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Jun 26 2018

Karen Owens Discusses Legal Issues in Transgender Health Care at American Health Lawyers Association’s Annual Meeting

Karen Owens shared her expertise in health care issues relating to transgender patients in a presentation at the American Health Lawyers Association’s (AHLA) annual meeting in Chicago. Karen and co-presenter Trent Stechschulte discussed a variety of considerations, including HIPAA confidentiality, communication in clinical settings, electronic health records challenges, changes in gender markers, proper coding, insurance coverage, and more. They noted that this patient population has been largely “invisible” for some time, touching on timely issues relating to restrooms and hospital rooms. Karen represents health care systems, hospitals, clinics, and other providers in clinical operations matters, including quality management, medical staff credentialing and peer review, confidentiality, and state and federal government regulation and reporting. She also advises clients on patient-related legal issues. AHLA is the nation’s largest association devoted...

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Jun 22 2018

Sam Coppersmith Discusses Operations Issues for Tax-Exempt Organizations in Webinar for National Business Institute

Naomi Jorgensen

Sam Coppersmith again shared his expertise in tax-exempt organizations in a webinar for the National Business Institute (NBI). Alongside co-presenters Michelle Huhnke of Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Hammer, LLP of Chicago, and Jennifer Urban of Legal for Good PLLC of St. Louis Park, MN, Sam discussed how tax-exempt organizations should handle lobbying and political activities, and courses of action for a variety of employee issues, including contract, compensation, benefits, firing, and more. Sam, and the rest of the panel, are regular speakers for NBI on nonprofit organizations, including private foundations, forming a nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations, and serving on a nonprofit board. Sam has more than three decades of experience assisting local and national businesses and nonprofit entities as well as individuals and small businesses, including serving as a...

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Jun 19 2018

Karen Owens Discusses Transgender Documentation in Presentation at Arizona Health Information Management Association Annual Meeting

Naomi Jorgensen

Karen Owens discussed issues involved in transgender patient documentation in a presentation at the Arizona Health Information Management Association’s (AzHIMA) annual meeting. Karen explored a variety of considerations related to communications and documentation relating to transgender patients, including names, gender markers, coding, and electronic health records considerations. Karen has extensive experience representing health care systems, hospitals, clinics, and other providers in clinical operations matters, including licensure and certification, quality management, medical staff credentialing and peer review, confidentiality, and state and federal government regulation and reporting. She also advises clients on patient-related legal issues. AzHIMA is Arizona’s chapter of the American Health Information Management Association. With more than 800 members, AzHIMA provides continuing education for health information management professionals. Learn more about the presentation here....

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Kristen Rosati on Planning Committee for National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Workshop on Data Sharing

Jun 18 2018

Kristen Rosati Addresses Regulatory Developments, Mobile Technology in Presentation for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Naomi Jorgensen

On June 6 in Washington, D.C, Kristen Rosati addressed the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders in a workshop entitled Harnessing Mobile Technology to Predict, Diagnose, Monitor, and Develop Treatments for Nervous System Disorders. Kristen discussed recent regulatory developments that affect the use of mobile technology in neuroscience research and clinical care, including HIPAA, the federal regulations governing human subject protections in research, and the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Kristen has deep experience in all things “Big Data,” including health information exchange, data sharing for research and clinical integration, clinical research compliance, biobanking, genomic privacy, and data breaches. She is one of the nation’s leading HIPAA compliance attorneys. Learn more about the organization here. ...

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May 08 2018

Melissa Soliz Discusses Changes to Health Regulations for Research at Arizona Biomedical Research Commission Workshop

Naomi Jorgensen

Melissa Soliz shared her expertise in health information rules and regulations in a presentation at an Arizona Biomedical Research Commission (ARBC) workshop. Melissa discussed the HIPAA research rules, how HIPAA intersects with both the Common Rule, how recent changes to 42 C.F.R. Part 2 impacts substance use disorder research, and changes to various NIH policies that affect health research and community partnerships. ABRC is a division of the Arizona Department of Health Services, providing grant funding, research education, and more to help advance Arizona as a leader in bioscience. Melissa focuses her practice on HIPAA and 42 C.F.R. Part 2 compliance (the federal Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Record regulations), data breaches and OCR investigations, electronic health records and health information exchanges, compliance with opioid treatment laws...

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Apr 26 2018

Sam Coppersmith Discusses Importance of Media Literacy, Civic Engagement in Congress to Campus Forum

Naomi Jorgensen

Sam Coppersmith recently discussed the threat of foreign interference in United States elections at a forum at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany, NY. Sam and former Congressman Dan Miller (R-Florida) led the public forum, which was a part of the Congress to Campus program. Topics ranged from cybersecurity to fake news to the importance of thinking critically to sift through information. The former Congressmen encouraged young people to get involved in politics, noting that doing so is an important form of public service. The Congress to Campus program is a project of the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress and the Stennis Center for Public Service at Mississippi State University that aims to increase civic literacy and participation among college students. A bipartisan pair of former...

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Karen Owens Discusses Legal Issues in Transgender Health Care at American Health Lawyers Association’s Annual Meeting

Sam Coppersmith Discusses Operations Issues for Tax-Exempt Organizations in Webinar for National Business Institute

Karen Owens Discusses Transgender Documentation in Presentation at Arizona Health Information Management Association Annual Meeting

Kristen Rosati Addresses Regulatory Developments, Mobile Technology in Presentation for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Melissa Soliz Discusses Changes to Health Regulations for Research at Arizona Biomedical Research Commission Workshop

Sam Coppersmith Discusses Importance of Media Literacy, Civic Engagement in Congress to Campus Forum

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