AFEHCT's Washington
Policy Forum
November 20 & 21,
2003
In Conjunction with
the WEDI Meeting
At
the
Capital
Hilton
1001 16th & K St.
NW
Washington, DC
20036
202-393-1000
PRESS RELEASE:
Donald Bechtel
Chief Privacy
Officer, HDX / Siemens
Chair,
AFEHCT
WASHINGTON DC - HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE (TM) - NOVEMBER 7, 2003:
This meeting takes
place 35 days after the TCS compliance
date. In this "legacy" period, in those 35
days, the HIPAA community will be "test driving"
or conducting a "shakedown cruise" of the new
HIPAA environment. Software vendors,
clearinghouses, providers, payers and other
covered entities will have faced real-live
questions and issues about "legacy" and
implementation.
This meeting will be the
first opportunity for vendors and clearinghouses
and others in the HIPAA community to come
together. Your participation in this meeting
creates possibilities for you, your colleagues,
and the vendor community as a whole.
- Find out for yourself, from the
speakers AFEHCT has assembled and your fellow
attendees, what kinds problems are surfacing in
"legacy", in complying with the TCS standards.
- Find out how others are coping
with the problems they are facing.
- Find out what recommendations are
being made for policy "fixes" to the problems
that are being encountered.
- Better yet, you tell us and CMS
what the policy fixes ought to
be.
The sessions that
AFEHCT offers will address
The "Here and Now":
- Outstanding HIPAA
Implementation Issues - An Open Discussion
- Security Issues
- Clearinghouse Guidance - An
Update on the AFEHCT WEDI-SNIP White
Paper
- (Vendors and Members Only)
Closed Door Session, for Industry Vendors
(member and non-member) and other AFEHCT
members.
This will be an
opportunity for attendee vendors to raise issues
that they believe need to be addressed. Anything
is fair game:
aljksd fHIPAA related
afddsaMedicare related
afddsaMedicaid related
asfddsClinical Issues
adfdfa Legislative
issues
afdafd What AFEHCT should be doing to help
you:
assdfdsfdsfdsf ff -More meetings
afdsfsafdsfdf ffff -Audio conferences
afdasfdfsfdsff fff -Implementation
issues
adfdfsafdsfffff ff -Congressional / HHS
issues
The Near
Term
- Putting Standards to Work -
Added Value Through Innovation.
- What's coming from Capital Hill
- Current and Future Legislation that will
affect the health care IT
community
Long Term
Future
- The Future of Healthcare
Information Systems - HIPAA and
Beyond
Corporate
visionaries from three of healthcare's
leading clearinghouses and information
management systems will
share their predictions and insights on the years
ahead.
AFEHCT Planning for
2004
- What should be the vendor
community's advocacy agenda for 2004?
- What problems should the vendor
community be working on with CMS, Medicare and /
or Medicaid?
- Are there problems with HIPAA,
Medicare or Medicaid the vendor community should
be telling Congress about?
AFEHCT will review
their advocacy and other plans with
attendees
If you have any
questions, comments or recommendations with
respect to the agenda or the meeting, please
contact Tom Gilligan at afehct@aol.org or 202 244
6450
If there are others in
your firm / company or other colleagues in the
industry that you believe might benefit from this
program, please share this document with
them.
Registration
Information
Also Attending
WEDI:
AFEHCT Members
$425
Non Members
$475
Federal State Government
$100
AFEHCT
only:
AFEHCT Members
$475
Non Members
$525
Federal State Government
$125
Onsite Registration: $575
"Special Thank
Yous" should go to
- Marcallee Jackson, Director,
Healthcare Solutions, Edifecs and Chair of
AFEHCT's Education Committee,
- Don Bechtel, Chief Privacy
Officer, HDX / Siemens and AFEHCT
Chair
for their tremendous,
talented, and tireless efforts with respect to
putting on this upcoming AFEHCT Washington Policy
Forum and the Audiocast: "Avoid the HIPAA Train
Wreck" held on October 8, 2003
Thanks also to Jim
Schuping and Kristin Becker of WEDI
for
their substantial and
invaluable support in putting on this joint
meeting.
