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Balancing Your Practice:Protecting the Public Health and Preserving Your Patients' Privacy

Course Overview

This online CME activity focuses on balancing the competing interests of patient privacy and the need for public health information and surveillance. Maintaining the public health often requires the disclosure of sensitive health information in order to implement control measures and treatment. Physicians need to know which health information they should disclose and what they are required to reveal under the law. Information will center on complying with those requests while still maintaining confidentiality and fostering a trusting doctor-patient relationship.

The course presentations will open in a separate player window displaying the presentation slides, synchronized audio and transcripts. In order to view this course, you will need:

Click on the link below to begin viewing each presentation. When you are done viewing the presentation, close the window and click CME Exam Instructions in the Course Sections box (top right).

Presentations

Welcome
Vanessa Kenealy, Esq.

The Need for Public Health Information and Surveillance
Alfred DeMaria, Jr., M.D.

Privacy Principles and Bioethics of Medical Practice
Wendy E. Parmet , Esq.

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Course Sections

  1. Course Information  
  2. Start Course 
  3. CME Exam Instructions 
  4. CME Exam 1
  5. CME Exam 2
  6. Patient Education and Resources

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