
Protecting Patient Privacy in the Healthcare Setting
Learn healthcare privacy laws (HIPAA & HITECH) to handle patient health information correctly and prevent breaches. Stay compliant and protect patient privacy.

About this course
Pharmacy staff, regardless of practice setting, must access patient health information on a daily basis in order to perform their jobs. It is critical that they act in accordance with the law when interacting with and sharing patient-protected health information, or they could face action from their employer or their law, and their employer could face fines and lose the trust of the public. In order to prevent a breach of privacy, the pharmacy staff must understand privacy laws. This CE activity will provide in-depth coverage of healthcare privacy law, focusing on HIPAA and HITECH. It will provide a background and history of those laws, review who must comply and what the requirements are, and use case studies and examples to discuss appropriate and inappropriate disclosure of PHI. At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be confident in handling PHI in accordance with federal law and appropriately reporting breaches of PHI. Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians will appreciate the requirements of businesses that handle PHI.
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Instructors

Alex Evans is a pharmacist and medical writer based in Jacksonville, FL. He is currently serving as a pharmacy project manager for Ascension Health, where he assists with retail operations and compliance. ​ ​Alex was part of the UCSF-Safeway national campaign launch to AAR at every pharmacy encounter and served as Safeway’s media representative for the state of Hawai’i. ​ ​He received his Doctor of Pharmacy from UNC-Chapel Hill and MBA from West Texas A and M University.​
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