For highly skilled medical practitioners and other workers in today’s healthcare world, employers often grapple with the initial training and implementation of HIPAA mandates for medical records privacy. This covers all sorts of Protected Health Information for which there is a federal right to privacy.

While purporting to protect the legitimate privacy interests of the patient, HIPAA has many exceptions that may apply.  As such, new healthcare practitioners and new healthcare employees must know the basics of HIPAA laws and requirements.

State laws in addition protect patient privacy, and state licensure laws for health care professionals especially cover patient privacy in many ways, including vast schemes of laws in mental health.  Discover how these state licensure laws mesh with and complement healthcare privacy already mandated by HIPAA.

Learn the basics of what health care practitioners must know upon initial employment and practice in the health care world.  Follow up with the regular training and updates needed to stay up-to-date with new HIPAA rules – as continuing training for health care workers and employees is mandated by HIPAA itself.

Areas Covered:-

• Basics of HIPAA laws
• How HIPAA and state laws intertwine
• Examples of state licensure laws on confidentiality for health care practitioners
• HIPAA training requirements for initial and continued education
• Fundamental HIPAA mandates that all new healthcare employees must know
• Elements of HIPAA Compliance for the New Healthcare Practitioner

Background:-

The background for this topic is for someone new to HIPAA compliance or for a new health care practitioner who must understand and apply HIPPA confidentiality in their work in the health care professions.

Why Should You Attend:-

Erase the fear, uncertainty, and doubt about tackling the basics of HIPAA’s medical records and information confidentiality.

Because new healthcare employees and practitioners obtain much clinical and medical training, but very little legal training, HIPAA knowledge is a must.  In fact, HIPAA laws themselves require initial training and regular training updates thereafter.

Discover what you need to know in this HIPAA boot camp.

Who Should Attend:-

Healthcare law attorneys; licensed healthcare practitioners in private practice in mental health and in physical medicine; medical directors of health facilities; office managers and medical directors of private medical offices; healthcare managers and executives; corporate counsel in health care; healthcare administrators; university faculty in health care and medical records; allied health professionals in graduate-level medical education across the many health care professions; corporate compliance officers; human resource directors and departments