disclosure management practices, including release of information, and how they are impacted by the urgent need to distance workers, modify access processes, and innovate to maintain and improve services. Participants will learn about steps they should be taking now and what risks they should be planning for to ensure workforce and level of service during a time of extreme disruption.

1 CEU Credit: Organizational Management and Leadership

Release of Patient Information: Increased Focus on Information Integrity

Releasing protected information for continuity of care, patient engagement, payment and other purposes carries special obligations to ensure that the information is dependable and trustworthy. Learn how to ensure the integrity of the information being released.

1 CEU Credit: Organizational Management and Leadership

There’s an App for That! Connecting People with their Health Information

In this webinar, participants will learn from the firsthand experience of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital how the Verisma Request App is transforming their release of health information practices. This webinar will also highlight essential technical and functionality app requirements that HIM, CIO and Compliance managers should assess when considering use of mobile tools.

1 CEU Credit: Organizational Management and Leadership

Transforming Patient Access to Health Information: How HIM at NCH Healthcare System is Moving the Needle in Patient Satisfaction

Health systems are facing ever-growing challenges in engaging patients in the management of their health information. HIM can play an active role in removing common barriers by putting in place initiatives within their organizations for advancing patient access.

1 CEU Credit: Organizational Management and Leadership

Advancing Enterprise Disclosure Management

This webinar will focus on the legal, compliance and business case rationale for taking an enterprise-wide, unified approach to managing the disclosure of patient information. Keynote speakers will engage attendees in considering the benefits, challenges and best practice approaches to moving from siloed to uniform disclosure management across the healthcare enterprise.

1 CEU Credit: Organizational Management and Leadership