Why should we worried about HIPAA do's and don'ts?
Brian Tuttle is Keynote Speaker at ComplianceKey. He is Certified Professional in Health IT (CPHIT), Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP), Certified Business Resilience Auditor (CBRA) with over 19 years experience in Health IT and Compliance Consulting. Mr. Tuttle has worked all of those 15 years with MAG Mutual Healthcare Solutions and is now Senior Compliance Consultant and IT Manager with InGauge Healthcare Solutions (previously named MAG Mutual Healthcare Solutions). Almost all of Brian's clients are earned by referral with little or no advertising. Brian is well known and highly regarded in........
This Webinar qualifies for a recertification credit hour that may be counted toward SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP recertification from SHRM.
This Lecture contains 1.5 Credits
Overview
This webinar will be addressing how practice/business managers (or compliance offers) need to get the facts straight on how to navigate through these troubled waters and yet maintain compliance with HIPAA and ensure a patient's federal Civil Rights are upheld.
- Information Security Risks
- Permitted disclosures during a pandemic
- What to disclose to others who may have been in contact with an infected patient
- How to work remotely and stay compliant with HIPAA
Why should you attend this webinar?
- How do we balance patient privacy during a pandemic?
- How do we respond to news media on cases we are treating?
- Are there compliance risks in what we should be addressing in our response and what type of disclosures are we permitted to make?
- What disclosures can we make to those who may have been in contact with an afflicted patient?
- What are the best tactics for having staff members work from home (telemedicine or teleworking) and how do we ensure compliance in an ad-hoc remote setup?
- Are staff adequately trained on the nuances of teleworking using their personal devices?
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Federal HIPAA obligations and how a pandemic applies
- Working from home in a compliant manner
- New definition of what constitutes protected health information
- Cybersecurity concerns (heightened due to outbreak)
- BYOD (use of personal devices)
- Acceptable disclosures during a pandemic per HIPAA
- Updates from OCR relating to the outbreak and HIPAA rights
Who can Benefit:
- Practice Managers
- Any Business Associates who work with Medical Practices or Hospitals (i.e. Billing Companies, Transcription Companies, IT Companies, Answering Services, Home Health, Coders, Attorneys, etc)
- MD's and Other Medical Professionals
