| On Friday August 28, 2020 we were honored to be joined by special guests U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. (Louisiana) and Mr. Timothy Noonan, Deputy Director for Health Information Privacy at Office for Civil Rights (OCR), under Health and Human Services (HHS) for our Zoom Cast on “Making Sense of HIPAA”. Some viewers experienced technical difficulties during the broadcast. This was due to over all internet issues beyond our control. However, we invite you to rewatch the broadcast at this link: Making Sense of HIPAA Who better to give a presentation on when compassionate communication can, or cannot, be shared between covered entities and family members than someone within the office that writes and enforces the rules? The powerpoint presentation by Mr. Noonan is available for download here: Making Sense of HIPAA: PowerPoint Presentation |
 “In the entire history of the enforcement program…we have not pursued an enforcement action against a healthcare provider that exercises professional judgement that a serious and imminent threat existed and so they made the decision to disclose the health information or…they determined the patient was unconscious, incapacitated, or absent and that in the best interest of the patient they chose to share health information with the patient’s family members.” –Tim Noonan, Deputy Director, Office of Civil Rights We encourage our audience to visit fact sheets and materials for consumers. These can be accessed on the HHS website at: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/mental-health/index.html. Let us know if you think additional materials would be helpful and we will pass along. Next up in our 2020 Zoom Cast Series focusing on serious mental illness is: “Streamlining Inpatient & Outpatient Care” on September 4th. Now open for general registration. We look forward to continuing these discussions! As my co-host Eric Smith would say, “thank you all for taking part in this serious conversation about serious mental illness for serious change….and please remember, this is NOT where the conversation ends, it’s where it begins.” Send comments and questions, concerns and praise, to HealingMindsNOLA@gmail.com Healing Minds NOLA is a 501c3 non-profit charitable & educational organization dedicated to identifying & creating alternatives to incarceration, homelessness and early death for seriously mentally people. — Copyright © 2020 *HEALING MINDS NOLA*, All rights reserved. Janet Hays President – Healing Minds NOLA (504) 274 6091 |
