We are excited to announce that we will be sponsoring HiTech Answers’s HIPAA Chat for January! These monthly Q&A style chats discuss the latest trends and topics impacting HIPAA, and will provide answers.

When: Thursday, January 19, 2017
Time: 12:30 PM EST/9:30 AM PST
Duration: 1 hour
Speaker: David Harlow, JD MPH

This free event will explore:

  • The implications of HIPAA’s first settlement which was based on Presence Health’s untimely reporting of a protected health information (PHI) breach that happened in 2013.
  • Emory Healthcare’s recent ransomware attack that compromised the data of 200,000 patients.
  • Best practices that you can put into action in 2017 to ensure compliance. For more information or to register for this event, click here.

David Harlow, JD MPH, is a health care lawyer and consultant with over twenty-five years of public and private sector experience, with a unique perspective on legal, policy and business issues facing the health care community. His focus is on digital health law and policy, starting with HIPAA compliance and state law health care data privacy and security planning and compliance for covered entities and business associates, including health care providers, big data analytics shops and health app developers. He is a health care generalist, working with health care providers, vendors and payors of all shapes and sizes that rely on him to help them navigate the maze of regulatory and business issues facing them on a daily basis.