Webinar: HIPAA and HIT Best Practices for Hospital Executives & Board Trustees
Webinar Topic: Health IT Webinar for Hospital Executives and Board Trustees
Date: May 21, 2014
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. EST
Presenter: Helen Oscislawski, Esq.
Register here: www.njha.com/education/education-calendar
This webinar is designed to provide hospital trustees and executives with a better understanding of Health IT “best practices.” This session offers practical, timely and relevant information to help participants better understand and overcome Health IT challenges that hospitals encounter.
This educational session will cover:
- OCR’s $279K settlement with Shasta Regional Medical Center stemming from hospital executives disclosing patient’s information to media.
- What federal enforcers have said about hospital leaders’ responsibility for building a culture of HIPAA compliance.
- Find out can a hospital CEO or board member ever view patient information?
- Minimum Necessary – Never give ‘em the kitchen sink if they asked for just the fork!
- The risk of sending electronic patient health information through unsecured e-mail, and is it ever “ok”?
- What to be careful of when using Social Media, like You Tube, Facebook, for hospital marketing and publicity.
- Cloud-based vendors and best practices of how to store and transmit your hospital’s patient information in a HIPAA complaint manner.
- Breaches – the rules, the repercussions and lessons learned from others’ mistakes
DON’T MISS MY UPCOMING EVENTS:
June 4, 2014 – Helen is invited by Dr. Deborah Peel, founder of Patient Privacy Rights Org, to speak on a panel discussing Opt-In and Opt-Out of data sharing at the 4th International Privacy Summit in Washington D.C. See http://patientprivacyrights.org
June 6, 2014 – Helen will conduct a “HIPAA HITECH Update” workshop geared specifically to New Jersey Substance Abuse and Addiction and Mental Health Providers. The workshop will also cover the recent guidance and changes at the federal level with regard to networked health information exchange (HIE). For more info, contact http://www.njamhaa.org
