Texting and E-mail With Patients Under HIPAA
About This Event
Overview: This session will focus on the rights of individuals to communicate in the manner they desire, and how a medical office can decide what is an acceptable process for communications with individuals. The session will explain how to discuss communications options with individuals so that you can best meet their needs and desires, while preserving their rights under the rules.
Why should you attend:
The HIPAA Omnibus Update rules contain numerous changes to HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification rules that affect communication with patients and clients of health care services, who often ask to communicate with health care offices via e-mail or text message. Many of the policies and procedures in place at every health care-related organization will need to be reviewed and updated to meet the new requirements.
Areas Covered in the Session:
Find out the ways that patients want to use their e-mail and texting to communicate with providers, and the ways providers want to use e-mail and texting to enable better patient care
Learn what are the risks of using e-mail and texting, what can go wrong, and what can result when it does
Find out about HIPAA requirements for access and patient preferences, as well as the requirements to protect PHI
Learn how to use an information security management process to evaluate risks and make decisions about how best to protect PHI and meet patient needs and desires
Find out what policies and procedures you should have in place for dealing with e-mail and texting, as well as any new technology
Who Will Benefit:
Compliance Director
CEO
CFO
Privacy Officer
Security Officer
Information Systems Manager
HIPAA Officer
Chief Information Officer
Health Information Manager
Healthcare Counsel/lawyer
Office Manager
Jim Sheldon-Dean is the founder and director of compliance services at Lewis Creek Systems, LLC, a Vermont-based consulting firm founded in 1982, providing information privacy and security regulatory compliance services to a wide variety of health care entities.
MentorHealth
Phone No: 800-385-1607
FaX: 302-288-6884
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