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November 8, 2002 - Agenda

8:30 - 8:45 - Registration, coffee and networking

8:45 - 9:00 - Part I: Welcome, Introductions and Agenda Review (by Co-Chair)

• Karen G. Grant, RHIA, Chief Privacy Officer, Partners Healthcare System

9:00 - 9:45 - Part II: Designated Record Sets - Implementation Approaches

• Nancy Schwartz, Privacy Officer, Fallon Community Health Plan

  • Slides

  • Designated Record Set Policy (PDF)

  Reactors:

  • Provider Privacy Officers

9:45 - 10:15 - Part III: Updates - other Regional activities

1. Office of Civil Rights - Scott Edmiston, OCR

2. Boston Bar Association: HIPAA/State Law Task Force - Robin Johnson

3. Commonwealth of Mass. HIPAA Program Management Office - Lori Allan

   • Slides

4. Health Plan Privacy Officers Sub-Group - Deb Fiumedora, Neighborhood Health Plan

5. Provider Privacy Officers Sub-Group - Debbie Mikels, Corporate Manager,Confidentiality, Partners Healthcare System

6. New England HIPAA Work Group - Dave Szabo, Co-Chair

7. Privacy Resource Center Web Site - Lydia Ewing, Mass. Health Data Consortium

10:15 - 10:30 - Meeting break

10:30 - 11:30 - Part IV: Open Discussions
Q & A: "Asking each other where we are" (with only 5 months left until April) regarding Interpreting policies, training employees, Business Associate agreements, Change Management, etc, etc, etc...

1. Health Plans

   • Nancy Schwartz, Fallon Community Health Plan

   • Deb Fiumedora, Neighborhood Health Plan

2. Hospitals

   • Leon Goldman, CareGroup

   • Karen Grant, Partners Healthcare System

   • Barbara McCarthy, Northeast Hospitals

3. Physician Group

   • Betsy Keener, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates

11:30 - 11:45 - Part V: Announcements

• Proporsed Calendar for 2003

• Fees for non-members in 2003

• Privacy Vendor Fair - November 2003

• Other?

11:45 - 12:00 - Part VI: Topics for Next Meeting

12:00 - Adjourn