PRESS RELEASE:
Seventh National HIPAA Summit, September 14-16, 2003, in Baltimore Features Transaction and Code Sets Implementation Strategies
PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Paul Tunnecliff
800-684-4549 phone
registration@hcconferences.com

WASHINGTON DC USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE (TM) -- JULY 8, 2003: The HIPAA Summit Conference Series announced the today the agenda and the faculty for the Seventh National HIPAA Summit, September 14 - 16, 2003, in Baltimore, MD. The Summit will feature practical strategies to implement the HIPAA transactions and code sets by the October 16, 2003 compliance date.

TRANSACTIONS AND CODE SETS IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES:

A Panel of National Experts Discuss What Must be Done to Meet the October 16, 2003 Deadline:

  • Gary A. Beatty, President, EC Integrity and Chair, X12N Insurance Subcommittee, Stewartville, MN
  • Richard Marks, Esq., Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Co Chair, Security and Privacy Sub-Working Group on HIPAA Business Associate Contracts and Chair, Security and Privacy Sub-Working Group on HIPAA Security Certification, WEDI, Washington, DC
  • Deborah Meisner, Vice President, Standards Implementation, WebMD, Nashville, TN
  • Lisa Miller, Chief Operating Officer, Washington Publishing Company, Rockville, MD
  • Wes Rishel, Vice President, Research Area Director, Gartner Healthcare Research, Alameda, CA
  • Maria T. Ward, Senior Associate, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, Chair, DSMO Steering Committee, Co Chair, HL7 Attachment SIG and Co Chair, WEDI Attachment PAG, Chicago, IL
  • Steven S. Lazarus, Ph.D., FHIMSS, President, Boundary Information Group, Immediate Past Chair, WEDI, Denver, CO (Moderator)
And the following special sessions:
  • Implementing the HIPAA Transactions and Code Sets
  • Will There Be an Industry-Wide Train Wreck on October 16, 2003?
  • The Language of HIPAA: Deciphering the Transactions and Codes Sets
  • Meta-Data Surrounding the HIPAA Transactions
  • Advanced Approaches to HIPAA Transactions Testing
  • HIPAA Transactions, the Coming Crash and a Proposal for Mitigation
  • Create a Real HIPAA ROI with Live Validation and Filtering
  • The Trains Will Keep Running - Why Current Health Care EDI will Continue to Function after 16 October 2003
  • Contingency Planning for HIPAA Transactions and Code Sets
  • HIPAA Claims: Will We Realize the Promised Savings?
OTHER FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Rosemary B. Abell
Director, National Healthcare Vertical Solutions, Keane, Inc., Co Chair, NCHICA Data Security Work Force, Durham, NC

Jared Adair (Invited)
Senior Official for HIPAA Implementation, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services, Baltimore, MD

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

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

Marti Arvin
Privacy Officer, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

Jeffrey S. Bardin, CISSP, CISM, NSA IAM
Principal and Chief Security Officer, Treadstone 71, Holliston, MA

Steve Bass
President and CEO, Washington Publishing Company, Rockville, MD

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

Leslie C. Bender, Esq.
General Counsel & Privacy Officer, roiWebEd Company, Principal, Leslie C. Bender, PA, Timonium, MD

John Bentivoglio, Esq.
Partner, Arnold & Porter, Former Special Counsel for Healthcare Fraud, Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Justice, Washington, DC

Jessica Blazer, Esq.
Counsel, Law & Regulatory Affairs, Aetna, Blue Bell, PA

Bill Bysinger Executive Director, Mercer Health Systems, Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA

Cathleen Casagrande
Director, Health Information & Privacy, Frederick Memorial Health System, Frederick, MD

Jim DiDonato
HIPAA Project Manager & Information Security Officer, Program Management Office, Baystate Health System, Springfield, MA

Scott Drinkard, MBA HIPAA Project Consultant, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Atlanta, GA

Michael Falzano
Senior Director/Chief Healthcare Compliance Officer, The TriZetto Group, Albany, NY

Glenn S. Fields
HIPAA and Healthcare Executive, National Healthcare Vertical Solutions Team, Keane, Inc., Ballston Lake, NY

David A. Feinberg, CDP
President, Rensis Corporation, Co Chair, X12 Insurance Subcommittee, HIPAA Implementation and Coordination Work Group, Seattle, WA

Robert A. Fisher
President and CEO, Foresight Corporation, Columbus, OH

Jason Froggatt, Esq.
Associate, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, Seattle, WA

Christian S. Genetski, Esq.
Partner, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Washington, DC

Alan S. Goldberg, JD, LLM Partner, Goulston & Storrs, Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland School of Law, Moderator, AHLA HIT Listserve, Washington, DC

Marne E. Gordan
Director, Regulatory Affairs, TruSecure Corporation, Herndon, VA

Tracie Hanna
Legislative Privacy Officer, American Republic Insurance Company, Des Moines, IA

