HIPAA Basics: What Every Provider Should Know
Join Us Virtually
Event Details
Dive into the world of HIPAA rules and regulations and learn how to prevent violations and errors. This is a great program for training and annual review education.
Objectives:
- Define the basic outline of the administrative simplification rules.
- Recognize basic terms and concepts associated with the HIPAA privacy, security, and breach
notification regulations. - Reevaluate your compliance process in relation to interpretation of guidelines.
- Identify new rules and regulations from the federal government, such as the Information
Blocking Rule that took effect April 2021.
Dean McConnell is currently Deputy General Counsel at COPIC, a medical professional liability company in Denver, Colorado. Before coming to COPIC, Mr. McConnell was a shareholder in the law firm of Kennedy Childs, practicing in the area of health law, insurance and business counseling from 1989 to 2013. He was born in Denver, Colorado and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and his Juris Doctorate degree at the University of Denver.
His private practice primarily involved representation and counseling of health care providers and entities on a wide variety of legal issues including entity organization and formation; sale and dissolution; employment and other contracts and policies; regulatory, HIPAA, and antitrust compliance; professional review, privileging and credentialing issues; billing problems including fraud and abuse issues; and a variety of other health care business issues.
Mr. McConnell is licensed to practice in the United States Supreme Court, the First and Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, the District Court for the District of Colorado, and all Colorado County, District, and Appellate courts.