Individuals' Rights under HIPAA to Access their Health Information

Title: Individuals' Rights under HIPAA to Access their Health Information

Presenter: Myson L. Joseph, MHA/INF, RHIA, CSSWB, PMEC, Consultant at MLJ Consultancy LLC

Time: 1.03 hours

Description: Giving individuals easy access to their health information is a core component of a patient-centered healthcare system, engaging patients in their health and well-being, and improving record integrity. This webinar helps you understand an individual's right under HIPAA to access their health information, attending inclusions, exclusions, requests, and grounds for denial under the Privacy Rule.

Objectives:

• Understand an individual's right under HIPAA to access their health information.

• Learn what is included and excluded from the right of access.

• Discuss personal representatives, including for minors.

• Understand requests for access and providing access.

• Recognize grounds for denial of access.
• Review state laws.

   

Key Topics:

• Benefits of Individuals' Right Under HIPAA to Access Their Health Information
• General Right
• The Designated Record Set
• Information Excluded From the Right of Access
• Personal Representatives
  •  Background Information
  •  General Provisions
  •  How the Rule Works
  •  Who Must Be Recognized as the Individual's Personal Representative
• Parents and Unemancipated Minors
• Abuse, Neglect, and Endangerment Situations
• Requests for Access
  •  Requiring a Written Request
  •  Verification
  •  Unreasonable Measures
• Providing Access: Form and Format and Manner of Access
• Timeliness in Providing Access
• Fees for Copies
• Denial of Access
  • Grounds for Denial
  •  Carrying Out the Denial
  •  Review of Denial
• •  Individual's Right to Direct the PHI to Another Person
• •  State Laws

Speaker

Myson L. Joseph, MHA/INF, RHIA, CSSWB, PMEC, Consultant at MLJ Consultancy LLC, brings over 11 years of Health Information Management leadership experience, within different healthcare settings.

He holds a Master's degree in Health Administration, with a concentration in Informatics from University of Phoenix, and a Bachelor's degree in Health Information Management from Saint Louis University. He is a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) with a passion for consulting about HIPAA.

Myson Joseph has served as Privacy Officer for healthcare organizations of different settings throughout his career, and currently is serving as the Privacy Officer at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC).

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