Privacy Compliance and Technology in Healthcare

Posted on March 7, 2021 by Meghan in Blog

Privacy Compliance and Technology in Healthcare

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A Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is a practical business tool in your healthcare practice.

A PIA is an important tool that you can use to help you with project management.

It will help you anticipate risks to the project before it starts and avoid serious problems, wasted time and money.

The PIA process requires you to have written policies and procedures so that you can implement the project effectively and train your staff consistently.

Sometimes a PIA is a requirement of legislation. But it is always a best practice whenever you implement a project that includes personal health information.

Join Rafiki Technologies’ Naheed Shivji and Information Managers’ Jean L. Eaton for a guide to successfully keep your patients’ information safe, follow cyber security best practices, and comply with the requirements of the Health Information Act (HIA).

This on-line workshop will provide you with practical tips to plan your Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) amendment as well as a strategic cybersecurity checklist.

Who Should Attend?

Medical, dental, chiropractic, optometric, pharmacy practices in Alberta.
Clinic manager, privacy officer or administrative lead responsible for updating your Privacy Impact Assessment.
Healthcare provider

Join Naheed Shivji and Jean L. Eaton for a guide to your PIA completion and technology requirements

Thursday, March 18th, 2021

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM MT

Free Registration

Click the button below to register for the workshop!

Meet Naheed Shivji, Founder & President of Rafiki Technologies Inc.

Naheed has more than 20 years of experience in IT with expertise in the dental industry. He is a passionate entrepreneur helping companies understand and embrace technology and is always searching for business best-practices while giving back to the community.

Naheed works hands-on with his clients to develop winning IT strategies and smooth implementations. He is constantly learning and adapting to industry trends to maintain Rafiki Technologies’ position as a leading managed IT services company in Canada.

Meet Jean L. Eaton, BA Admin (Healthcare), CHIM, CC

Your Practical Privacy Coach and Practice Management Mentor with Information Managers Ltd.

Jean has helped hundreds of physicians, chiropractors, pharmacists, and other healthcare providers complete their Privacy Impact Assessment. She has visited hundreds of practices across Canada.

Jean helps independent healthcare practices with practice administration, privacy awareness, privacy breach management, and legislated regulation compliance in Canada.

Jean's career started as a receptionist and transcriptionist in a busy family medical walk-in practice. She moved into health records and health information management and hospital administration in hospitals, regional health authorities, cancer agencies across Canada and Alberta Health.

Now, Jean specializes her consulting practice to independent healthcare practices who want to start, grow, or improve their practice administration so that healthcare providers can focus on providing quality healthcare services. Jean provides training to businesses including healthcare on practical privacy and security best practices and privacy breach management.

If you are starting your new practice and need your first Privacy Impact Assessment, see our available consultation options here.

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“What is a Privacy Impact Assessment?”

Read the article and watch the short video now to take a look at what is a PIA, what will a PIA do for you, when you need a PIA, and what is the PIA process.

You can also listen to the Practice Management Nuggets podcast episode here.

“How Long Does it Take to do a New Privacy Impact Assessment?”

Ideally, you should start the Privacy Impact Assessment process 3- 6 months prior to your go-live date. Find out more by reading the article.

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Do You Use Employee Privacy and Security Policy and Procedure Checklist Templates?

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Jean Eaton in Blog

Why Do You Need Policy and Procedure Checklists for Onboarding and Exiting Employees?

There is much excitement when we welcome a new hire to our team and there are many administrative tasks that need to take place to get this individual up and running. An employee policy and procedure checklist will help!

Policies and procedures must be in writing, available to employees, and monitored to ensure that they are followed to protect patient privacy as required by our professional colleges and privacy legislation. Otherwise, you face all sorts of risks, including privacy breaches and other legal problems.

To ensure that onboarding a new employee is a smooth transition, it is imperative to follow a practical checklist procedure to make sure no important steps are missed. There are also many other managerial benefits to adopting this high-quality process:

Better job performance and satisfaction
Greater commitment to protecting privacy in the organization
Reduced stress and better staff retention

Employee Privacy and Security Policy and Procedure Checklist

Policies and procedures are reasonable safeguards to protect the personal and health information entrusted to us. But polices and good intentions alone are not enough; we also need to take action to ensure our policies are understood and are being followed by all our employees.

Training new and existing staff on privacy and security best practices is instrumental in making your healthcare practice a success and maintaining its fine reputation. Following a systematic approach to welcoming a new employee, transitioning an existing employee into a new position, or offboarding an employee who is exiting will guarantee that valuable privacy and security training and accesses are completed.

Read this Privacy Breach Nugget that explains what can happen if you don’t have these good practices in place. Do You Know Where Your Policies And Procedures Are?

New Employee Orientation / Onboarding

New employees are a welcome addition to any team and there is a vast amount of training that needs to take place from general procedures on how to handle phone calls to signing confidentiality oaths to becoming familiar with all policies and procedures, in addition to learning the everyday job duties for their own position.

Since privacy is good for business, we do not want to miss any important opportunities to train our new staff on privacy and security best practices. Using the Employee Privacy and Security Checklist will help facilitate training discussions and document the authorized accesses of each employee.

Existing Employees / Annual Review

The checklist will also act as a tool for each employee at their performance review. Provide positive feedback and observations of an employee’s successes in protecting personal information. Discuss opportunities for improvement, too. This is also a good time to review an employee’s current authorized role-based accesses and determine if any changes are needed to match the employee’s current job duties.

Ensure that the employee still has ‘tokens’ that they were given at the time of their hire, like identity badge, keys to the clinic or Alberta Netcare RSA fob.

Privacy and security best practices dictate that confidentiality oaths should be signed on an annual basis and annual privacy awareness and security refresher training should also be provided to all employees. In the event of a privacy incident or breach, it is imperative that a healthcare practice can prove by their documentation that regular privacy and security training is provided to their staff.

Transferring / Exiting Employees

When an employee transitions into a new role or is terminated, review and update the privacy and security checklist to ensure that access and permissions are appropriately modified or terminated.

Custodian Responsibility

Custodians have an obligation to ensure reasonable safeguards to protect the privacy and security of health information. This includes having appropriate policies and procedures in place, as well as demonstrating and documenting that you have implemented your plans. This is a requirement of professional college standards of practice and privacy legislation like the Health Information Act (HIA).

