Safeguarding Protected Health Information: Legal and Practice Considerations
Tracking # 20-1219830
$13.00
What you'll learn
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Define PHI and recall the requirements for handling PHI, including business and individual responsibilities for use and disclosure of PHI.
- Identify the safeguards businesses who handle PHI must take to prevent inappropriate PHI disclosure.
- List the requirements of the Breach Notification Rule and when, and to who, must be notified of inappropriately disclosed PHI.
- Describe patient privacy regulations as they pertain to telehealth services and ePHI.
Course overview
Pharmacy staff, regardless of practice setting, must access patient health information on a daily basis in order to perform their jobs. It is critical that they act in accordance with the law when interacting with and sharing patient protected health information, or they could face action from their employer or their law, and their employer could face fines and lose the trust of the public. In order to prevent a breach in privacy, the pharmacy staff must understand privacy laws. This CE activity will provide in-depth coverage of healthcare privacy law, focusing on HIPAA, HITECH, ePHI, and Telehealth. It will provide a background and history of those laws, review who must comply and what the requirements are, and use case studies and examples to discuss appropriate and inappropriate disclosure of PHI. At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be confident in handling PHI in accordance with federal law and with appropriately reporting breaches of PHI. Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians will appreciate the requirements of businesses that handle PHI.
Subject areas
This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.
Florida Board of Pharmacy
Pharmacist
Registered Pharmacy Technician
Michigan Board of Pharmacy
Pharmacist
Pharmacist Special Volunteer
Pharmacy Technician
Pharmacy Technician Special Volunteer
New Hampshire Board of Pharmacy
Pharmacist
Disclosure statements
This activity was developed by AchieveCE free of any commercial support. Alex Evans, PharmD, MBA, faculty for this educational event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Pete Kreckel, planner for this educational event, also has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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