Kelly McLendon is the co-founder of CompliancePro Solutions and SVP for Compliance and Regulatory Affairs at Genzeon. He is an accomplished author, thought leader, and industry expert in HIPAA privacy and security, Meaningful Use, legal health records, HIM operations, electronic document management and EHRs.
Kelly has been actively involved with AHIMA and its local affiliates, garnering multiple awards: the AHIMA Triumph Award in Innovation in 2015, the FHIMA Distinguished Member Award in 2008, and the AHIMA Visionary Award in 2003. He recently actively participated on the EHI Task Force, culminating in the report, “Defining EHI and the Designated Record Set in an Electronic World.”
The Interoperability of Everything: How the Cures Act is Regulating the Exchange of Electronic Health
With major Final Rules for the Cures Act being implemented, including new references to AI, we are seeing varying levels of knowledge and stages of readiness among healthcare provider sites, insurance companies, health plans and related entities across the healthcare spectrum. The government’s goal is to simultaneously open access to historically protected health information and ensure privacy and security HIPAA compliance. However, this expansion of access and automation is complex. Although it improves patient access, it dramatically complicates things for record management and compliance...Read more professions. Some of the APIs, FHIR interfaces, and EHI Exports due are integrated into patient portals while others are utilized differently. Additionally, although the Cures Act rules are in place, enforcement has not begun, and many organizations have yet to implement the basic Cures Act requirements.
The path the Cures Act rules create will increase the risk of penalties, fines and bad PR for healthcare organizations. Therefore, healthcare professionals need to be adequately prepared for and updated on the details of these measures to ensure they understand and are able to manage them in a compliant manner.
Join Kelly McLendon and Kristen Borth on Tuesday, February 27th from 1pm-2pm (EST) as they deliver an eye-opening discussion on the rapidly changing regulatory and site implementation information about API’s, FHIR interfaces, interoperability and information blocking of health systems and information. Less...
Learning Objectives
- Explain ONC Information Blocking Part 171 and CMS Interoperability and Patient Access rules, practice advice and actual site practices about implementation for Providers, including the new final rule addressing EHR certification bodies and other actors, such as providers and payers.
- Align the Cures Act and HIPAA requirements to find a common set of best practices which is required to comply with both laws.
- Discuss the common issues relating to Cures Act implementation encountered to date, along with how EHRs are helping to manage the transition to the Cures Act.
- Apply emerging best practices and enforcement of Info Blocking incidents, including fines and penalties which have been published.
Learning Levels
- HIPAA Compliance
- External Forces
- Privacy and Security
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Live Interactive Webinar
01:00 PM EST - 02:00 PM EST
EARN 1 CE Credit Hours
About the speakers
Kelly McLendon, RHIA, CHPS
Kristen Borth, MS, RHIA
Chief Operations Officer, Primeau Consulting Group
Kristen Borth is a health information and informatics professional with over 10 years of experience in consulting in acute and ambulatory services. While transitioning from private to public sector consulting, she has always stayed in the realm of Health Information Management and Health Informatics. This has helped to broaden her foundational knowledge regarding the crossover and similarities in both arenas. Her focus over the last couple of years has been in SDOH and the 21st Century Cures Act requirements.
Kristen has a bachelor’s and graduate degree from Loma Linda University in health information and informatics. She has three children (two boys and a girl), a Great Dane and Corgi, a cat, and a wonderfully supportive husband to keep her life outside of work fun and busy. She loves to bake and cook. Cycling and running are her stress relievers, and she has just recently moved back to her home state of Arkansas.
Kristen has a bachelor’s and graduate degree from Loma Linda University in health information and informatics. She has three children (two boys and a girl), a Great Dane and Corgi, a cat, and a wonderfully supportive husband to keep her life outside of work fun and busy. She loves to bake and cook. Cycling and running are her stress relievers, and she has just recently moved back to her home state of Arkansas.
CE Information - Earn 1 CE Credit Hour including
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