See the article Do You Know Where Your Policies And Procedures Are? to learn what can happen to you if you don’t have your employee training process well documented

The Employee Privacy and Security Checklist will make it easy for you to ensure your new hires, existing employees, and transferring or exiting employees are privacy and security compliant.

Download the FREE Report - Employee Privacy and Security Policy and Procedure Checklist Template

Your practice also needs to have policies and procedures that set out how you ensure the privacy, confidentiality, and security of the health information you collect, use, and disclose. Don't know which policies and procedures you need? Download the Privacy and Security Policies and Procedures Checklist below!

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Jean L. Eaton is constructively obsessive about privacy, confidentiality, and security expecially when it comes to the handling of personal health information. If you would like to discuss how I can help your practice, just send me an email. I am here to help you.

Jean L. Eaton
Your Practical Privacy Coach
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Do You Know Where Your Policies And Procedures Are?

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Jean Eaton in Blog

Do You Know Where Your Policies and Procedures Are?

This is a cautionary tale.

And it could save you a lot of embarrassment – even legal issues.

The way a healthcare provider collects, uses and discloses personal health information (PHI) is critical to an efficient healthcare practice.

It’s also required by legislation and professional college regulations and standards.

Policies and procedures must be in writing, available to employees, and monitored to ensure that they are followed. Otherwise, you face all sorts of risks, including privacy breaches and other legal problems.

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Don't let this happen to you!

Everyone in a healthcare practice — including front office staff, wellness practitioners and physicians and other custodians — must be aware of and follow these policies and procedures.

These policies and procedures also become the foundation of your privacy impact assessment (PIA).

That’s why, in this Privacy Breach Nugget, we’ll review a privacy breach investigation report from Alberta's Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC). Whether you have a new practice, or an existing practice, we have a number of services and resources designed to help you manage your practice in a way that not only meets legal requirements, but is streamlined and efficient, and keep your information secure.

What Happened

This report started with an employee suspected of accessing health information for an unauthorized purpose.

It started with at the clinic with a conflict between the employees and the employer.

An employee (Employee A) was on leave from her position at the clinic. Her access to the electronic medical record (EMR) was suspended during her leave.

Employee A wanted to access patient information to support her dispute with management. Over two months, Employee A used Employee B’s credentials to access patient records.

This action is in contravention of the Health Information Act (HIA) sections 27 and 28.

This is where this case becomes even more convoluted and, in fact, a better case study of what not to do.

Employee Dispute

Understanding the Health Information Act

The Health Information Act (HIA) requires the custodian (the physician, in this case) to take reasonable steps to maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect patient privacy as required by sections 60 and 63 of the HIA, and section 8 of the Health Information Regulation.

In November 2013, the clinic submitted a privacy impact assessment (PIA) to the OIPC prior to its implementation of an electronic medical record (EMR).

The PIA included written policies and procedures.

The letter to the OIPC accompanying the PIA was signed by two physicians, as well as Employee A who was the privacy officer at that time.

The physician named in the investigative report is not the current custodian at the clinic. The physician was hired in 2015 and therefore not a member of the clinic in 2013 and not involved in the initial PIA submission.

During the investigation, both employees indicated that the policies and procedures to protect patient privacy were in a binder in the clinic, but it was never used or shared with the staff.

Oaths of confidentiality may have been previously signed by the employees, but the documents could not be produced during the investigation.

Section 8 (6) of the Regulation states the ‘custodian must ensure its affiliates are aware of and adhere to all of the custodians administrative, technical, and physical safeguards in respect of health information.’

It’s common practice for clinics to require employees to sign confidentiality agreements and ensure that they receive patient privacy awareness training with regular updates.

But in this investigation, the employees said they never received privacy awareness training.

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Access To Patient Information

The employees also stated it was common practice at this clinic for individuals to not log off of their EMR account on the computers at the reception desks. It was common practice for other employees to access an open session to quickly perform a task in the EMR.

The investigator concluded that the physician was in contravention of the HIA section 63(1) which requires custodians to establish or adopt policies and procedures that would facilitate the implementation of the Act and regulations.

These specific findings were made:

The custodian failed to ensure the clinic employees were made aware of and adhered to the safeguards put in place to protect health information in contradiction contravention of section 8(6) of the regulation.
The custodian was in contravention of section 8(6) of the regulation which requires custodians to ensure that their affiliates are aware of and adhere to all of the custodian’s administrative, technical, and physical safeguards with respect to health information. It’s important to note any collection use or disclosure of health information by an affiliate of a custodian is considered to be the collection, use, and disclosure by the custodian.
The custodian failed to ensure the employee and the other clinic staff adhered to technical safeguards as required by section 60 of the HIA and section 8(6) of the regulations.

Privacy Breach Nuggets You Need to Know

Privacy breaches are in the news every day. The more you know how breaches can affect you allows you to be more proactive to prevent privacy breach pain.

Get Your Privacy Documents In Order

To protect yourself and your practice from patient privacy breaches (and massive fines, see the conclusion to this article), follow these steps.

Find your policies and procedures and review them with all staff and custodians. Make sure you document that this has been done.
Review and update your privacy awareness training and ensure all staff, including custodians, have completed this recently. Make sure you have this documented, including certificates of attendance if available.
Oath of confidentiality documents should be signed by all of all clinic staff and custodians and maintained in a secure location.
Review your privacy impact assessment and ensure all of your current custodians have read this and understand it. Visit this post for more information to help you determine if you need a PIA amendment.

Monitor

This incident occurred in 2016. The OIPC office did not recommend any additional sanctions against the clinic, physicians, or employees.

To get templates of policies and procedures for your healthcare practice, be sure to sign up for the Practice Management Success Membership

New Amendments To The HIA

This case might have turned out differently today.

New amendments, as of 2018, provide a provision for fines under the HIA ranging from $2,000 to $200,000.

The public — and our patients — expect and trust us to make sure that their personal health information is kept secure and confidential.

It’s our responsibility to make sure we have these administrative, technical, and physical safeguards in place and are maintained in a consistent fashion.

When you've done the hard work to implement your patient privacy policies and procedures and your privacy impact assessment, make sure you continue your journey and keep these documents up-to-date and current. To help you, sign up for the Practice Management Success Membership.

There are many patient privacy breaches in the news each day, and you never know when it could happen to you.

