Patient confidentiality: Beyond HIPAA and FERPA

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Abstract:
The Professional Responsibility Work Group identified the following relevant issues in a 2015 survey: 1.47% of respondents reported learning about LER (legal, ethical and regulatory) issues while engaging in clinical practice. 2.25% of respondents reported witnessing breaches in confidentiality in the last 12 months. 3.84% of respondents believe that lack of knowledge leads to non-adherence. 4.94% of respondents thought that LER continuing education would be helpful. 5. About 60% of respondents thought that confidentiality is the most significant LER issue facing athletic trainers today.

Objectives:

  • Participants will be able to compare HIPAA and FERPA. Also be able to identify how these laws apply in athletic trainers' specific clinical roles., 
  • Participants will be able to examine how workers compensation and the professional sports leagues rules intersect with HIPAA.

Level:
Essential

Domains:
Domain 5: Health Care Administration and Professional Responsibility

CEUs:
0.75 Category A

Keywords: patient confidentiality, HIPAA, FERPA, workers compensation, legal, ethical, regulatory

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Courses registered for after February 5, 2025, must be completed by December 31, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. CST.
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Kevin Stalsberg, MS, ATC

Kevin Stalsberg is currently an outreach athletic trainer for the University of Kansas Health Systems and provides healthcare to Shawnee Mission North High School in Overland Park, KS. Kevin received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and was part of the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga’s inaugural graduate athletic training class. Over the last 22 years, he has worked in a variety of clinical settings including the collegiate and professional settings. For the last 11 years, he has been practicing as a secondary school athletic trainer. In addition to his clinical responsibilities at the high school, Kevin contracts as a Football Medical Observer for Texas Health Sports Medicine covering Kansas State University. Kevin has presented a number of lectures on patient confidentiality at district and state meetings, as well as in college classes. In addition to his presentations, Kevin has given interviews to ImPact Applications, local Kansas City TV stations and newspapers in Chicago on a variety of topics. Kevin is the District 5 representative to the NATA Professional Responsibility in Athletic Training Committee and is the chair of the awards sub-committee for the PRAT.

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