CTEL Brown Bag: “Telemedicine Privacy, Security, and Anti-Kick Back--What do You Need to Know to Avoid Tripping Up (Legally!)".
Join us for CTeL's Telehealth Brown Bag Webinar Monday, September 19th at 12:00 noon (EDT), entitled, “Telemedicine Privacy, Security, and Anti-Kick Back--What do You Need to Know to Avoid Tripping Up (Legally!)".
We've scheduled an exciting program with two of the telemedicine industry's experts, who will help fill in the blanks about privacy and security regulations and what you need to be aware of when operating your telemedicine program.
Hear it first hand from Rene Quashie, CTeL regulatory attorney and Tom Brewer, Project Director for the Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center, about these critical HIPAA anti-kick back issues:
What do you need to know about HIPAA rules if you are using a Smartphone device?
Why the often-asked question, "Is Skype HIPAA compliant?", is not the right question to ask.
When can your telemedicine program legally provide network equipment and when would you be looking at a legal problem?
Member Price: FREE
Non-Member Price: $25.00
Meet Our Speakers
René Y. Quashie
Regulatory Attorney
Mr. René Quashie is a regulatory attorney in Drinker Biddle & Reath’s Government and Regulatory Affairs Practice Group and also serves as CTeL's regulatory attorney. Mr. Quashie works primarily on federal regulatory and administrative health care and telehealth matters, including Medicare and Medicaid, privacy and security, general compliance, clinical research, FDA issues, and product liability tort litigation. His expertise on Medicare coverage and coding issues pertaining to telemedicine has proven to be especially valuable to CTeL and the telehealth community. Furthermore, Mr. Quashie specializes in privacy and security of health care information, including Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations and various state law provisions.
Mr. Quashie earned his J.D. from The George Washington University Law Center. In 2008, he was named by Nightingale's Healthcare News as one of the 12 Outstanding Young Healthcare Attorneys in the United States.
Tom Brewer
Project Director
Mr. Tom Brewer is the Project Director the Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center(NRTRC) and has 35 years of experience in service’s management with the last 16 being in telehealth. Prior to working for the NRTRC, Tom has held positions as Director of Operations for both the University of Miami Telemedicine Center and Partners in Health Telemedicine Network at St. Vincent Healthcare. Tom has a B.S. in Business Administration and Information Systems and a M.S. in Information Processing and Communications from Montana State University - Billings.