The more you know about the breaches and how they can affect you allows you to be more proactive to prevent privacy breach pain. If you need to prepare your privacy breach management plan, start your on-line training 4-Step Response Plan right away!

If you need templates of policies and procedures for your healthcare practice, be sure to sign up for the Practice Management Success Membership. These tips, tools, templates, and training will help you save time and money to develop and maintain policies and procedures in your healthcare practice.

When we know better, we can do better…

I’ve helped hundreds of healthcare practices prevent privacy breach pain like this. If you would like to discuss how I can help your practice, just send me an email. I am here to help you protect your practice.

PRIVACY BREACH NUGGETS are provided to help you add a ‘nugget' to your privacy education program. Share these with your staff and patients as a newsletter, poster, or staff meeting.

Jean L. Eaton, Your Practical Privacy Coach

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References and Resources

Alberta Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner. Investigation Report H2019-IR-01 Investigation into alleged unauthorized accesses and disclosures of health information at Consort and District Medical Society Clinic. May 21, 2019. https://www.oipc.ab.ca/media/996888/H2019-IR-01.pdf

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Why You Need Policies and Procedures

Posted on December 7, 2020 by Jean Eaton in Blog

Why You Need Health Information Policies and Procedures

Maybe you’ve heard you need written policies and procedures for your health information, but you’re left asking yourself why it’s so important?

The truth is, without written policies and procedures, you open a healthcare practice up to a whole host of problems, including major legal issues.

In fact, every business needs good practices that apply to your:

Information that you collect from patients/clients
Website
Email
Business practices including electronic (or paper) patient records, and computer network
Financial information
Billing, collection, and payment processing

Within the healthcare industry, there are additional legislation requirements that require specific written health information policies and procedures.

The Health Information Act (HIA) and the Personal Information Privacy Act (PIPA)

As we mentioned, when a custodian collects health information, you must follow the Health Information Act (HIA) in Alberta.

Like most other private businesses in Alberta, private healthcare practices must also comply with the Personal Information Privacy Act (PIPA).

The colleges of regulated health professionals (like the Alberta Dental Association and College (ADAC) and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA), require dentists and physicians to meet the standards of practice which includes compliance to HIA and PIPA legislation.

In addition, the college has other standards of practice that you must meet, including policies and procedures for the collection, use, disclosure, and access of health information.

So, let’s explore further why written policies and procedures are so essential, as well as what can happen without them, and why healthcare practices may not think they need them in the first place.

Benefits of Policies and Procedures

One of the most critical benefits of having policies and procedures in place is that they’re good for business.

Here’s how:

They contribute to consistent, efficient workflow.
You can figure it out once, write the procedure, tweak it to make it better, and then repeat the same procedure again and again.
They help you make better business decisions, like buying supplies, choosing services, and selecting vendors.
They help support your accreditation efforts.
On-boarding employees the right way with no missed steps is much easier with policies and procedures in place.

If you’re looking for even more proof of the benefits of having written procedures, it can also help you avoid:

Internal disputes within your team and external disputes with your patients and clients
Re-work and re-training employees
Poor customer service
Poor reputation
Fines and penalties

Fines And Penalties For Not Having Written Policies And Procedures

You might be wondering why you would face fines and penalties for not having written policies and procedures in the first place.

The HIA requires the custodian – which includes the dentist or dental hygienist – to take reasonable safeguards to protect the privacy and confidentiality of patients’ health information.

Having written policies and procedures is a common, expected, and reasonable safeguard.

Let’s say you have a privacy breach in your practice or an error (like sending a fax to the wrong number or you are a victim of a phishing or ransomware attack).

You can learn more about what makes a privacy breach a privacy breach here.

If you can’t demonstrate that you had the appropriate reasonable safeguards, like written policies and procedures in place, you are guilty of an offence under the law.

It’s illegal not to have policies and procedures when you collect health information.

If you are guilty of this offence, you are liable for a fine of a minimum of $2,000 and not more than $500,000. (HIA section 107(7)).

3 Policies and Procedures Myths

One reason some healthcare practices fail to have written policies and procedures is because they believe they don’t need them.

Often, this is because they’ve fallen prey to the common myths about policies and procedures.

There are 3 of the common myths that stop healthcare providers and their clinic managers from creating written policies and procedures:

It’s Too Hard

While it does take some skill to write clear, easy to read, and easy to understand policies and procedures, it doesn’t have to be heard. In fact, you can even purchase templates to make this easier.

It Takes Too Much Time

Writing policies and procedures does take some time.

But investing the time to create policies and procedures pays off by preventing suffering from inconsistent or broken procedures, using or disclosing health information in error, and having to pay fines, penalties, public relations nightmares, or spending the time required to run a privacy or security investigation.

It’s A Waste Of Time

Here are a few good reasons that prove writing policies and procedures is not a waste of time:

Practical privacy policies and procedures will create a more efficient practice and help you make better business decisions.
The policies and procedures become the foundation of your privacy impact assessment.
Policies and procedures are pre-requisites for other initiatives, like access to Netcare or other community integration initiatives, and privacy impact assessment (PIA). Click here to learn more about PIAs.
You must have them as part of your legislative compliance.
It’s the law. Not having policies and procedures regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and access of health information is illegal.

As you can see, written policies and procedures help ensure consistent office procedures and good communication between team members in your healthcare practice.

In addition to those good reasons, you must have good written policies and procedures about how you collect, use, disclose, and provide access to health information to avoid legal problems, fees, penalties, and other problems.

Not Sure Which Policies and Procedures That You Need?

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5 Low Cost Steps You Can Take Now To Prevent Employee Snooping In Healthcare And Prevent Privacy Breach Pain

Posted on October 22, 2020 by Meghan in Blog

Healthcare Employers, Privacy Officers Need To Prevent Employee Snooping

Human curiosity, interpersonal conflicts, shaming or bullying or financial gains are common motivators for snooping. We seem to be hard-wired to want to peek into someone else’s personal and private information. Snooping is a violation of trust between our patients and the healthcare providers and the people who work for them.

We want our patients to trust us. We need the patients to share their personal information with us so that we can provide the appropriate health services to them. When healthcare providers and employees snoop in our patient’s information we destroy that trust with the patient. When one of our team members is snooping, it harms the effectiveness of our teams and damages morale in the clinic.

When employees are snooping in personal health information, it costs the employer time and money.

