Protecting Patient Privacy in a Not-So-Private World

Published by the Texas Hospital Association
Format: Available as downloadable PDF or hard-copy print version

THA Member Price: $59
Non-Member Price: $225

Hospitals and other HIPAA-covered entities continually face questions about the kinds of patient information they may disclose, and to whom. Both federal and state laws, which often are even more stringent than federal, dictate when and how a hospital can disclose patient information. With the proliferation of Facebook, blogs, camera phones, Flip Video™ cameras and other popular mobile, social communications, ensuring the privacy of patients is more challenging than ever. Yet, non-compliance can result in serious consequences for the hospital.
 
This guidebook gives hospitals tools to use immediately in understanding and applying privacy laws. You’ll learn how to handle release of information requests:

• For celebrities and high-profile patients;
• In disaster situations;
• With minors, prisoners and psychiatric patients;
• From clergy, law enforcement and hospital room delivery services; and
• Much more!

This comprehensive guidebook includes what you need to know about privacy rules in advertising, fundraising and social networks, along with sample policies and forms, case studies, self-assessment quizzes, and educational tools for use in in-service training.

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