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OVERVIEW HIPAA regulations require the preparation and implementation of a disaster recovery plan to ensure that the health care organization continues providing health care services and protect the security and privacy of a patient’s protected health information. WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND The need for a business continuation plan – or disaster plan – starts with the requirements stated in the HIPAA regulations and continues to the ability of the health care organization to sustain itself in the event of a significant event.  The disaster plan provides a road map for what to do if a major event occurs and results in a significant interruption in the ability of the health care organization to continue to provide its services.  This includes not only being able to continue serving patients, but the ability of the health care to maintain its financial stability and protect the patients’ protected health care information.  This webinar provides the basis for an organiza...

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 crim...

OVERVIEW This HIPAA & Privacy Act Training covers confidentialitybeyond the privacy and other protections required by HIPAA.   An in-depth overview of medical records keeping starts this webinar examining the state law sources and even contractual requirements of medical record keeping. The webinar proceeds to review exceptions to confidentiality that is most frequently encountered by mental health professionals who practice in a high-risk setting where the consequences of a misstep can be very high. For many years now, HIPAA has provided a federal right to privacy for patient medical records, including mental health records.   However, fearing issues not with federal mandates but with state laws, the mental health care practitioner must know and comply with individual state laws and ethics governing the confidentiality of client information in the context of a doctor-patient relationship.  This is apart and beyond the technical components of HIPAA. HIP...

OVERVIEW This HIPAA & Privacy Act Training covers confidentiality beyond the privacy and other protections required by HIPAA.  An in-depth overview of medical records keeping starts this webinar examining the state law sources and even contractual requirements of medical record keeping. The webinar proceeds to review exceptions to confidentiality that is most frequently encountered by mental health professionals who practice in a high-risk setting where the consequences of a misstep can be very high. For many years now, HIPAA has provided a federal right to privacy for patient medical records, including mental health records.   However, fearing issues not with federal mandates but with state laws, the mental health care practitioner must know and comply with individual state laws and ethics governing the confidentiality of client information in the context of a doctor-patient relationship.  This is apart and beyond the technical components of HIPAA. HI...

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 crimi...