What Is Snooping?

Looking at someone’s personal information without having an authorized purpose to access that information to do your job is known as ‘snooping’.

Even when you are “just looking” at personal information but don’t share that information with anyone else, this is still a privacy breach.

It is illegal.

Snooping incidents are on the rise and can cost you time, money, heartache, and headache in your practice.

When there is an offence under the privacy legislation like the Health Information Act, there may be an investigation, charges and court appearances, fines, penalties, and loss of employment.

Snooping is entirely preventable. You can easily use the 5 low cost steps to prevent employee snooping in your healthcare practice.

How Can You Prevent Employee Snooping?

Let’s take a look at the pro-active steps that you can take today to prevent employee snooping.

Step 1. Be A Privacy Champion

The first step is to be a privacy champion. Everyone can be a privacy champion in your role in your practice. Make sure that you understand the legal and regulatory obligations about privacy and how it affects your health care practice and your patients is an important step.

In addition, each practice should have a named privacy officer who is responsible for the accountability and management of privacy compliance in your practice. In fact, simply having a named privacy officer increases the likeliness of spotting and responding to a privacy breach more quickly than a practice that does not have a privacy officer.

The privacy officer will also ensure that there are appropriate policies and procedures related to the correct collection, use, and disclosure of health information – and appropriate monitoring and enforcement when snooping is suspected.

Step 2. Train Privacy Awareness

Healthcare practices must provide privacy awareness training to all of their employees at their orientation and not rely on the assumption that the employees have learned about privacy awareness in their previous roles.

When the training includes examples of snooping and clear expectations about the potential consequences and sanctions, you have set the stage to define the culture that snooping is not acceptable. Unfortunately, there are many examples of snooping privacy breach incidents in the news. When you discuss these examples, you can increase privacy awareness and learn from someone else's privacy breach.

Use These Examples as part of your training to inform employees about the consequences of snooping
Snooping Conviction Earns 3 Years’ Probation
Recent Privacy Breach Convictions Under Alberta’s Health Information Act

Step 3. Reasonable Safeguards

Implementing reasonable safeguards makes it easier for people to do the right thing and avoid the temptation of snooping.

There are three types of safeguards.

Administrative. Written policies, procedures, training, and oaths of confidentiality are examples of administrative safeguards. When there are clear, written, expectations about privacy and confidentiality, including snooping, we are more likely to achieve positive privacy practices.

Technical. This often includes security related to computers. For example, making sure that we have role-based access to systems and personal health information supports the need to know principle. Computer networks and electronic medical record systems that have user management audit logging and enforce unique user ID are other examples about technical safeguards that allows us to prevent and monitor snooping incidents.

Physical. Restricted access to paper records, ensuring that documents are shredded appropriately are examples of physical safeguards that can prevent employee snooping.

Step 4. Monitor to Prevent Snooping

Knowing that their supervisor, co-worker, or privacy officer is observing their interactions with personal information may help to deter employees from snooping.

The supervisor or privacy officer may routinely monitor user audit logs of systems containing personal information to search for unusual activity or pro-active review of users looking up patient information with the same last name or access to VIP records.

Listen to the podcast, How AI Improves EMR Auditing | Episode #094 to learn about an easy way to perform user monitoring and quickly recognize risks from external bad actors and employee snooping incidents!

Step 5. Consequences When Employees Snoop

Well documented and implemented consequences is step 5 to prevent snooping incidents.

Written sanctions and discipline policy are required both as a deterrent to snooping and to facilitate the quick response to a privacy incident.

When proactive measures fail, consequences may be appropriate. The consequences need to be reasonable, consistent across all providers and employees, and fair to the circumstances.

Written sanctions and discipline policy are required both as a deterrent to snooping and to facilitate the quick response to a privacy incident.

Snooping is a privacy breach, and it will require investigation and reporting. Your written privacy breach policies, procedures and forms will help you to respond quickly to a snooping incident.

Sanctions might also be applied outside of the organization. When a privacy breach is reported to the OIPC or a privacy complaint is made to the OIPC, charges may be laid under the HIA.

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Privacy and Security In Telehealth Summit

Posted on October 5, 2020 by Jean Eaton in Blog

Growth in telehealth has exploded in 2020 – and so have the privacy and security risks!

46% of consumers are now using telehealth to replace cancelled healthcare visits¹.
Providers have rapidly scaled offerings and are seeing 50 to 175 times the number of patients via telehealth than they did before².
90% of patients prefer telemedicine over in-office visits³.

At the same time, we have seen:

80% of security breaches caused by stolen or brute forced credentials.
Individual’s COVID-19 testing status and contact tracking inadvertently released to the public.
Unsecure video conferencing exposing personal information to others.

When you properly balance the opportunities of telehealth with safeguards to protect the privacy and security of our patients’ health information, you can:

Improve patient access to healthcare and patient satisfaction;
Develop viable new business models;
Maintain and improve patient relationships;
Implement flexible staffing employment models to respond to the demands of the pandemic.

Announcing Virtual Health Privacy Summit

In this Virtual Health Privacy Summit, we’re going with TED-style talks – short, engaging presentations from industry experts on compelling topics that are important to your clinic, practice, or business.

This event is ideal for chiropractors, physiotherapists, doctors, dentists, dental hygienists, dental assistants, dental technicians, receptionists, treatment coordinators, practice managers, privacy officers, or owners of a healthcare practice.

Privacy and Security In Telehealth Summit

Wednesday October 21, 2020

Keynote – Dr. Kale Matovich
Natural Way Chiropractic

The Phoenix Plan: How Our Chiropractic Practice Uses Telehealth to Support Our COVID Recovery

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected the way chiropractors provide care to their patients. Dr. Kale Matovich will share his experiences of implementing telehealth solutions as an unconventional, yet essential, component of both patient care and business recovery at Natural Way Chiropractic.

Dr. Angela Mulrooney
Unleashing Influence

Pivoting To Online Possibilities

COVID-19 has shoved us into the future of technology-adoption in healthcare. If you don’t level up and get with the advancements, you will be left behind. Angela will discuss the best innovations and how you can make the most of them in your healthcare practice to ensure online income during shutdowns and into the future of your practice.

