FREE Foundations in Privacy Toolkit Now Available

FREE Foundations in Privacy Toolkit now available

MN Dept. of Health (MDH) announced that Gray Plant Mooty (GPM), a MN law firm, has developed a “Foundations in Privacy Toolkit” to help address many of the common legal and operational challenges of exchanging patient health information amongst different providers in Minnesota. MDH funded GPM’s project to analyze legal barriers and develop the toolkit. The toolkit and other health information privacy resources are available here: http://www.health.state.mn.us/e-health/privacy/index.html.  

The toolkit contains the following types of material, organized by subject area:

·         Template policies and procedures

·         Template agreements

·         Flow charts

·         Checklists

The policy and procedure documents are available in multiple formats that can be customized and implemented as part of an organization’s privacy compliance efforts. The flow charts and checklists can be used to analyze business relationships and unique disclosure situations, the template agreements can be used to guide negotiations and simplify execution, and all the documents can be used in workforce training.

Gray Plant Mooty also has the following webinar trainings available:

The Foundations in Privacy Toolkit (recorded February 17, 2017) (play webinar)

HIPAA Breach Analysis (recorded March 14, 2017) (play webinar)