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Legal Risks in Social Media for Healthcare Providers
Date & Time: Thursday, July 26, 2012
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
Duration: 60 Minutes
Instructor: Chris Apgar
Location: Online
Price : $195.00
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Instructor Profile:
Overview: The purpose of this webinar is to review the use of social media by health care organizations to better assist patients and health plan members and more broadly communicate to patients, health plan members, families and the community. The risks associated with social media will be reviewed along with a social media policy and procedure and a social media plan. Also, the webinar will include tips regarding how to minimize social media risks and better education for health care organizations’ workforce members. Social media represents a low cost effective way to reach out to consumers of health care, industry colleagues and business-tobusiness customers. A number of health care organizations have implemented social media programs but many have also not through the adverse implications. Social media may represent one of the most significant risks to the unauthorized disclosure of patient information, especially if not managed with security in mind. It is important to roll out social media programs in a structure fashion rather than rolling out a program "because the competition is." Planning is key to significantly reducing risk to the organization and patients and should occur prior to rolling out a social media program. Even if a social media program has been rolled out without sufficient pre-planning, it does not mean it’s too late to develop that plan and communicate it to employees, physicians, case workers, marketing and communications and so forth.
Social media stretches beyond what many see as the common social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Social media programs should also address the use of web-based personal mail, blogs posted on websites and white papers that are written and published on the web for educational purposes. The organization needs a plan to reasonably ensure no identifiable patient information is included in the plethora of posting out there, even if it is a white paper outlining treatment practices related to the care of certain
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Social networking review
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Privacy and security threats related to social media (e.g., texting, webmail) Use and risks Legal consequences – HIPAA, HITECH Act, Oregon law,
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breaches What workforce members should know Summary and Discussion
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Chris Apgar, CISSP, CEO and President of Apgar & Associates, LLC and former HIPAA Compliance officer for Providence Health Plans, is a nationally recognized information security, privacy, national identifier, HIPAA & electronic health information exchange expert. He has over 13 years of experience assisting health care organizations comply with HIPAA, HITECH and other privacy and security regulations. Mr. Apgar also has assisted health care, utilities and financial organizations implement privacy and security safeguards to protect against organizational harm and harm to consumers. Mr. Apgar is a member of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) Board of Directors member and has served on the Board for more than six years. Mr. Apgar continues to Chair the Oregon & SW Washington Healthcare, Privacy and Security Forum for the 12th year. Mr. Apgar recently joined the State of California Office of Privacy Protection project team charged with developing educational material for health care providers, health plans and consumers regarding medical identity theft and prevention. He is also a member of the Oregon Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Advisory Commission. ...more
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