Anne Genge
Alexio Corporation

Easy and Affordable Ways to Dramatically Increase Your Security Online

“Anne takes difficult concepts and makes then interesting and understandable for everyone” (Maggie S. – attendee: Privacy & Security for Office Managers Course 2019)

Who is this for? This talk is designed for all people working with computers and will give you excellent strategies for your office and home use.

Most people have antivirus on their computers but breaches, data theft, and ransomware keep happening. Learn why, and learn how a few tweaks to how you’re working can make an exponential difference to the security of your patient and personal data.

Jean L. Eaton
Information Managers Ltd.

Practical Telehealth Privacy Tips For Your Practice

Your Practical Privacy Coach, Jean L. Eaton, will share practical privacy tips you need to know to implement your telehealth program including:

Patient on-boarding;
Informed consent to telehealth notice; and
How to easily document telehealth encounters in your practice.

Lauren Sergy
Up Front Communication

The Keys to Buy-In: How to Get Staff and Patients On Board With New Practices and Processes

Changing how we work can be difficult. No matter what it is you’re changing – shifting your privacy practices, engaging in telehealth, or implementing some other new process – getting buy-in from staff, partners, and patients is crucial to the success of your initiative. In this fascinating session, communication and speaking expert Lauren Sergy will take you on a high-level look at how persuasion works, revealing key strategies to getting the buy-in and commitment you need from your staff.

This is the second summit from Canada's Health Privacy Summit.

People are talking about the Canadian Health Privacy Summit!

“Absolutely great and informative summit :)”

“This was the best presentation on this topic that I have heard in the 50 years that I have practiced.”

“Great opportunity for those of us who are in the dental industry to learn about issues related to digital information security”

“A lot of information packed into an afternoon with an opportunity to learn more and connect with the presenters made this a valuable learning experience. Looking forward to the next summit. Thank you!”

References:

(1, 2) McKinney COVID-19 Consumer Survey, April 17, 2020. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/telehealth-a-quarter-trillion-dollar-post-covid-19-reality#

(3) Dr. Mike Greiwe, Practice Management Nuggets, 2020 September 22, https://practicemanagementnuggets.live/why-medical-practices-will-have-to-offer-telemedicine/

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The Health Privacy Summit is a Champion of online safety and data privacy. This #CybersecurityAwareness Month we're hosting the Privacy and Security In Telehealth Summit October 21! #BeCyberSmart @StaySafeOnline @Cyber #vhps2020

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Keeping Privacy Active in the Minds of Clinic Staff

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Meghan in Blog

As an employer and health care provider, you are responsible to provide training to all of your employees about privacy awareness. If you don’t provide the training, if the employees don’t understand the policies and there is a privacy breach, then the healthcare provider is more likely to be held accountable under the legislation and face penalties including fines and even prison!

Protect your organization and your patients. Equip your staff with the information they need to confidently and correctly handle personal health information. Healthcare businesses who want employee and supervisor level privacy awareness training to support key policies, procedures and risk management programs need a privacy awareness training program.

How do you keep privacy active in the minds of your clinic staff?

Below are a number of simple, low-cost tips that you can use right away to build privacy awareness training in your practice.

Start a privacy awareness training program

The super-easy way to start a simple privacy awareness training program in your organization is to start with your Health Information Privacy and Security Policies and Procedures Manual. Take one policy or procedure a week or month, circulate it for review, and then circulate a short follow-up quiz specific to your organization.

If you circulate the quiz by email, depending on which email service you use, you may be able to use the built-in poll feature. You send out the question and in the poll, your team replies with the best answer. That way, you also build in a way to document that people received and responded to your quiz.

Listen to podcasts or watch YouTube videos on privacy awareness during a team meeting

Practice Management Nuggets For Your Healthcare Practice is a regular interview series with practice managers, healthcare providers, or trusted vendors who support healthcare practices. Topics include things you need to know to help you start, grow, fix, or maintain your healthcare practice. The events will be short – about 30 minutes – with nuggets of information that you can use right away. You can listen to these interviews as a podcast or watch them on YouTube.

Recent training topics have included:

Take a Privacy Awareness Training course as a team

Regular privacy awareness training protects patients, employees, and your business.

Privacy Awareness in Healthcare Online Training and Privacy Awareness in Health Care Training – Dental Practices are online courses offered by Corridor Interactive.

In the course best fit for your practice, you and your staff will learn:

Understand patient and client privacy rights.
Respect personal health information and your obligations.
Confidently and correctly handle personal health information.
Use reasonable safeguards to protect personal health information (PHI).
Recognize and respond to a privacy breach
Support key policies, procedures and risk management programs in your healthcare practice.

Become a Practice Management Success member

Practice Management Success is an online community with tips, tools, and templates you can use right away to start, grow, fix, or maintain your healthcare practice. Membership is open to all healthcare practices of any size. Members have access to online resources and networking and support from other clinic managers, practice managers, and healthcare providers in independent community practices!

When you are a member of Practice Management Success, you also have access to the Q&A With Jean training library.Use these privacy awareness training videos where you can select the topics that are of interest to your practice. Each Q&A recording includes training (usually 10-30 minutes), and most have training notes or resources that you can download and use right away.

Members also have access to Policy and Procedure Orientation For Your Employees training videos.

Subscribe to Privacy Nuggets Newsletter

Privacy Nuggets are posted on the Information Managers blog and also sent to you by email when you subscribe to the Privacy Nuggets newsletter. These articles explore recent privacy breaches and provide a training tip on how to prevent a similar breach from happening in your practice and tips on how to respond to a similar privacy breach incident. You are welcome to share the articles and emails with your team and use this as a training tool, too!

CyberSecurity Awareness Month

The line between our online and offline lives is indistinguishable. In these tech-fueled times, our homes, societal well-being, economic prosperity and nation’s security are impacted by the internet.

The overarching theme for Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2020 is “Do Your Part. #BeCyberSmart.” The theme empowers individuals and organizations to own their role in protecting their part of cyberspace, with a particular emphasis on the key message for 2020: “If you connect it, protect it.” If everyone does their part – implementing stronger security practices, raising community awareness, educating vulnerable audiences or training employees – our interconnected world will be safer and more resilient for everyone.

Information Managers Ltd has been a Cyber Security Champion for many years – and now you can, too!

Cyber Security Awareness Month was launched by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) & the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in October 2004. This US organization sponsors a multi-media resource campaign each October.

Become a Champion

You can become a Champion, too – and get direct access to all the resources.

