8/1/12 Healthcare Provider Disputes and Litigation
Presented by the American Conference Institute
Vorys partner Lisa Pierce Reisz spoke at the Healthcare Provider Disputes and Litigation conference on August 1.
Ms. Reisz sat on a panel discussion entitled, Developing a HIPAA Risk Assessment to Avoid Litigation Risk and provided insight on recent HIPAA and HITECH challenges and offered guests explanations regarding:
- Protecting against inadvertent and inappropriate disclosure of protected health information
- Conducting an accurate and thorough assessment of the potential risks and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic health records held by the provider
- Identifying all areas of noncompliance with HIPAA’s requirements
- Transforming privacy guidelines designed for paper records to electronic records
- Working with the IT department to ensure that proper firewalls and e-protections are in place
- Exceptions to HIPAA disclosure rules
- Navigating the regulatory waters in order to prepare for litigation when there is a break in protocol
- Understanding what health information is protected under HIPAA
- Reconciling federal privacy and security requirements with various state laws
- Analyzing the extent of civil and criminal sanctions for breach under HIPAA and its amendments
- Creating a valid authorization enabling private health information to be disclosed to an attorney
- Striking the appropriate balance between patient confi dentiality and legitimate use of health information for legal purposes
Attorneys & Professionals
Related Practices
- Health Care
- Health Care Litigation
- Privacy and HIPAA Compliance/Health Information Technology
- Privacy and Security of Health Information, HIPAA Compliance and Health Information Technology for Private and Public Providers
- Privacy and Security of Health Information, HIPAA Compliance and Health Information Technology for Private and Public Providers