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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.