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Patient Rights, Medical Records and HIPAA - What You Need to Know as a Healthcare Provider

Overview
Being in compliance with HIPAA involves not only ensuring you provide the appropriate patient rights and controls on your uses and disclosures of protected health information, but you also have the proper policies and procedures in place. If audited or the subject of a compliance review you will be required to show the government you have all the necessary documentation in place for safeguarding patient Protected Health Information and indicate how you addressed all required privacy safeguards. This starts with the fundamentals of understanding a patient's rights to access their health information under HIPAA.
If your healthcare practice needs to understand what your responsibilities are regarding patient rights and access under HIPAA or make sure the current process is adequate and can withstand government scrutiny, please join us for this informative and interactive course.
Why should you attend this webinar?
With a substantial increase HIPAA data breaches and increased government enforcement, organizations must understand patient's rights for access to their health records under the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
Attendees will leave the course clearly understanding of all the requirements that must be in place for meeting this rule for the protection of personal health information their organizations maintain, create, transmit, or store. After completing this course, a healthcare provider will have a clear understanding for what needs to be place when it comes to meeting these HIPAA requirements for medical records.
Areas Covered in the Session:
  • Defining HIPAA, HITECH and the Omnibus Rule
  • Who Must Comply with HIPAA Requirements?
  • What is the HIPAA Privacy Rule?
  • What is Protected Health Information
  • What are Permitted and Authorized Disclosures?
  • What Rights do Patients have under HIPAA?
  • What responsibilities does a healthcare provider have to safeguard PHI?
  • What is a HIPAA data breach and what happens if it occurs?
  • What are the penalties and fines for non-compliance and how to avoid them?
  • HIPAA Violation - Case Examples
  • Q&A
Who can Benefit:
  • Physician Owners
  • HIPAA Privacy Officer
  • HIPAA Security Officer
  • Practice Managers
  • Information Systems Manager
  • Chief Information Officer
  • General Counsel/lawyer
  • Office Manager
  • Medical Billing Companies
  • Practice Management Consultants 
Visit:https://www.compliancekey.us/webinarDetails?industryId=3&webinarid=1226&speakerid=231

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