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HIPAA Violations and Social Media - Hospital Liability for Employees

Presented by Mark R Brengelman
Duration - 60 Minutes

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Description

HIPAA Violations Social Media and Employer Liability in a Health Care Setting – What you Need to Know and How You Can Prevent This

Employment remedies are easy against hospital workers who violate HIPAA privacy – they simply get fired. But what about the liability attached to the hospital itself?

HIPAA Violations on Social Media in Health Care is an advanced webinar that gives the basics of HIPAA privacy as applied to hospitals and employees, with a review of standard social media rules and glaring examples of HIPAA violations for blatant social media abuses.

Next, this webinar examines two landmarks -- but divergent – recent state court cases on hospital liability for employee HIPAA violations and social media.

Take a deep dive into how one hospital escaped liability, and another did not. To limit liability, this social media HIPAA violations webinar covers employment best practices for social media rules.

Finally, you will learn tips and techniques to avoid hospital liability for its employee’s social media violations. Social Media HIPAA Violations in Health Care is an advanced webinar.

Speaker

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Mark holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Philosophy from Emory University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Kentucky.

Retiring as an Assistant Attorney General, he now represents:

  • Healthcare professionals
  • Two government healthcare licensure boards
  • A government ethics commission
  • Parents and kids in confidential child abuse and neglect cases, termination of parental rights, and... Read more

Learning Objectives

The areas covered in this session include these learning objectives:

  • Basics of HIPAA privacy as applied to hospitals and employees
  • Examples of social media hipaa violations by health care workers
  • A detailed analysis of court cases involving hospital liability for employee HIPAA social media violations
  • Employment best practices for social media rules
  • Consequences for hipaa violations on social media
  • Basic tips and techniques to defend yourself from liability.

Background

  • HIPAA privacy and security in a health care setting
  • Duties and obligations of employees using social media under HIPAA
  • Legal actions against hospitals for their employee’s HIPAA violations

Why Should You Attend

This webinar examines the role of social media violations by employees of health care facilities, here a hospital. More importantly, how and when may a health care facility be liable for HIPAA violations of its employees?

Erase the fear, uncertainty, and doubt about how a hospital may – or may not – be liable for HIPAA violations by its employees.

Find out how two similar legal cases in state court involving hospital employees’ HIPAA violations can have quite different outcomes.

Who Should Attend

  • HIPAA privacy officers
  • Medical records workers
  • Health care attorneys