Webinar Description:

This webinar answers the basic questions: What power does the state have to use a HIPAA exception to patient confidentiality? How does one comply with such a request? What records are obtained that apply to a civil or to a criminal investigation? What pitfalls are there to noncompliance?

This webinar goes over the many law enforcement exceptions where health care practitioners are faced with demands for a law enforcement or public purpose that overrides the strict confidentiality of HIPAA and a patient’s expected right to privacy.

Why Should you Attend:

While the basic provisions of privacy for protected health information are well known, exceptions abound for the various law enforcement purposes as applied to both the federal and state government and its law enforcement activities.

This can include criminal and civil investigations. Erase the uncertainty and doubt that exists when the health care practitioner is confronted with a police demand for information.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• The basics of HIPAA privacy
• The basics of HIPAA privacy exceptions with patient consent
• Exceptions to HIPAA privacy for law enforcement purposes for civil matters
• Exceptions to HIPAA privacy for law enforcement purposes for criminal matters
• How exceptions to HIPAA privacy are applied by law enforcement agencies, with an emphasis on state licensure boards and agencies

This lesson will be going into great detail regarding your practice or business information technology and how it relates to the HIPAA Security Rule, in particular, portable devices.

Areas covered will be texting, email, encryption, medical messaging, voice data and risk factors as they relate to personal devices. I will uncover myths
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Webinar Description:

This webinar answers the basic questions: What power does the state have to use a HIPAA exception to patient confidentiality? How does one comply with such a request? What records are obtained that apply to a civil or to a criminal investigation? What pitfalls are there to noncompliance?

This webinar goes over the many law enforcement exceptions where health care practitioners are faced with demands for a law enforcement or public purpose that overrides the strict confidentiality of HIPAA and a patient’s expected right to privacy.

Why Should you Attend:

While the basic provisions of privacy for protected health information are well known, exceptions abound for the various law enforcement purposes as applied to both the federal and state government and its law enforcement activities.

This can include criminal and civil investigations. Erase the uncertainty and doubt that exists when the health care practitioner is confronted with a police demand for information.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• The basics of HIPAA privacy
• The basics of HIPAA privacy exceptions with patient consent
• Exceptions to HIPAA privacy for law enforcement purposes for civil matters
• Exceptions to HIPAA privacy for law enforcement purposes for criminal matters
• How exceptions to HIPAA privacy are applied by law enforcement agencies, with an emphasis on state licensure boards and agencies

This lesson will be going into great detail regarding your practice or business information technology and how it relates to the HIPAA Security Rule, in particular, portable devices.

Areas covered will be texting, email, encryption, medical messaging, voice data and risk factors as they relate to personal devices. I will uncover myths
Read More...