With the current and future provisions to the HITECH Act set to be released later this fall, and deadlines for compliance looming soon thereafter in February 2010, providers are faced with many strategic and tactical HIT management decisions, though most are unprepared! DO NOT become an industry poster child for non-compliance and data breach disasters that can compromise both patient safety and institutional security and reputation. Can you afford a breach? Are you ready to move into the era of compliance?

Don't miss the unique opportunity to shield your organization from risk and liability by attending the mission-critical World Health Care Congress Leadership Summit on HITECH and HIPAA Compliance Management. Presenting strategic frameworks for the C-Suite and in-depth, tactical solutions for your IT and operations teams, this must attend Summit will feature industry experts and key association think-tank leaders presenting solutions on how to expose risk, minimize liability and maintain compliance in an environment of continual "HIT change."

• The HIPAA Survival Guide, authored by The Digital Business Law Group, LLC
• The Business Associate Checklist, authored by Summit Chairman Jim C. Pyles of Power, Pyles, Sutter & Verville LLC

• ESTABLISH an infrastructure to support a connected health environment
• REALIZE the impact of reform on your business operations given the mandatory integration of increased data privacy and security efforts
• REPORT, track and fix a data breach under the new notification enforcement philosophy and recent FTC rulings
• SHIELD your organization from the emerging liability of business associates and covered entities: Ensure contract compliance in the new era of reform
• ADAPT contracts with your business associates and covered entities to comply with new HIPAA law
• UNDERSTAND the privacy and security frameworks for receiving Medicare and Medicaid dollars: Going beyond HIPAA for the recipient of federal funds
• MAKE the connection between financial and medical identify theft: Differentiating between the two categories and identifying how and why they occur
• EDUCATE your team on the 27 FTC Red Flag Rules and how to integrate a comprehensive ID theft program to your covered entities
• BREAK DOWN the silos and paint a holistic picture for adherence and compliance: How your compliance strategy and EHR strategy can more forward together

Speaking Faculty Members Include
James C. Pyles Principal Power, Pyles, Sutter & Verville, PC	Laura Adams President and Chief Executive Officer Rhode Island Quality Institute
Adam Bosworth Chief Executive Officer, Keas, Inc.; Former Vice President, Google, Inc.	David J. Brailer, MD, PhD Former and First National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Founder Health Evolution Partners
Ray Campbell Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer Massachusetts Health Data Consortium	William Jefferson Clinton Founder, The Clinton Foundation; 42nd President of the United States of America
Molly Joel Coye, MD, MPH Founder and Chief Executive Officer Health Technology Center	Brandon Ho HIPAA Compliance Specialist, Pacific Regional Medical Command Tripler Army Medical Center
Rajeev Kapoor Vice President and Global Managing Director, Healthcare Vertical Verizon Business	Carlos Leyva, Esq. Managing Shareholder The Digital Business Law Group, P.A.
Deborah Leyva, RN, BSN Co-Chair, Ambulatory Sub-Committee, The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT); Blogger of Healthcare & Innovation, www.myhealthtechblog.com	Deven McGraw Director, Health Privacy Project Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)
Thomas G. Morrison Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer NaviNet	Jeremy Noble, MD, MPH Adjunct Lecturer Harvard School of Public Health
Uday Ali Pabrai, CISSP (ISSAP, ISSMP), CSCSâ„¢ Chief Executive Officer ecfirst and HIPAA Academy	John C. Parmigiani President, John C. Parmigiani and Associates, LLC; Former Director, Enterprise Standards, HCFA, Ellicott City, MD
Robert L. Siciliano Chief Executive Officer, IDTheftSecurity.com; Personal Security and Identity Theft Expert and Author, The Safety Minute: 01; Editorial Board Member, Bank Fraud & IT Security Report	Donald W. Simborg, MD Co-founder and Board Member, Health Level 7 (HL7); Founding Member, American College of Medical Informatics; Chairman, Executive Team, Anti-Fraud Project, ONC; Board Member, Foundation on Research and Education, American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)