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MARCH 10TH EDUCATIONAL MEETING
March 10, 2022 @ 8:30 am - 1:00 pm
Come and join us for Breakfast and a great Educational Program featuring great speakers such as Jennifer Cox, Michele Lucan, Matt Turner, Phil Goyeau, as well as some great topics. Network with your peers and see old friends. All COVID protocols will be adhered to per the hotel’s rules. If you have any questions please contact Tara at 203-812-9783 or
We will be offering 4 CEU’s for this event.
Cost is as follows
Members 65.00
Non Members 75.00
Students 35.00
- AGENDA
8:30 – 9:00 Registration
9:00- 10:00 Privacy & Data Security in Connecticut
Presenter: Michele Lucan, Deputy Associate Attorney General at the Connecticut Attorney General’s Office and Chief of its Privacy Section will provide an overview of relevant data security and privacy laws, including recent updates to Connecticut’s data breach notification law. She will further discuss the Office’s enforcement work and key takeaways from recent cases as well as highlight a few trends that the Office is seeing in terms of data breaches.
10:00 – 11:00 Social Determinants of Heath, HCCs and Z-Codes
Presenter: Phil Goyeau, 3M HIS Represent Social Determinants of Health have become increasingly important in terms of value-based care and have become a high priority for payers and government entities. Z-codes are used to capture data on the social needs of their patient population which identify non-medical factors that can have a profound impact on the well-being of your patient population. While HCCs will continue to be the foundation for population health-based reimbursement, new approaches to Health Equity have driven added coding requirements around Z-codes.
This session will:
1. Review Social Determinants of Health and how factors such as health literacy, inadequate housing and inequalities in accessibility to health care can drive poor patient outcomes.
2. Revisit HCCs as the foundation not only managing patient’s chronic disease burdens and how providers are reimbursed to care for these populations.
3. Cover Z-codes which are the ICD-10 encounter reason codes used to document Social Determinants of Health data.
4. Discuss changes in technology and artificial intelligence being developed to adapt to changes in coding
11:00 – 12:00 CAC Technology Update: From NLP to Machine Learning and Autonomous Coding and the Future of CAC as a Collaboration Platform.
Presenter: Matt Turner, National Account Manager with Dolbey Systems Inc.
This session will discuss the evolution of computer assisted coding (CAC) from natural language processing (NLP) to machine learning (ML) and the current transition into autonomous coding. We’ll review how this technology evolution improved the overall performance and the current limitations of autonomous coding.
Once we update you on the underlying technologies, we will focus on the growth of CAC beyond its original role as a coder productivity tool. While code suggestion and coder productivity are still at its core, CAC solutions are expanding to be comprehensive, single platform collaboration solutions. Solutions that can bring CDI, Coding, Quality, Auditing and Denials Management together to provide efficient sharing of information and results as well as providing unparalleled access to data and reporting.
12:00 – 1:00 Challenges For Using Data To Combat Healthcare Disparities
Presenter: Jennifer Cox JD, Cox & Osowiecki
The program will provide an overview of the key challenges involved in addressing healthcare disparities through data collection and analysis. The program will cover:
* The role of social influencers of health
* Use of data for population health compared with individual health
* Working with community-based, non-healthcare organizations, including privacy and security considerations
* Challenges to standardizing data collection and analysis
HIPAA Lightning Round. The program will also include a brief update on major HIPAA challenges and trends
looking back at 2021: OCR enforcement and breach trends, making sure patient record access is a priority, federal COVID-19 flexibility for records.
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