Broward Monthly Lunch Meeting

  • Thursday, July 14, 2016
  • 11:45 AM - 1:30 PM
  • Tower Club, Fort Lauderdale

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This is a one-hour presentation on both FIPA and the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules and how they affect the retrieval, retention, and destruction of Protected Health Information during the litigation process.  The new 2009 HITECH regulations are also covered as well as the 2013 HIPAA Omnibus Rule. 

The HIPAA Administrative, Physical and Technical Safeguard requirements along with HHS enforcement activities and fines are covered for law firms and legal departments representing healthcare entities.

The 2014 Florida Information Protection ACT (FIPA) is also covered and includes covered entities, the definition of personal information, breach notification rules and fines and penalties applying to all Florida businesses that store personal information electronically.

Heather L. Hughes received her Bachelor of Science from Florida State University and her Juris Doctorate from South Texas College of Law. She is Certified in Healthcare Privacy Compliance and she has over twenty years’ experience in healthcare compliance for both healthcare entities and a national consulting firm. She has been the HIPAA Privacy Officer for a large private healthcare company and two litigation support firms. Heather has been presenting CLEs on HIPAA for over ten years and her presentation has been accredited by the Texas, Louisiana, West Virginia, Missouri, Florida, California, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania Bar Associations.

U.S. Legal Support is a full service national litigation support firm specializing in record retrieval, electronic discovery, and court reporting services for law firms, insurance companies and corporations across the country.  U.S. Legal Support is headquartered in Houston, Texas and has 60 offices across the United States.

Session Title:  HIPAA – with CLE credit for attorneys

CLM recertification - approved for 1 hr HR

Please bring your donations for the Back To School Collection to this lunch meeting.  See the flyer on the homepage of the website for details.




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