The new
Economic Stimulus legislation, formally known as The American
Recovery and Re-investment Act (ARRA) is broad, comprehensive and
complex in healthcare impacts. There are EHR incentives, HIPAA
strengthening and Education expansion along with funding for
Medicare, Medicaid, COBRA extension as well as other directives. The
Act makes clear that although many of the regulations and directives
within ARRA do not take effect for months or years that the time is
now to begin learning and preparing for the coming changes this
legislation fosters. HIM professionals have a rare opportunity to
become leaders within their organizations and to get more deeply
involved in the leadership of electronic health record management.
This teleconference will provide an overview of
the Act from an HIM perspective. Topics include:
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HIPAA expansion of Accounting of Disclosures
(AOD), Business Associate Agreements (BAA) and out to Health
Information Exchanges (HIEs) and Personal Health Records (PHR)
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EHR adoption and incentive payments to
hospitals and physicians are detailed as well as increased
monies for education of HIM and IT professionals will all be
discussed.
Please dial into this important conference to
get a well founded HIM view of ARRA and the opportunities for
HIM growth it contains.
CE: 1
Cost: $40.00
Within two business days of
payment, you will receive access instructions to download the audio
conference, handouts, online evaluation, and a one-hour CE
certificate.
Your computer must have a sound card,
speakers, and an audio player such as
Real Player or
Windows Media Player.
To view or print PDF files, you will need a copy of
Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded free
of charge from Adobe.
About the Speaker:
Kelly McLendon, RHIA is
President of
Health Information Xperts, a consultancy specializing in HIM, record
management, electronic document management, legal and electronic health
records. Kelly is an accomplished speaker, author and a 30 year AHIMA
member.
Kelly was recently awarded the
Florida Health Information Association’s (FHIMA) highest honor, Distinguished Member’
for 2008. He joins a list of HIM luminaries
from Florida who have volunteered extensive time and knowledge for both
FHIMA and its parent organization American Health Information
Association (AHIMA). He was awarded the AHIMA Visionary Award in 2003.
Kelly chaired the FHIMA
Legislative Committee for both 2007 and 2008 which was responsible for a
complete rewrite of the FHIMA Legal Manual. He has a long list of
activities and posts held within FHIMA including being a former member
of the Board of Directors.
