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Plan now to participate in "HIPAA for Healthcare Vendors," Wednesday, September 12, 2002, sponsored by HIPAA Bulletin for Management.

Register at http://www.healthresourcesonline.com/edu/hipvend.htm

Suppliers, your staff, and your products and services need to be HIPAA ready. Only covered entities must be HIPAA compliant by the federal deadlines. But, your service or solution must be able to help your healthcare client covered entity become HIPAA compliant.

Software vendors are not "covered entities" under HIPAA regulations, and, therefore, do not have to be compliant. However, to remain a viable part of the healthcare industry, your products need to enable the hospital or MCO to be compliant.

This year, HIPAA compliance initiatives are even more demanding for the healthcare industry, according to an exclusive survey by HIPAA Bulletin for Management. "Even with an early start, being able to understand the full scope (and we may not know yet) of what is going to be required was surprising," one executive told us. "This topic has been a hard one for folks to hear and understand."

That's the background and why this educational audio conference has been scheduled.

Discover what our panel of experts see as critical issue for vendors. Get their recommendations for your organization's work plan priorities now.

Discover what our panel of HIPAA experts is finding and get their latest thinking.

SPEAKERS:

* Jonathan Bogen, founder and CEO of HealthCIO Inc (www.healthcio.com)
* Steven J. Fox, partner, Pepper Hamilton LLP


Bogen is a nationally recognized expert in medical informatics and the use of technology in healthcare applications and services. Jon Bogen is founder and President of HealthCIO, Inc. a consulting firm specializing in the emerging world of information technology applications in healthcare. Bogen has held senior research and management positions with health plans, hospitals, and health departments. He is a member of the Internet Health Coalition, health care advisor to numerous companies, and past Program Chair of the New England Chapter of the HIMSS (Health Information Management Systems Society). He writes the high-tech column for Healthcare Review. Bogen is the author of the HIPAA IT Handbook: Strategies to Protect Health Information, published by HCPro.

For more information about HealthCIO Inc, log onto www.HealthCIO.com.


EDITORS – To arrange an interview with Jon Bogen regarding the topic of HIPAA or the IT vendor requirements in healthcare, please call or email (781)585-6002 or info@healthcio.com




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