Webinar: HIPAA Regulations and Sharing Sensitive Information about Clients with Dementia

Date/Time: September 27, 2017 from 2-3 p.m. ET

Webinar Description:  The goal of this web seminar is to review how HIPAA and its Privacy Rule permits the sharing of patient information with family members, friends and caregivers, as well as the components of the HIPAA right-of-access and ways in which it enables individuals and their caregivers to be more involved in their own care.

Participants in this web seminar will be able to:

• Understand how HIPAA permits the sharing of patient information with one’s “personal representative,” family members, friends and caregivers;
• Describe how and when protected health information may be used and shared;
• List the components of the HIPAA access right, including an individual’s ability to direct a copy of their health information to a third party; and,
• Describe how the HIPAA right of access enables individuals and their caregivers to become more involved in their care.

Additional information about this webinar and the registration link can be found here:

http://asaging.org/web-seminars/hipaa-regulations-and-sharing-sensitive-information-about-clients-dementia

For this webinar series, the Administration for Community Living’s National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center has partnered with the American Society on Aging.

Please note, complimentary CEUs are available through this webinar. In addition, the webinar will be recorded and available for viewing at nadrc.acl.gov.