LeadingAge Ohio 2012 Annual Conference

Vorys partner Lisa Pierce Reisz participated in the LeadingAge Ohio 2012 Annual Conference in August 29.

Ms. Reisz presented, Health Information Privacy Challenges: Understanding HIPAA Compliance After HITECH, and discussed:

• Ongoing obligations to develop and maintain meaningful HIPAA policies and procedures that accurately reflect an organization’s ongoing efforts to protect and safeguard protected health information
• The importance of developing an effective health information data breach response plan
• Business and legal tensions which exist in business associate relationships and review the key negotiating points in business associate agreements after HITECH