Demonstrate to team the importance of cyber security at work.
Share with your patients – by posters in your practice, blog posts, or your email newsletters – and demonstrate that your practice is cyber aware and you want to share tips with them.
If you have team members who work remotely, work from home, use their own mobile devices, or use the internet to connect with apps and resources – give them additional skills to do their work as safely as possible.
Help your team members better manage their own personal information in their personal lives – good habits that will help them at work, too!

Becoming a Champion is easy and does not require any financial support. Become a Champion here https://staysafeonline.org/ncsam/champions/.

Throughout October, NCSA will focus on the following areas in our promotions and outreach. Partners are welcome to follow along with NCSA but also encouraged to create their own areas of focus relevant to their organization:

There is a #BeCyberSmart theme for each week in October.

October 1 and 2: Official kick-off for the month

Week of October 5 (Week 1): If You Connect It, Protect It

Week of October 12 (Week 2): Securing Devices at Home and Work

Week of October 19 (Week 3): Securing Internet-Connected Devices in Healthcare

Week of October 26 (Week 4): The Future of Connected Devices

Watch for resources from Information Managers during Cyber Security Month.

When we know better, we can do better…

Jean Eaton is constructively obsessive about privacy, confidentiality, and security especially when it comes to the handling of personal health information. If you would like to discuss how I can help your practice, just send me an email. I am here to help you.

Jean L. Eaton
Your Practical Privacy Coach
INFORMATION MANAGERS

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Merging Your Healthcare Practice – PIA Considerations

Posted on August 3, 2020 by Meghan in Blog

Merging Your Healthcare Practice – PIA Considerations

Mergers and acquisitions and closing and consolidating are activities that healthcare practices undertake at various times in the life cycle of a business.

There are many reasons why a practice may consider buying or acquiring an existing healthcare practice.

You might be expanding your practice to rapidly expand the scope of your services, location, or space. Or you might be downsizing your practice. Or maybe you're merging multiple practices into one streamlined practice so you can better manage your profit margins.

You might be looking to diversify your services or, perhaps, create an area of super-specialty that will provide a competitive advantage for your healthcare practice.

You might be wanting to acquire skilled employees or healthcare providers that you couldn't recruit in your current circumstances.

You might be acquiring or consolidating real estate infrastructure, medical equipment or electronic medical records, computer networking, or perhaps the management team. Or you might be exploring opportunities for economies of scale or cost-cutting.

As a custodian (including physicians, pharmacists, dentists, chiropractors, nurse practitioners, optometrists, and more) you need to ensure that the patient's health information remains private and secure, and that patients have continued access to their health information.

Thinking about merging your healthcare practice? Important privacy impact assessment steps for you to consider. #PIA #Privacy #ProtectYourPracticeClick to Tweet

5 Important Steps Before You Merge Or Close Your Healthcare Practice To Ensure Your Continued Privacy Compliance

Inventory All Your Existing Patient Records
Patient Records Systems
Agreements
Existing Documents
Privacy Impact Assessment Amendment Plan

Read the full article below!

Or listen to the podcast here

Inventory All Your Existing Patient Records

When you assume a new practice, you need to know where all the patient records are maintained. If you are closing your practice, you need to ensure the continued security and access of patient records to the patient.

To do this, you need to know which patient records are included in the practice. Create an inventory of the existing patient records.

Remember that you must meet the records retention period (which often is 10 years plus the age of majority) for all the patient records. Make sure that you are meeting the records retention periods and that you have correctly inventoried all of the patient records. This includes all locations and record types including paper, off-site storage, and records that have been backed up to an electronic drive or a separate memory device.

Include all types of patient records – including appointment records, appointment books or electronic scheduling software, billing records, paper records, diagnostic medical devices, electronic medical records and audit logs.

When you assume a new practice, you need to know where all the patient records are maintained.

Patient Records Systems

Make sure that you review all the existing patient record systems – electronic medical record, billing systems, records storage, etc. – and the associated termination clauses with the vendors. If you need to transfer the management of patient records between custodians or to a different system, you need to thoroughly explore the data migration and archiving options and the associated costs.

Remember, you must maintain the complete patient record – including the clinic notes, test results reporting, task management, internal messaging, and audit logs – for the entire retention period. Often, exporting a patient record to a PDF file format does not include the complete patient record. Instead, you may need to maintain a read-only version of the electronic medical record.

Agreements

Collect all the existing agreements between the custodians and the vendors and stakeholders with whom the custodian has authorized the collection, use, and disclosure of patients’ health information. This may include the EMR vendor, billing agent, custodians, Primary Care Network, and successor custodian agreements.

Existing Documents

Request a copy of the existing documents that support the business of managing the patient records, including the health information privacy and security policies and procedures and privacy impact assessments. This will help you to respond to inquiries about previous patient records management practices and assist you in preparing your next privacy impact assessment.

Privacy Impact Assessment Plan

Consider the history of the current practices and plan your new operations plan. Complete a risk assessment to ensure the appropriate reasonable safeguards of previous, current, and future patient health information. Then, complete a Privacy Impact Assessment and update the Health Information Management Privacy and Security Policies and Procedures. In Alberta, the Health Information Act (HIA) requires the custodian(s) to submit the Privacy Impact Assessment to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) for review prior to implementing new practices.

If you want to know more about Privacy Impact Assessments with step by step instruction, training, and mentoring, register for the on-line training, Protect Your Practice, Your Assets, and Your Patients with Privacy Impact Assessments.

Related Resources

Watch these Practice Management Nuggets For Your Healthcare Practice Videos:

When You Close Your Healthcare Practice on YouTube
What to Consider Before Sub-Leasing on YouTube

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Top 3 Agreements Your Healthcare Practice MUST Have (and Why)

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CHIMA’s Emerging Privacy Management Practices in Health Care series

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Meghan in Blog

Emerging Privacy Management Practices in Health Care

I'm tickled pink to be the facilitator for CHIMA's new continuing education series.

The Canadian Health Information Management Association (CHIMA) recently launched a live, 5-part privacy series, Emerging Privacy Management Practices in Health Care, beginning on August 6, 2020.

Telehealth and virtual care implementation has advanced 10 years in the last 3 months in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This series covers the critical aspects of implementing modern privacy management practices in your health care organization. This series is suitable for individuals with privacy-related roles (e.g., managers, vendors, or employees) across the continuum of health care (e.g., acute, primary, long-term or community care).

