Course Title:  Avoid the Million Dollar Mistake – HIPAA Security Compliance: Protecting Your Patients, Your Practice, And Yourself 

Presenter: Dr. Bijan Anvar 

Date:  March 31, 2017 (Friday) 

Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST 

Location:  QCDS Headquarters, 86-90 188th Street, Jamaica NY 

Credits: 3 

Meals: Light Breakfast

 

Course Description:

The New York State Dental Association (NYSDA) is sponsoring a 3-hour HIPAA Security Compliance course developed by NYSDA’s Information Technology Committee. The course and the accompanying NYSDA HIPAA Security Compliance Manual provide a practical guide for dentists and their office team. NYSDA designates this course for three (3) continuing education credit hours.

The course explains the specific requirements associated with safeguarding, storing and transmitting electronically maintained information to protect dentists from potential prosecution and sanctions. The goal is to educate the dental team in a common sense, step-by-step way on how to comply with these complex regulations and avoid punitive sanctions. Course attendees will be able to:

 

• Securely store, protect, share and transmit electronic health information
• Comply with current federal HIPAA security regulations

• Implement strategies to reduce the risks associated with audits, financial penalties and censure

 

The course includes:

• A step-by-step, practical guide to HIPAA security compliance
• Answers to frequently asked questions about the maintenance and transmission of protected patient information, including:
  • What specifically is required?
  • Who needs a password? How do you design a safe password?
  • Should patients have access to the dental office’s Wi-Fi?
  • What is encryption? Is it required?
  • Can x-rays be transmitted via email? To patients? To other doctors?
  • Is there a cost associated with secure communication?
  • How can a dental practice protect itself from a security breach? What must a practice do if its computers are breached?
  • Are dental laboratories and cleaning services required to sign Business Associate Agreements?

The most significant benefit is that each dental practice attending will receive the NYSDA HIPAA Security Regulation Compliance Manual and step-by-step guidance for completing the necessary forms and checklists contained within the Manual. Because the HIPAA security regulations include staff training requirements, dentists are encouraged to bring a member of their office team to the course. Registration is limited; register early to ensure your attendance. There will be no on-site registration for this course.

The New York State Dental Association is an ADA CERP recognized provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, not does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

The views expressed by program clinicians do not represent the views or reflect an endorsement or approval by the New York State Dental Association. Unless explicitly stated, featured clinicians do not possess any financial interests of affiliations that could pose a conflict of interest to the program. 

 

Presenter Biography:

Dr. Bijan Anvar received his D.D.S. degree and graduated with honors in oral surgery from the New York University College of Dentistry in 1996. He is a past-president of the Queens County Dental Society, as well as past-president of the Institute for Continuing Dental Education. He is a past-chair of the New York State Dental Association’s Council on Dental Practice and has served on NYSDA’s Information Technology Committee since 2011. He is a graduate of the American Dental Association’s Institute for Diversity in Leadership and is on the ADA Committee for the Institute for Diversity in Leadership.

Dr. Anvar has lectured on oral cancer, e-prescribing, data protection and security, HIPAA and other technology related topics. Most recently, Dr. Anvar has been lecturing for the ADA’s Success Speaker Corps.

 

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