Welcome and Opening Remarks

Privacy Officer Panel: Privacy Breaches & the Lessons They Offer Alicia Bowers, SVP and Chief Privacy and Compliance Officer , Atrium Health Frank Riccardi, Vice President, Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer, Cone Health Elizabeth Willis, Privacy Officer, Roper St. Francis Carrie Cavanaugh, Assistant Vice President, Atrium Health

• Critical initial steps when a breach is suspected/confirmed
• Proactive planning and networking strategies to positively impact your organization
• How to tailor breach communications to keep employees, board members, patients/potential patients and donors informed

Break

OCR HIPAA Right to Access Initiative and Information Blocking Rule Elizabeth Litten, Partner and Chief Privacy and HIPAA Security Officer, Fox Rothschild LLP Theresa Morton, Project Director, Promoting Interoperability, Cone Health

• Avoid investigations and penalties for failure to comply with HIPAA individual access rights requirements
• Prepare for compliance with the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) new rule prohibiting information blocking and facilitating individual access via apps
• Understand the potential impact of the HIPAA proposed rule that will change how you deal with access requests and authorizations

Break

Post-Acute Care Hot Topics Pamela Duncan, Chief Compliance Officer, Agape Care SC

• Significant Developments / shifts in the Regulatory Environment
• The impact of COVID-19 and its Subsequent Waivers on Post-Acute Care
• Celebrating Corporate Compliance and Ethics Week in Post-Acute Settings

Mid-Conference Break

Networking and Discussion (optional) Connect with your fellow attendees and enjoy a free-flowing conversation about what stood out during the sessions or a compliance challenge you want feedback on. The objective here is to enable conference participants to network with and learn from each other and help overcome the isolation of the past months. This optional networking event will be held on Zoom and participants may choose to be on camera.

Compliance’s Role in Integration Planning Lee Decker, Chief Compliance Officer, Novant Health Kelly Patterson, Senior Director, Corporate Compliance, Novant Health

• Understand and begin to implement the compliance function’s integration into the merger or acquisition
• Identify risks and define processes needed to mitigate risks with clinic integration
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with integration of EMR and other technology

Break

The Compliance Cure: Partner with a Physician Advisor Erin Rydell, Director of Corporate Compliance , Atrium Health Brian Moore, Physician Advisor Services, Atrium Health Physician Advisor Services

• Discuss the evolving role of Physician Advisors and their involvement in hospital compliance
• Discuss ways to establish the Physician Advisor partnership in any healthcare setting
• Explore opportunities for Compliance and Physician Advisor partnerships

Break

An Ounce of Prevention: Effective Strategies for Minimizing Whistleblower Risks Sandra Miller, Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP

• Information that assists in recognizing and analyzing potential whistleblower and qui tam situations
• Strategies and early interventions that are useful in reducing the chance that compliance issues will become qui tam cases
• An understanding of the protections afforded whistleblowers under federal statutes and regulations and potential damage awards for retaliatory actions
• Information on how to deal with an employed whistleblower effectively to avoid increasing risk to the organization both in terms of resolution with the government and damages sought by the whistleblower for retaliation