Description
Join us to learn how to comply with the latest HIPAA, TCPA, and CMS Rules regarding PHI in emails, text messages, and personal devices.
Course Overview
Healthcare providers, health plans, and business associates need to follow a simple “3-Step Safeguard” for emails and text messages to avoid violating HIPAA rules. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) outlines a straightforward text messaging rule that providers frequently overlook.
When patients prefer, HIPAA-covered entities must use unencrypted emails and texts containing PHI to communicate with them. Similarly, HIPAA business associates who email or text individuals on behalf of a covered entity must follow the same rules.
This 90-minute webinar clearly explains these rules. We’ll go into great detail regarding your practice, discuss multiple examples and specific scenarios, and explain how to limit risks and utilize best practices. We’ll particularly emlasize how easily covered entities and business associates can prevent email and text message violations.
The webinar covers topics such as texting, emailing, encryption, medical messaging, voice data, personal devices, and associated risk factors.
Areas Covered
- How HIPAA defines PHI – it’s different and bigger than you might think
- When You Must Encrypt Emails and Text Messages with PHI
- When you must use Unencrypted Email and Text Messaging to communicate PHI to patients
- HIPAA Rules for Email & Text Messaging: Key Definitions, and the 3-Step Safeguard
- Texting and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)
- When and Why You Must Encrypt – HIPAA and CMS
- Tips for Enterprise-wide Compliance
Why Should you Attend?
Attend this webinar to learn how to comply with HIPAA, TCPA, and CMS Rules regarding PHI in emails and text messages. You will see how to use and document the “3 Step Safeguard” to protect your organization. You also will learn when emails and text messages with PHI must be encrypted.
Mr. Paul will derive from his experiences as an attorney in the areas of HIPAA privacy and security practice. More importantly, he will show you how to limit your risks by simply taking proactive steps and utilizing best practices.
Who Should Attend?
- Executive Management – all Covered Entities
- Compliance Committee – Covered Entity Board of Trustees
- Practice Managers – Covered Entities
- Chief Compliance Officer – all Covered Entities
- HIPAA Compliance Officials – Privacy and Security
- Covered Entity Owners and Senior Management
- Attorneys for Covered Entities – In-house and Outside Counsel
- Medical Record storage and retrieval vendors
- Coding, billing, and payment vendors
- Health Care Compliance Consultants
- Information Technology vendors
- Law firms
About the Instructor
Paul R. Hales, J.D., explains health information privacy and security law clearly in plain language. He is an attorney licensed to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, a graduate of Columbia University Law School, and a Senior Counselor of the Missouri Bar. Paul manages an international HIPAA privacy and security practice based in St. Louis. He wrote all content in The HIPAA E-Tool®, an Internet-based, complete HIPAA compliance solution with separate editions for Covered Entities, Business Associates, Health Plans, and Third Party Administrators.
