Healthcare Providers and Social Networking: New Threat to Patient Privacy
Minimizing Liability for Unwitting Physician and Staff Breaches
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar with Q&A
This seminar will discuss the legal risks for healthcare providers using online social and business networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others. The panel will outline the risks for healthcare providers and discuss best practices to reduce breaches and minimize liability.
Outline
- Current uses and trends
- Risks of using social media
- HIPAA compliance
- Patient privacy and dignity
- Security concerns
- Control over content
- Blogs of doctors affiliated with healthcare system
- Best practices for protect privacy and minimize exposure
- Develop written policies
- Monitoring and policy enforcement
- Training
- Selectivity in accepting “friends” or “followers”
- Defining the role of physician in social networking strategy
- Management of use of social media tools by closed medical staffs and community-based physicians affiliated with hospital system
- Use of disclaimers
- Patient consent
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- Are disclaimers effective when inviting the healthcare community and patients to be a part of any online social networking?
- What are the best practices for healthcare providers to develop and implement policies regarding the use of social networking sites?
- What steps can healthcare providers take to protect patient privacy and ensure HIPAA compliance?
Faculty
Jo-Ellyn Sakowitz Klein
Senior Counsel
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Ms. Klein is a leading practitioner on privacy and data protection matters. She has focused on privacy and data... | Read More
Ms. Klein is a leading practitioner on privacy and data protection matters. She has focused on privacy and data protection law for almost 20 years. Ms. Klein devotes a substantial portion of her practice to assisting clients with issues arising under state and federal privacy, security and data breach notification laws and regulations. These include the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH), Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, and myriad state privacy, security and breach notification laws. She assists clients in navigating the intersection between federal privacy and data protection laws and state regimes such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA), the New York Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act) and the Nevada Privacy of Information Collected on the Internet from Consumers Act, as amended by Nevada Senate Bill 220 (NPICICA). Ms. Klein has examined privacy and data protection issues arising in settings ranging from hospitals to professional sports to the medical device industry to the telecommunications industry.
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Chris Apgar
Certified Information Systems Security Professional
Apgar & Associates
He is an expert on healthcare privacy, security, regulatory affairs and secure and efficient electronic health... | Read More
He is an expert on healthcare privacy, security, regulatory affairs and secure and efficient electronic health information exchange with over 19 years of experience in regulatory compliance.
CloseTim P. Tobin
Hogan Lovells
He concentrates on consumer protection matters with a particular focus on privacy and data security law. He counsels... | Read More
He concentrates on consumer protection matters with a particular focus on privacy and data security law. He counsels businesses on various Internet and e-commerce issues. He advises clients from all industry sectors on their privacy and data security obligations and on state and federal privacy laws and regulations.
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