Each module will cover a privacy-related topic area including privacy awareness, release of information (ROI), access and disclosure, security/cybersecurity, and breach management. Environment overviews are shared throughout the series along with new opportunities for health information professionals in both traditional and emerging roles. By keeping current with these trends, health information professionals will be better prepared to assume new roles within privacy management.

Attend the live webinars to participate in a Q&A period with series facilitator and industry expert Jean L. Eaton.

Learn more at echima.ca/privacy-series

Speakers:

Jean L. Eaton, Your Practical Privacy Coach and Practice Management Mentor with Information Managers Ltd.

Jean L. Eaton is a Certified Health Information Management (CHIM) professional, and privacy awareness training facilitator.

She has had the honour of sharing her passion for practical privacy and confidentiality advice with hundreds of medical clinics, health care practices, and organizations across Canada and the United States.

Jean has over 20 years of experience in health information management and health care administration and over 15 years in her independent privacy consulting practice. She makes practical recommendations for thousands of independent health care providers to help them comply with privacy legislation and create efficient practices.

Jean is also a keynote speaker on the topic of privacy breach management and serves as an on-demand ‘virtual privacy officer’.

The live webinars will occur on the first Thursday of each month from August to December.

Module	Date	Time
1. Privacy awareness	August 6, 2020	12:00 – 1:30 pm EST
2. Release of information	September 3, 2020	12:00 – 1:30 pm EST
3. Access and disclosure in patient portals, information sharing, and health information exchange environment	October 1, 2020	12:00 – 1:30 pm EST
4. Security/cybersecurity	November 5, 2020	12:00 – 1:30 pm EST
5. Privacy breach management	December 3, 2020	12:00 – 1:30 pm EST

Purchase Your Series Pass Here!

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Privacy Awareness in Healthcare Training: Dental Practices

Posted on June 15, 2020 by Meghan in Blog, Services

NEW! Privacy Awareness in Healthcare Training – Dental Practices

Privacy Awareness Training for Dental Practices

Is your dental clinic in compliance with the Alberta Dental Association & College, Health Information Act (HIA) and Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA)?

Dentists and dental practices in Alberta are required to have an ongoing privacy program to ensure the protection of private records and patient information. The appropriate collection, use, and disclosure of personal information is critical to maintaining privacy for patients that choose to trust in your practice. Accomplishing this important goal demands an up-to-date training strategy.

Regular privacy awareness training protects patients, employees and your business. The key components of your training strategy must revolve around ensuring HIA compliance to mitigate risk of a privacy breach. Everyone in your clinic – dentists, dental assistants, dental hygienists, office staff, contractors and even practicum students and volunteers must understand how to correctly handle personal information, so it remains confidential and secure. Maintaining high standards that safeguard information privacy and security is an essential aspect of asset management for any health care provider.

Corridor Interactive's training includes a personalized printable certificate of achievement to support compliance and may be used for your continuing education credits, too! Our training delivers industry best practices and is ideal for all levels of staff in any dental organization or clinic that collects, uses or discloses personally identifying information. This includes direct care providers in your practice as well as privacy officers, support staff and any other employees who are not directly involved in patient care.

Corridor’s Privacy Awareness Training for Dental Practices educates dentists, dental assistants, dental hygienists, and all office staff on:

Understanding Privacy
Privacy Principles
Collection, Use & Disclosure
Roles & Responsibilities
Privacy Breaches
Right of Access
Safeguards
What is “Health Information”
Handling Personal Sensitive Health Information

If You Are A

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You Need Privacy Awareness in Healthcare Training – Dental Practices

You will

Understand patient and client privacy rights.
Respect personal health information and your obligations.
Confidently and correctly handle personal health information.
Use reasonable safeguards to protect personal health information (PHI).
Recognize and respond to a privacy breach
Support key policies, procedures and risk management programs in your healthcare practice.

Interactive Online Learning Experience provided by Corridor Interactive

Corridor Interactive’s Buy Now Training Programs give you access to the most current information available, at your convenience. Complete your course all at once, or in multiple sessions from any location – it’s up to you. All you need is an internet connection and an email address to get started…it’s that easy!

Fits into your schedule – you can start, pause at anytime, and return to the course exactly where you left off.
Easy to use – navigation buttons makes it easy to continue to the next topic or pick and choose the order that you want to see the content.
Get started immediately – the entire course is ready for you!
Work at your own pace – you have access to the course for three (3) months. Most students complete the course in under 2 hours.
You can listen to the narration for each module.
Practical examples, too, to make it easier for you to apply what you have learned in the course to your job.
Links to extra resource material and websites related to your topic of study, to peruse at your convenience.
A printable Certificate of Completion, available as soon as you successfully complete your course.
An audit trail and record of your course activity and training history.
Self-directed learning features including the ability to pause your course at any time and resume later, right from where you left off.
Unlimited access to your course and resources for the duration of your subscription term.
Technical support with a one-business day turnaround for end-user support help and questions.
Automatic emails when you complete your course, or reminders if you have not completed.

Developed by Corridor’s team of seasoned software specialists and instructional designers, this unique online learning application is the optimum vehicle for delivering learning content.

$30 per subscription

Give your staff the knowledge and tools they need to apply policy in their day-to-day work AND prevent a privacy breach with privacy awareness training.

Privacy Awareness in Healthcare Training – Dental Practices

Protect your organization and your patients. Equip your staff with the information they need to confidently and correctly handle personal health information. Learn basic healthcare privacy principles and how to handle personal health information, use safeguards, and recognize and report a privacy breach.

Sounds great! Sign me up!

This self-paced on-line education includes:

9 Modules
6 Quizzes
2 Case Studies
Final Exam

Certificate of Completion

“When we know better, we can we do better.”

As an employer and health care provider, you are responsible to provide training to all of your employees about privacy awareness. Protect your organization and your patients. Equip your staff with the information they need to confidently and correctly handle personal health information.

I am constructively obsessive about privacy and confidentiality in the healthcare sector–and I think you should be, too! I designed this course to assist healthcare providers, clinic managers, practice managers, privacy officers and independent healthcare practice owners provide practical privacy awareness training that was easy to implement, consistent content, cost-effective and meaningful to your day-to-day business.

