Mark R. Brengelman
This webinar starts with some basic HIPAA privacy requirements and then diverts to initiate an introduction to a review of the law enforcement exceptions that allow state civil investigative agencies and criminal prosecutors to exploit HIPAA rules for various law enforcement purposes to obtain medical records of abortion.
The federal government has now tightened these law enforcement exception loopholes and resolved various conflict of laws issues between the states – where one state may outlaw abortion and the other state may allow it. Can one travel back and forth for abortion care?
Attendees should have a basic understanding of HIPAA and how state agencies and law enforcement investigate for alleged violations of law, which now include a woman’s right to choose in states where abortion is illegal.
In the post-Roe vs. Wade healthcare world, healthcare practitioners must understand how HIPAA privacy applies to their medical records of abortion, as well as the law enforcement exceptions which may swallow the rule.
Attempting to close these loopholes, new federal HIPAA protections are in place for medical records regarding reproductive health care, including abortion.
Learning Objectives
Background
This intermediate webinar covers HIPAA confidentiality for medical records, specifically ones that involve abortion as health care and reproductive health care.
Why Should You Attend
Erase the fear, uncertainty, and doubt about what the new federal HIPAA rule does or does not allow.
Who Should Attend
Healthcare attorneys; corporate compliance officers in health care; medical records staff of medical offices and healthcare entities; hospital attorneys; health care practitioners who are covered entities; law enforcement officers in health care compliance; state boards and agencies with jurisdiction over state licenses to practice a health care profession.
Mark R. Brengelman became interested in law when he graduated with both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Philosophy from Emory University in Atlanta. He earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Kentucky College of Law. Mark became an Assistant Attorney General in Kentucky in the area of administrative and professional law as the assigned counsel and prosecuting attorney to numerous health professions licensure boards.
