CHITA Forums
The CHITA Forums – now entering their seventh year – first started in February 2000 when CHITA began focusing its efforts on issues related to privacy and security of health data transmission using Internet technologies. First named the HIPAA Readiness Forums, they responded to the shared concerns of many in our community as they rushed to prepare for new federal regulations and security deadlines.
Since that time, the Forums have evolved to address newer and more diverse topics of concern to CHITA’s members as they respond to the passage of new state and federal legislation, adapt to changing technologies, and respond to the formation of new organizations and alliances.
Led by a cross-disciplinary planning committee made up of volunteers representing a range of health care perspectives, the CHITA Forums continue to provide educational opportunities and places to network for hundreds of professionals each year.
CHITA Forum, Session XX
CHITA Forum on Health Care Information in WA State
With the current work in our state around the Health Information Infrastructure and Advisory Board (HIIAB) and Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration Project (HISPC) CHITA welcomes the opportunity to inform and increase communication among the many parties involved in health information exchange in Washington State.
CHITA would like to thank all the attendees who joined us for our May 2007 CHITA Forum at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel to hear from national experts and representatives from Washington State on the plan to design and establish a competitive health record bank model, including featured speakers Kelly Cronin, Director, Office of Programs and Coordination, and Linda Kloss, CEO, of the American Health Information Management Association.
CHITA is pleased to offer some selected materials and presentations for download.
- Kelly Cronin, Director of Programs and Coordination, Office of National Coordinator for Health Technology (ONCHIT), US Department Health and Human Services delivered a presentation on "Moving the National Health Information Technology Agenda Forward"
- Linda Kloss, CEO and Executive Vice President, American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) delivered a presentation on "Health Information Exchange - Principles, Lessons and Challenges"
- Dr. Joe Gifford, Chief Medical Officer, Regence BlueShield (Seattle) has put together an incomplete inventory of Washington State Health Information Technology projects
- All Washington State HISPC reports are available at: http://www.qualishealth.org/HISPC
- V. Marc Droppert, J.D., Chair of the WA State Health Information Infrastructure Advisory Board (HIIAB) provided a brief overview of their work. All HIIAB reports are available at: http://www.hca.wa.gov/hit/
CHITA Forum, Session XIX
We would like to thank all of our colleagues and members who joined us for our October 2006 Forum either in Seattle, or in Portland with our partner, the Oregon and Southwest Washington Healthcare, Privacy and Security Forum. CHITA is pleased to be able to offer the following selection of presentations from the Forum:
NPI 101 – Rule & Requirement Overview, presented by Chris Apgar, president of Apgar & Associates, LLC and former HIPAA Compliance officer for Providence Health Plans in Oregon and SW Washington. Chris is a nationally recognized data security, privacy, transaction & code sets & HIPAA expert, a member of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange Board of Directors, the HIPAA Compliance Insider Advisory Board, the Security Compliance Insider Advisory Board, the URAC Privacy Advisory Committee, and chairs the Oregon & SW Washington Healthcare, Privacy & Security Forum. He is also a member of the team working with the US Department of Health & Human Services to develop national privacy & security standards to assist in confidential and efficient electronic health record exchange. Mr. Apgar is a noted speaker and author in this field.
Planning Requirements for NPI, presented by Chris Apgar; Jim Fitzpatrick, facilitator for the Washington Healthcare Forum’s Administrative Simplification Effort; and Sally Klein, a Project Manager and Senior Consultant for FOX Systems, Inc. in Scottsdale, AZ, who has served as the HIPAA Project Manager for the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services.
Attendees were also directed to the Washington Healthcare Forum's page on the National Provider Identifier (NPI), which offers information on NPI timelines for health plans, FAQs, and additional resources & links.
CHITA Forum, Session XVIII
We would like to thank all of our colleagues and members who joined us for our March 2006 Forum. CHITA is pleased to be able to offer the following selection of presentations from the Forum:
- Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration: Washington’s Proposal delivered by Jonathan Sugarman, President and CEO of Qualis Health
- Data Exchange: Achieving a level of interoperability without standards delivered by Rand Strobel, COO of EHI Works
- Documenting HIPAA Readiness: What to Tell Your Business Partners delivered by Philip J. Nesser II, Information Security Officer at Group Health Cooperative
- Panel: Notification & Security Act: Lost PDA/Laptop Incident Response discussed by Bill Thieleman of Group Health Cooperative, Richard Meeks of UW Medicine, and Ellen Rubin of UW Medical Center
CHITA Forum, Session XVII
We would like to thank all of our colleagues and acquaintances who joined us for this forum. CHITA is pleased to be able to offer the presentation on Identity Theft: What Would Your Organization Do?delivered by Rob Brown, UW Medical Center, as well as an additional one-page handout that can be shared with patients whose identities have been stolen, courtesy of Kathy Gilles, Corporate Compliance Officer at Evergreen Healthcare.
