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Expert discussion of the complex issues created by HIPAA eases implementation and ongoing compliance oversight. Content and resources are collected by the HIPAA.com team under the supervision our contributing experts, who also provide the commentary necessary for speedy understanding and context-driven application.

Alex Zaltsman
Alex Zaltsman is a serial technology entrepreneur. He started his first technology business in 1998 which helped companies without information technology departments outsource their information technology needs. Clients and business associates look to Alex to provide expertise on wide range of topics from network infrastructure and security, data encryption, virtualization, cloud computing, and mobile software. Alex has been quoted by and written for industry publications such as ADVANCE, TechTarget, Information Week, CRN and CRNTech Magazine, and Channel Insider. His current company, Experior Data Security and Encryption, specializes in implementing and supporting on-premise and on-demand data encryption solutions for regulatory compliance, including HIPAA and the HITECH Act within ARRA.

Carolyn Hartley
Carolyn is the lead or co-author of 13 textbooks published by the American Medical Association on HIPAA privacy, security, and electronic health record (EHR) implementation. She has held positions as Communications Sr. Director in human therapeutics, biotechnology, and patient information management with international and national public relations agencies, and has earned the Silver Anvil award for her clients, the highest honor bestowed on a communications team. She currently owns and manages a consulting company that serves as an implementation project manager and technical consultant for healthcare providers in selecting and implementing an EHR system. Carolyn’s team of certified consultants also serve as EHR technical advisors to numerous provider societies and associations.

Ed Jones
Ed is a leading authority on healthcare, insurance, electronic remittance/payments, and electronic health records issues. He was a founding commissioner of the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) and served as the Chair of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), an organization with over 300 corporate and government healthcare industry stakeholders that serves as an advisor to the US Secretary of Health and Human Services under HIPAA. He also served as a senior executive with a NYSE healthcare benefits and property & casualty reinsurance holding company and co-founded a successful medical claims review software company. Ed currently owns and manages a consulting company that provides healthcare information technology solutions for banks and healthcare providers, and is completing his fifth book with co-author Carolyn Hartley for the American Medical Association.

Edward Shay
Edward F. Shay restricts his national practice in Health Law to a range of intertwined issues involving payor-provider relationships, value based purchasing, disease management and emerging health information applications and developments. His practice currently focuses on health information exchange, electronic health information management and databases, and donation of electronic health records. For over ten years, Shay has worked extensively with HIPAA’s transactions, privacy and security requirements and how those and other health information rules impact emerging technologies such as electronic health records, and the stewardship of health information databases. He has represented stakeholders on matters involving health information ownership, licensing, and protection, and matters involving commercialization and secondary use of health information.