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Conference on Security and Privacy Approaches
for Academic Medical Centers

  • Come hear over 40 academic medical center privacy and security leaders from across the nation discuss their successes and challenges in complying HIPAA and satisfying other privacy and security needs.
  • Sponsored by:
      North Carolina Healthcare Information
      Association of American Medical Colleges
      Duke University Health System
      University of Pennsylvania
      University of Texas Health Sciences Center
      Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
      Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange
  • June 28-30, 2004
  • Sheraton Imperial Hotel, Durham, NC
  • http://nchica.org/Activities/AMC/Intro.htm

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE(TM) -- MAY 26, 2004: The North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance (NCHICA) invites you to join leaders in privacy and security from academic medical centers and teaching hospitals on June 28-30, 2004 to discuss "Security and Privacy Approaches for Academic Medical Centers." The agenda is packed with 4 plenary sessions and 20 sessions in 3 tracks focused on Administration, Clinical Practice and Research & Education. Each session will be led by a panel of 2-4 leaders in privacy and security from AMCs across the country presenting on their successes and challenges.

YOU CAN:

  • Compare strategies for implementing the HIPAA Security Rule
  • Determine how your Privacy compliance program compares to that of your peers at other AMCs
  • Assess the status and quality of your HIPAA compliance plans
  • Discuss developing norms for operating in compliance with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules
  • Identify resources for HIPAA compliance

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

  • Compliance Officers
  • Privacy and Security Officials
  • IS/IT Directors
  • Deans of Schools of Medicine
  • IRB Chairs
  • CIOs
  • Medical Directors
  • Physicians
  • Attorneys
  • Anyone involved in security and privacy at AMCs
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT ENDS JUNE 1, 2004:

Click here to register.

SPEAKERS AT THE CONFERENCE ARE FROM THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS:
  • Duke University
  • Indiana University
  • Loyola University
  • Mayo Clinic
  • Medical University of South Carolina
  • Quintiles Transnational Corp.
  • Stanford University
  • University of California
  • University of Colorado
  • University of Maryland
  • University of Miami
  • University of Missouri
  • University of North Carolina
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Rochester
  • University of Wisconsin at Madison
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Wake Forest University
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