W. Reece Hirsch, Esq.
Partner, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, San Francisco, CA

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

Drew Hunt, MEd, CISSP, MCT, MCSA, MCSE, CCNA
Network Security Analyst, Valley Medical Center, Renton, WA

Karl Ideman, CEO Pool Administrators, Inc., Wethersfield, CT

Thomas E. Jeffry, Esq.
Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, Los Angeles, CA

Patricia Johnston, CHP, FHIMSS
Director, Health Information Privacy and Security and Corporate Compliance, Texas Health Resources, Arlington, TX

Mike Jorgensen HIPAA Program Director, Wellpoint Health Plans, Atlanta, GA

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

Deborah Lelinski, MA
IDX Carecast tm Division Manager, HIPAA Product Marketing, IDX Corporation, Seattle, WA

Richard Marks, Esq. Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Co Chair, Security and Privacy Sub-Working Group on HIPAA Business Associate Contracts, Chair, Security and Privacy Sub-Working Group on HIPAA Security Certification, WEDI, Washington, DC

Emily McConkey, Esq.
Assistant General Counsel, American Republic Insurance Company, Des Moines, IA

Jim McHaney HIPAA and Technology Practice Leader, Milliman USA, Atlanta, GA

Deborah Meisner Vice President, Standards Implementation, WebMD, Nashville, TN

Debbie Mikels
Corporate Manager, Confidentiality, Partners HealthCare System, Wellesley, MA

Lisa Miller Chief Operating Officer, Washington Publishing Company, Rockville, MD

Marion Munagian, RN
Privacy Officer, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA

Joseph C. Nichols MD
Chief Medical Information Officer, Paladin Data Systems, Seattle, WA

Linda Nolan, RHIT, CPHQ
Assistant Privacy Officer, North Shore Medical Center, Partners HealthCare System, Salem, MA

Rachel Nosowsky, Esq.
Assistant General Counsel, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Keith Olenik Chief Privacy Officer, St. Luke's Health Systems, Kansas City, MO

Uday O. Ali Pabrai, CHSS, SCNA
President and CEO, HIPAA Academy, Clive, IA

John C. Parmigiani
National Practice Director, CTG HealthCare Solutions, Inc., Former Director of Enterprise Standards, HCFA, Cincinnati, OH

Kenneth Patterson
Information Security Manager, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Chair, Security Officers Forum, Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, Inc., Wellesley, MA

Wes Rishel Vice President, Research Area Director, Gartner Healthcare Research, Alameda, CA

April Robertson, MPA, RHIA, RHIT, CHP
Corporate Compliance Officer, ChartOne, Inc., President, California Health Information Association, San Jose, CA

Sunny Singh
Chief Executive Officer, EDIFECS, Redmond, WA

David J. Smith, Esq.
Senior Deputy County Counsel, Office of County Counsel, San Diego County Counsel, San Diego, CA

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

Michael B. Snyder, Esq.
Partner, Harris Beach LLP, Rochester, NY

Christine Stahlecker
TCS Principal Consultant, CTGHS' National HIPAA Practice, Co Chair, WEDI Strategic National Implementation Process (SNIP), Co Chair, Health Level 7 Claims Attachment SIG, Cincinnati, OH

Joyce Tichy, Esq.
Associate General Counsel, Vice President Risk Management, Chief Privacy Officer, WellChoice, Inc./Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, New York, NY

John Travis, CPA, MSA, CHFP
Director, Solution Management-Information Security and Privacy, Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO

Karen Trudel (Invited)
Advisor on Health Information Policy, Department of Health and Human Services, Baltimore, MD

Tom Walsh, CISSP
President, Tom Walsh Consulting, Former Information Security Manager, St. Luke's-Shawnee Mission Health System, Overland Park, KS

Bob Walters
President and CEO, Teros, Santa Clara, CA

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

Roberta M. Ward, Esq.
Privacy Officer and Senior Counsel, California Department of Health Services, Folsom, CA

Thomas Welch, CPP, CISSP Chief Executive Officer, Secure Enterprise Solutions, Parsippany, NJ

Rebecca L. Williams, RN, JD
Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, Chair, Preemption Sub-workgroup of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, Seattle, WA

Paul Zeltwanger Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Cincinnati, OH

Kepa Zubeldia, MD
President and CEO, Claredi Corp., Vice Chair, AFEHCT and WEDI Security Policy Advisory Group, Kaysville, UT

HIPAA SUMMIT SPONSORED BY TRAIN FOR HIPAA:

Train for HIPAA, http://www.trainforhipaa.com, offers the full continuum of HIPAA workforce training solutions. Train for HIPAA is an affiliate of the HIPAA Summit Conference Series, http://www.hipaasummit.com, HIPAA Colloquium at Harvard University, http://www.hipaacolloquium.com, and HIPAA Audioconferences, http://www.hipaaaudioconferences.com.

HIPAA SUMMIT EXHIBIT & SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION:

For sponsorship and exhibit information contact: Joni Lipson, Exhibit Manager, 215-599-6626 phone, 215-545-8107 fax, joni.lipson@rmpinc.com.

HIPAA SUMMIT REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

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