Is your hospital planning properly and complying to protect patient confidentiality?

Hospitals need to plan to protect the privacy, security, and integrity of data and the information it collects. Maintaining privacy has become much more challenging especially in the electronic era. Violation of the privacy standard can result in patients being able to sue, action by the Office of Civil Rights, enforcement by the state attorney general, compliance issue with both The Joint Commission and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and more. This has become more detailed in light of HITECH and recent federal laws. 

During this 90-minute webinar, nurse attorney Sue Dill Calloway will cover the 8 standards in The Joint Commission’s Information Management (IM) chapter which includes the capturing, storage and retrieval of data, monitoring data and health information management processes.  

Learning Objectives:

• Identify The Joint Commission Information Management chapter requirements.
• Discuss why the hospital must have a written policy addressing the privacy of health information.
• Describe why medical records must be accessible 24 hours a day.
• Explain why a hospital must have a policy on acceptable abbreviations.

Target Audience:

• Director of Health Information Management
• Medical Records staff
• Joint Commission coordinator
• Chief Nursing Officer
• Privacy Officer
• Chief Medical Officer
• Chief Operating Officer
• Nurse Managers
• Compliance Officer
• Nurse Educator

Meet Your Expert:

Sue Dill Calloway is a nurse attorney and medical-legal consultant. She has done many educational programs for nurses, physicians, and other health care providers. She has spoken internationally on patient safety, risk management, legal, regulatory, and CMS and Joint Commission issues. She has authored over a thousand articles and a hundred books including a book on the Compliance Guide to the Joint Commission, CMS Patient Rights Standards and a book on 2009 Joint Commission Leadership and many books on nursing law and nursing law and ethics.  

Her associate degree is from Central Ohio Technical College and Ohio State University. Her BA, BSN in Nursing, MSN in nursing (summa cum laude) and JD degree (law degree with honors) are from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.

Accreditation Statement:

AHC Media is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Credit Designation:

This activity has been approved for 1.5 nursing contact hours using a 60-minute contact hour.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # 14749, for 1.5 Contact Hours.

Sponsor:

The sponsor of this educational activity is AHC Media.

Recorded: Wednesday, November 2, 2011