This new webinar provides an overview of the core privacy requirements of HIPAA, the basics of which should be well-known and practiced by all health care practitioners. Then, the subject moves to the social media activities of health care practitioners – with a specific focus on the practice of nursing, which can include their own social media or the social media of others, such as a hospital or health care facility’s official social media.

This new webinar thus provides a brief summary of those basic HIPAA privacy protections then goes into detail on the many ways a health care provider may run afoul of the privacy exceptions via the use of social media. While not every kind of social media can be covered, the basic principles that words and photographs on any publicly accessible internet forum constitute a social media danger subject to a breach.

This privacy breach may occur in a variety of ways in the practice of nursing. As a consequence, recognized national organizations have come out with guidelines specifically for nurses on the dos and don’ts of social media.

In addition, actual disciplinary actions from state licensure boards will be reviewed. These are found in real life, actual, contested cases from state boards of nursing, which regulate the practice of nursing in any given jurisdiction.

This webinar will also cover examples of state laws that apply to licensed health care professionals that mandate confidentiality and will further examine how health care professionals’ licenses can be suspended or revoked for privacy violations in the course of using social media.  Finally, take a look at how the employment rules of the health care facility may impact the use of social media by the health care practitioner and are especially focused on the practice of nursing.

Learning Objectives:-

• The basics of HIPAA privacy requirements
• Guidelines from state boards of nursing on nursing and the use of social media
• Guidelines from national nursing organizations on nursing and the use of social media
• Perils of confidentiality breaches in a digital age
• How social media violations may occur by health care practitioners
• State disciplinary actions against nurses for HIPAA violations
• Core rules for employment policies

Why Should You Attend?

This new webinar goes over the specific pitfalls of HIPAA violations and confidentiality breaches by nurses in the health professions.  This webinar gathers and summarizes nursing guidelines and rules from recognized national nursing organizations as well as state boards of nursing.

This webinar focuses on the ways nurses and other health care professionals violate HIPAA confidentiality via social media.  Taking real-life disciplinary actions from state boards of nursing and other licensure boards, this informative webinar examines actual cases from those state licensure boards.  Disciplinary actions against nurses will be covered from actual, contested cases.

Standards and guidelines from national organizations will be reviewed – all with the goal of preventative action so as to help nurses and other health care professionals stay out of trouble. 

Finally, while state licensure board disciplinary action is one consequence of a privacy breach, employment policies provide the underlying basis for firing a nurse or health care practitioner. Examples of core rules for employment policies and “dos and don’ts” in an employment setting will cover this topic.

Who Should Attend?

• Health Care Attorneys
• Corporate Compliance Officers in Health Care
• Health Care Practitioners Who are covered Entities
• Law Enforcement Officers in Health Care Compliance
• Human Resources Offices and Managers in a Health Care Facility
• Nurses
• Attorney
• Compliance Officer
• CEO
• CFO
• Directors of Nursing