Social Media Compliance for Healthcare Organizations

Why Should You Attend:

• How does your practice use social media?
• How do your employees use it?
• Do you have policies in place to use social media without violating HIPAA regulations?
• Are your staff well trained in Do’s and Don’ts of Social Media use?

Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn are increasingly being used by health care organizations to engage with patients and physicians, build brands, and communicate information to the larger community. Many healthcare organizations are using social media to upload inappropriate posts and subsequently triggering data breaches.

This webinar will cover regulations under the HIPAA/HITECH act that can be applied to social media usage. We will discuss risks and pitfalls and educate particpants on HIPAA compliant usage of social media in your healthcare setting. You will learn how to avoid HIPPA violations that arise from improper usage of social media and the resulting penalties and lawsuits.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• HIPAA/HITECH Privacy regulations.
• Ways in which physicians use social media.
• Ways in which the Healthcare Organizations use social media.
• Risks involved in using Social Media.
• Best practices to follow while using social media without violating HIPAA.
• Essential ePHI elements to avoid in the social media sites.
• Training essentials for the Healthcare staff on using social media.

Who will Benefit:

This webinar will provide valuable assistance to all healthcare organizations covered by HITECH Act. The individuals who will benefit include:

• Chief Information Officer
• Chief Financial Officer
• Privacy officer
• Security officer
• Compliance officer
• Physicians
• Office managers
• Front office personnel
• Marketing and content writing personnel

Instructor Profile:

Srini Kolathur, HITPro, CISSP,CISA, CISM, MBA is a result-driven leader. Srini has several years of experience in helping companies effectively meet and exceed regulatory compliance requirements including SoX, PCI, HIPAA, etc. by using best practices.

For the last several years, he has been actively involved in Sarbox controls implementation, PCI-DSS, GRC and internal audit functions in the critical general IT control areas. As internal compliance and audit liaison project manager for Cisco infrastructure group, Srini has managed compliance and automation projects, including developing tracking systems for monitoring privileged user access.

Srini has been involved in providing training to staffs at small practices and hospitals so they can effectively comply with HIPAA/HITECH and meaningful use security requirements by using NIST risk assessment framework, HHS HIPAA checklist and best practices for IT assessment.

Srini graduated with an executive MBA degree from Kenan-flagler business school at UNC Chapel Hill. Srini is very active in the local ISACA and ISSA chapters. Srini believes in and advocates best practices-based security and compliance program to achieve business objectives. Srini has a long and successful track record of bringing in projects on time and on budget, and developing high performance teams, while boosting technical and business expertise, and maintaining high morale.

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