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Keeping HIPAA and Patient Privacy in Health Care when Working from Home, Including Telepractice of Mental Health
- The basics of HIPAA privacy requirements
- Practical tips for health care practitioners working from home
- Guidelines from national organizations on maintaining patient privacy
- Perils of confidentiality breaches in a digital age when working from home
- Federal HIPAA waivers during this public health emergency
- Examples of state licensure laws governing the telepractice of mental health applicable to work from home settings
- Core rules for employment policies
Overview of the webinar
This new webinar provides an overview of privacy requirements of HIPAA and their application especially in work from home settings, the basics of patient privacy should be well-known and practiced by all health care practitioners. Then, the subject moves to the work form home activities of health care practitioners – with a specific focus on practical and legal tips to maintaining confidentiality in work from home settings.
This new webinar thus provides a brief summary of those basic HIPAA privacy protections then goes into detail on the many ways a health care provider may run afoul of the privacy exceptions via work from home settings,the use of social media. During this time of a national public health emergency, the federal government has issued various waivers and notices of enforcement discretion for HIPAA violations in non-secure electronic communications.
This webinar will also cover examples of state laws that apply to licensed health care professionals that mandate confidentiality and apply to the practice of telehealth by mental health providers.Finally, take a look at how employment rules of the health care facility may impact the work from home rules and privacy by the health care practitioner and are especially focused on the patient confidentiality.
Who should attend?
- Health Care Attorneys
- Corporate Compliance Officers in Health Care
- Health Care Practitioners who are Covered Entities
- Law Enforcement Officers in Health Care Compliance
- Human Resources Offices
- Managers in a Health Care Facility
- Nurses
- Attorney
- Compliance Officer
- CEO
- CFO
- Directors of Nursing
Why should you attend?
This new webinar goes over the dos and don’ts of patient privacy and HIPAA in work from home settings. This webinar follows the employer’s perspective, but offers guidance and practical tips for the employee to maintain privacy and to be productive.
This webinar focus on the ways health care providers can work effectively from home during state isolation and quarantine mandates. In addition, the telepractice of mental health will be examined with an emphasis on examples of state licensure laws governing telepractice.Standards and guidelines from national organizations will be reviewed – all with the goal of preventative action so as to health care professionals stay out of trouble.
Finally, while state licensure board laws are one aspect and consequence of privacy in work from home settings, or in any electronic format for the practice of health care, employment policies provide the underlying basis for deeper rules governing the health care practitioner.Examples of core rules for employment policies and “dos and don’ts” in an employment setting will cover this topic that apply to work from home situations.
Faculty - Mr.Mark Brengelman
Mark worked as the assigned counsel to numerous health professions licensure boards as an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Moving to private practice, he now helps private clients in a wide variety of contexts who are professionally licensed.
Mark became interested in the law when he graduated with both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Philosophy from Emory University in Atlanta. He then earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Kentucky College of Law. In 1995, Mark became an Assistant Attorney General and focused in the area of administrative and professional law where he represented multiple boards as General Counsel and Prosecuting Attorney.
Mark is a frequent participant in continuing education and has been a presenter for over thirty national and state organizations and private companies, including webinars and in-person seminars. National and state organizations include the Kentucky Bar Association, the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General, and the National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute.