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Complex, Crazy, and Challenging Privacy Issues

Marti Arvin, Executive Advisor, CynergisTek, Inc.

  • Crazy overlapping issues between the Information Blocking Rule and the HIPAA Privacy Rule
  • Challenge of ensuring end users understand proper accesses, uses and disclosures of health information
  • Complex issues with the proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule

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How the Practice of Medicine Has Changed: Review and Verify 2021 E&M Changes and Telehealth Amidst a Pandemic

Jeanine D. Botkin, Senior Compliance Auditor, University of Virginia Physicians Group

  • Understand the changes underway before the start of the COVID pandemic and how they were accelerated as part of the response to the pandemic
  • Differentiate between the requirements for documentation based on the coding guidelines 
  • Prepare for continued change as the value of non-face-to-face interactions is recognized in policy

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Cybersecurity in Healthcare

Benjamin Gilbert, Cybersecurity Advisor, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

  • Learn about the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and its mission to reduce risk to our Nation’s critical infrastructure
  • Understand the cyber threat landscape within the healthcare sector, and the mechanics of a cyber attack
  • Discuss best practices and security measures healthcare organizations can adopt to better protect themselves, and a brief overview on no-cost cybersecurity resources available to healthcare industry and other critical infrastructure that can help strengthen their cybersecurity posture

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The Role of Health Equity in Virginia’s Pandemic Response

Vanessa Walker Harris, Secretary of Health and Human Resources, Office of Governor Ralph S. Northam 
Janice Underwood, Ph.D, Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, Office of Governor Ralph S. Northam

  • Differentiate between equality and equity
  • Understand how health equity goals were designed into our pandemic response framework
  • Review the outcomes that Virginia was able to achieve through these efforts in vaccination, testing, and mitigation

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Changes to Marijuana Laws in Virginia: Your Healthcare Workplace Need Not Go to Pot 

Robert J. Barry, Kaufman & Canoles, P.C.

  • Identify and understand how Virginia’s more permissive marijuana laws have changed
  • Discuss whether workplace substance abuse policies and employment application forms should be revised
  • Consider preventive and practical solutions to healthcare employee substance use and abuse following legalization of recreational use of
  • marijuana

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Virginia Legislative Update 

Julie Dime, Vice President, Government Advocacy, Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association
R. Brent Rawlings, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association

  • Understand the composition of Virginia’s Legislative and Executive Branches
  • Review recent legislative and regulatory developments impacting health care in Virginia
  • Recognize the importance of engaging with policymakers

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