Social Media for Healthcare Providers
Learn to use social media effectively in healthcare while ensuring HIPAA compliance, avoiding legal pitfalls, and understanding privacy and security rules.
Brief Summary
This course dives into how healthcare folks can use social media safely and smartly while sticking to HIPAA guidelines. We’ll chat about mistakes to avoid and how to share patient info without crossing any lines. A must for anyone in the health industry!
Key Points
- Teach effective and responsible social media use in healthcare.
- Highlight HIPAA rules for transmitting patient information.
- Identify common mistakes that can lead to serious penalties.
- Understand the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule in the context of social media.
- Recognize the benefits of social media communications for healthcare pros.
Learning Outcomes
- Know how to use social media without risking patient privacy.
- Avoid legal troubles related to health information sharing.
- Grasp the difference between what’s okay to share and what’s not.
- Understand the advantages of being active on social media.
- Learn the ins and outs of HIPAA rules regarding endorsements.
About This Course
Social media and HIPPA compliance training for covered entities that transmit health information.
HIPAA Compliant Social Media Practices
In this course for the health care industry, we’re going to teach you how to use social media effectively and responsibly. We’ll show you how other health care professionals are using social networks and point out mistakes that could lead to lawsuits, fines, penalties and potentially even incarceration.
The US Dept. of Health and Human Services has issued rules on how health care providers, health plans and health care clearing houses and their Business Associates transmit patient health information. That’s the focus of this course.
Learn the key takeaways health care professionals need to know if they decide to use social media for work.
This course covers how health care professionals can use social media effectively and responsibly and points out mistakes that can lead to lawsuits, fines, penalties and incarceration.
How the HIPAA Privacy Rule and HIPAA Security Rule apply to social networking
Understand the advantages and benefits of social media communications to health care professionals
Learn about permitted disclosures, the minimum necessary requirement and rules on endorsements
Course Curriculum
4 Lectures
9 Lectures
Instructor

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Ayuketah P. O.
It was helpful but would have loved to have a comparison of health protection and privacy laws in other continents.