WASHINGTON DC USA - HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE(tm) - JUNE 4, 2003: Healthcare Intelligence Network announced today the scheduling of an audioconference entitled "Accounting of Disclosures: Strategies to Efficiently and Effectively Meet HIPAA Requirements" to be held on Wednesday, June 18th, 2003 from 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Eastern time. Now that the HIPAA Privacy deadline has passed, covered entities are addressing one of the most significant challenges associated with HIPAA -- providing an accounting of disclosures of protected health information for as far back as six years. The Office of Civil Rights may have a different version of "treatment," "payment," and "operations" than what you have established. To ensure that you have the proper processes in place to address the accounting of disclosures challenges, join us on June 18th at 1:30 pm for a 90-minute audio-conference, "Accounting of Disclosures: Strategies to Efficiently and Effectively Meet HIPAA Requirements."

• Stephen W. Bernstein, partner, Health Law Department of McDermott, Will & Emery's Boston office and co-chair of the firm's HIPAA Practice Group and the Firm's Health Ventures Group
• Rebecca Buegel, RHIA, Privacy Officer/Director of Health Information Management at Casa Grande Regional Medical Center
• Pat Van Dyke, Director of Privacy, Security and HIPAA at ODS Health Plans

• What the Office of Civil Rights expects from healthcare organizations
• How to manage the accounting of disclosure process
• Policies and procedures for accounting of disclosures
• What is actually "happening in the trenches"
• Addressing mandatory reporting requirements
• Accounting of disclosure "do's" & "don'ts"
• Future issues that you will need to address

This program was designed especially for privacy officers, HIPAA project managers, compliance officers, CEOs, physician leaders nursing managers, internal auditors and attorneys and consultants.

Program materials will be provided approximately one week before the program date via e-mail with PDF links.

$189 for live audioconference and program materials. *
$189 for a CD-ROM of the audioconference and program materials. *
$283 for live audioconference, CD-ROM and program materials. *

• No special equipment is needed. A number will be provided to dial to access the call.
• The Conference will be approximately 90 minutes, with about 30 minutes for a Question-and- Answer period.
• You will receive an email a week prior to the conference with instructions on how to dial into the Conference and the conference materials via a PDF download link.
• The Conference takes place on Eastern Daylight Time.

• Register online at: http://www.hin.com/cgi-local/link/news/pl.cgi?aodpg
• Fill out the registration form below and e-mail to: info@hin.com
• Call: 888-446-3530
• Fax registration form to: 732-292-3073
• Mail registration to: Healthcare Intelligence Network, PO Box 1442, Wall, NJ 07719-1442