2019 - Texting and Mobile Devices in Healthcare - HIPAA and CMS Requirements for Security of PHI

Find out the ways that patients want to use texting to communicate with providers, and the ways providers want to use texting to enable better patient care.
Learn what are the risks of using texting, what can go wrong, and what can result when it does.
Learn how to use an information security management process to evaluate risks and make decisions about how best to protect PHI and meet patient needs and desires.
Find out about limitations on the use of messages and calls to cell phones under The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991.
Discover how The Joint Commission decided to allow and then withdraw allowing the use of texting for physician orders.
Find out what policies and procedures you should have in place for dealing with texting, as well as any new technology.
Learn about the training and education that must take place to ensure your staff uses texting properly and does not risk exposure of PHI.
Find out the steps that must be followed in the event of a breach of PHI.
Learn about how the HIPAA audit and enforcement activities are now being increased and what you need to do to survive a HIPAA audit.