When each member of your independent healthcare practice completes this privacy awareness course, you will have clearer expectations and confidence that your team will maintain the privacy, confidentiality and security of your patient’s health information. Give your patients the gift of privacy. Improve your healthcare practice with privacy awareness education.

Jean L. Eaton, Your Practical Privacy Coach Information Managers Ltd.

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I access the course?

The course, Privacy Awareness in Healthcare Training – Dental Practices is available on-line from any internet enabled device. You can use your desktop computer, smart phone or tablet to view the slides and even hear the narration.

How long is the course?

Most students complete the course in under 3 hours. You can start and stop the course at any time. Let's say you decide to take 20 minutes each day to work on the course. You can login and start the course right away. When you come back to the course the next day, you can start right from where you left off. You will have all the modules and the post-test done within 6 days. Don't worry about missing a few days – you have access to the course for a full 3-months!

This is my first job in a dental practice. Do I know enough to start the course?

You bet! The course is easy to read and I explain all the terms that you need to know. There are a lot of practical examples, too, to make it easier for you to apply what you have learned to your job.

I've worked in healthcare for a long time. Do I still need to take this course?

You bet! Seasoned professionals like yourself have an extra obligation to share your knowledge with new workers. This course will help you to refresh key principles and suggest wording, examples, and key messages that you can use to train new employees to their specific tasks in the workplace. The course will help you to advocate for the privacy rights of your patients. Unfortunately, we have many examples where trained professionals who “should have known better” make errors in judgement causing privacy breaches that affect our patients, our business, and the reputation of healthcare. Healthcare practitioners and owners have a responsibility to ensure that everyone in the practice receive comprehensive privacy awareness training regularly.

Will I get a certificate of completion that I can give my employer?

Yes – at the end of the course, you will have the opportunity to complete a short on-line quiz to confirm that you understand the key concepts. Then you will have access to a Certificate of Completion that you can download and share with whomever you choose.

Can I get continuing education credits with my professional association?

Maybe! If you are a member of a professional association and you would like to seek credits from for taking this course, please let us know so we can take steps to request pre-approval. Often, professional association and colleges will grant continuing education (CE) credits based on your certificate of completion.

How much is the course?

The course is $30 per individual 3 month subscription. Click here to buy it right away.

I think everyone in my healthcare practice should take this course! Can I buy in a group package?

Yes – Privacy Awareness in Healthcare Training – Dental Practices is available in group packages, or it can be customized to incorporate your organization’s privacy policy and practices. Employers can monitor the employee’s training progress and receive a report of employee’s satisfactory completion of on-line quizzes. Track annual privacy awareness training through our online platform to demonstrate your compliance with legislation. Contact Corridor Interactive for more information.

I agree that privacy awareness training is important - but I don't work in healthcare. Do you have a corporate privacy awareness program?

While these programs have been developed with health care providers in mind, the privacy principles and fundamentals of protecting personal information are appropriate for any organization that collects, uses, and discloses personally identifying information. Contact us for information about our Corporate Privacy Awareness Program!

Interested in Group Training?

Employers can also purchase training for groups of employees; employees can access the internet based training at a time and location convenient to them. Employers can monitor the employee’s training progress and receive a report of employee’s satisfactory completion of on-line quizzes. Track annual privacy awareness training through our online platform to demonstrate your compliance with legislation.

Email Corridor Interactive to Order Group Training

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Privacy Compliance and Technology in Healthcare

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Who Should Attend?

Meet Naheed Shivji, Founder & President of Rafiki Technologies Inc.

Meet Jean L. Eaton, BA Admin (Healthcare), CHIM, CC

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References and Resources

Why You Need Health Information Policies and Procedures

The Health Information Act (HIA) and the Personal Information Privacy Act (PIPA)

Benefits of Policies and Procedures

Fines And Penalties For Not Having Written Policies And Procedures

3 Policies and Procedures Myths

Not Sure Which Policies and Procedures That You Need?

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Healthcare Employers, Privacy Officers Need To Prevent Employee Snooping

What Is Snooping?

How Can You Prevent Employee Snooping?

Step 1. Be A Privacy Champion

Step 2. Train Privacy Awareness

Step 3. Reasonable Safeguards

Step 4. Monitor to Prevent Snooping

Step 5. Consequences When Employees Snoop

When we know better, we do better

Download the Practice Management Success Tip, ‘5 Steps To Prevent Employee Snooping'.

The Practice Management Success Tip, 5 Steps to Prevent Employee Snooping, will help you

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Announcing Virtual Health Privacy Summit

Privacy and Security In Telehealth Summit

Wednesday October 21, 2020

Keynote – Dr. Kale MatovichNatural Way Chiropractic

Dr. Angela MulrooneyUnleashing Influence

Anne GengeAlexio Corporation

Jean L. EatonInformation Managers Ltd.

Lauren SergyUp Front Communication

We are Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champions!

How do you keep privacy active in the minds of your clinic staff?

Start a privacy awareness training program

Listen to podcasts or watch YouTube videos on privacy awareness during a team meeting

Take a Privacy Awareness Training course as a team

Become a Practice Management Success member

Subscribe to Privacy Nuggets Newsletter

CyberSecurity Awareness Month

When we know better, we can do better…

Merging Your Healthcare Practice – PIA Considerations

5 Important Steps Before You Merge Or Close Your Healthcare Practice To Ensure Your Continued Privacy Compliance

Inventory All Your Existing Patient Records

Patient Records Systems

Agreements

Existing Documents

Privacy Impact Assessment Plan

Related Resources

Emerging Privacy Management Practices in Health Care

Speakers:

NEW! Privacy Awareness in Healthcare Training – Dental Practices

Privacy Awareness Training for Dental Practices

If You Are A

You Need Privacy Awareness in Healthcare Training – Dental Practices

Interactive Online Learning Experience provided by Corridor Interactive

$30 per subscription

Give your staff the knowledge and tools they need to apply policy in their day-to-day work AND prevent a privacy breach with privacy awareness training.

Privacy Awareness in Healthcare Training – Dental Practices

This self-paced on-line education includes:

Keynote – Dr. Kale Matovich
Natural Way Chiropractic

Dr. Angela Mulrooney
Unleashing Influence

Anne Genge
Alexio Corporation

Jean L. Eaton
Information Managers Ltd.

Lauren Sergy
Up Front Communication