HIPAA privacy exceptions for law enforcement purposes applied to health care professionals
OVERVIEW
The basic provisions of privacy for protected health informationare well known in HIPAA. Exceptions abound for various law enforcement
purposes as applied to both the federal and state government and its law
enforcement activities, including criminal and civil matters. Erase the
uncertainty and doubt that exists when the health care practitioner is
confronted with a police demand for information.
What can you release? To whom? Do you have to notify
the patient? Should you notify the patient? What must you document
as a permitted disclosure when the police call? Find out in this
informative webinar that arms you with a fuller knowledge of the HIPAA privacy
exceptions for law enforcement purposes.
This webinar answers the advanced questions: What power
does the state have to use a HIPAA exception to confidentiality? How does
one comply with 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.
Both criminal and civil public purposes for law enforcement
exceptions exist that may burden the health care practitioner with requests
that must be complied with.
Take a deeper look into how state licensure agencies go about
their unique government investigations and obtain protected health information
to further their own state-mandated, investigative purposes. This occurs
when the license of the health care practitioner is under investigation and
their very livelihood is at stake.
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WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND
While the basics of HIPAA privacy are well known, and while
health care practitioners know how to maintain privacy and to keep information
confidential, fear exists in not knowing the many exceptions enjoyed by law
enforcement as used for government or public purposes.
These exceptions not only allow but require a health care
practitioner to release information. Uncertainty exists when faced with a
high-stakes situation of criminal, civil, and public health needs – matters of
life and death involving criminal fugitives or the identification of victims of
violent crimes.
Uncertainty increases when faced with consequences for not
releasing protected health information or for releasing such information
inappropriately. Strict compliance is doubtful unless the health care
practitioner is fully informed. Know how compliance can be had by
responding to a law enforcement request for protected health information by
providing only what the law specifically allows – but mandates – to
Erase the fear, uncertainty, and doubt with this advanced
overview of the many law enforcement exceptions to HIPAA. Review a
laundry-list of the most common exceptions that apply not merely to “law
enforcement” as in criminal or civil matters, but to “public purposes” such as
dealing with dead bodies and public health crises.
This webinar educates the health care practitioner to be aware
of the many exceptions to HIPAA privacy so the practitioner will know more than
the police when the police come calling demanding protected health
information. Know the advanced information necessary to prepare to comply
when time is of the essence and the police are waiting your response.
AREAS COVERED
This webinar introduces in detail to integrate speaker’s
education, training, and experience into segue of detailed course
objectives. Disclaimers are provided that this webinar is not a
comprehensive review of all things HIPAA, but simply focuses on one area of
this law.
HIPAA privacy basics are covered along with points on releasing
protected health information with client consent. A brief history of
HIPAA is reviewed along with comparisons to state law on patient
confidentiality as applied to licensed health care professionals. State
evidentiary rules will be mentioned. Some information on state medical
record issues is covered regarding medical record-keeping and the content of
records. Procedures are discussed about the release of confidential
information and patient communications.
HIPAA exceptions then become the bulk of the remainder of the
webinar for law enforcement purposes. This can best be described as the release
of protected health information without the consent of the patient and without
the opportunity to object.
HIPAA exceptions are now the detail of this webinar. We
start with public health exceptions, and how that applies to a health care
practitioner listing the many things that public health entities may obtain for
a public health purpose. Examples include the Food and Drug
Administration, employers required to report workplace injuries and other
health issues, and schools which are required to report similar health
information to government authorities.
HIPAA exceptions for law enforcement also cover mandatory
reporting of suspected child dependency, neglect, or abuse as well as adult
abuse or neglect, and also domestic violence.
HIPAA exceptions for health oversight activities are then
reviewed. These exceptions cover many different aspects of the government’s
“police power” to regulate licensed health care practitioners and the
government programs that fund health care.
HIPAA exceptions are now the focus concerning judicial and
administrative proceedings. A list of categories will be completed.
The webinar then focuses on how state licensure agencies use this particular
HIPAA exception to conduct an investigation into the licensed health care
practitioner.
The webinar does cover a final section on HIPAA exceptions for
true law enforcement reasons, such as the reporting of certain injuries from
violent crime (i.e., gunshot wounds) and the identification of criminal
fugitives or deceased persons.
The HIPAA privacy and security training concludes with a review
of some cases from the courts and a “top takeaways” or “checklist” of points to
summarize the material.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- 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;
- How you may comply to a request for Protected Health
Information when the patient is in trouble and law enforcement is
involved;
- How you may comply to a request for Protected Health
Information when you are in trouble;
- Case law from the courts regarding HIPAA privacy
exceptions for law enforcement purposes.
WHO WILL BENEFIT
Individual health care practitioners; health care attorneys;
teachers and educators in graduate-level medical education across the many
health care professions; corporate counsel in health care.
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