This webinar provides an overview of core privacy requirements of HIPAA, the basics of which should be well-known and practiced by all health care practitioners.These provisions cover office staff and others.Then, the subject moves to patient privacy in a digital age, with a review of social media activities of health care practitioners and employees.

 This webinar thus provides a brief summary of those basic HIPAA privacy protections then goes into detail on the many ways the office staff of a health care provider may run afoul of the privacy exceptions found in HIPAA.

 Examine the uncertainty about how office staff and employees of health care facilities may be liable for confidentiality breaches for HIPAA privacy violations. Erase the uncertainty and doubt that exists when the health care practitioners and facilities attempt to set the rules in advance to govern patient privacy with regards to office staff and employees.

 This confidentiality liability may extend to the office staff and employee’s use of phone calls, texts, e-mails, and mailings, as well as social media and business review sites.

This new webinar goes over the duties of a health care practitioner to be responsible for ensuring compliance with HIPAA by their office staff.This webinar begins with a summary of basic HIPAA privacy protections, then goes into detail on what duties the health care practitioner has educate and to ensure compliance with HIPAA by their employees.

 Can the health care practitioner get in trouble if he or she has not educated and trained their staff who violates HIPAA confidentiality?  Can the health care practitioner get in trouble if he or she has educated and adequately trained their staff, who nonetheless violations HIPAA privacy protections? 

 Find out in this webinar crucial for any health care practitioner who employs others in their office where confidentiality is important.This is an advanced webinar.