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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