This advanced webinar answers the following questions: What power does the state have to use a HIPAA exception to confidentiality? How does one comply with a request when it does apply?

What medical or other records are obtained that apply to a civil or to a criminal investigation? What pitfalls are there to noncompliance? This webinar goes over the many law enforcement exceptions where health care practitioners are faced with demands for a law enforcement or public purpose that overrides the strict confidentiality of HIPAA and a patient’s expected right to privacy.

Both criminal and civil public purposes for law enforcement exceptions exist that may burden the health care practitioner with requests that must be complied with.

Take a deeper look into how state licensure agencies go about their unique government investigations and obtain protected health information to further their own state-mandated, investigative purposes.

Agenda:

• The basics of HIPAA privacy;
• The basics of HIPAA privacy exceptions with patient consent;
• Exceptions to HIPAA privacy for law enforcement purposes for civil matters;
• Exceptions to HIPAA privacy for law enforcement purposes for criminal matters;
• How exceptions to HIPAA privacy are applied by law enforcement agencies, with an emphasis on state licensure boards and agencies;
• How you may comply to a request for Protected Health Information when the patient is in trouble and law enforcement is involved;T
• How you may comply to a request for Protected Health Information when you are in trouble;
• Case law from the courts regarding HIPAA privacy exceptions for law enforcement purposes.