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Join EthiQal for an Ethics Webinar: HPCSA Booklet #9: Ethical Record Keeping in the Digital Age

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Ethical patient record keeping is essential to modern healthcare, ensuring safe, effective, and trustworthy care. Accurate documentation supports continuity, clinical decision-making, and legal accountability, while also carrying ethical importance by safeguarding sensitive information with honesty, confidentiality, and respect. Poor record keeping can decrease patient outcomes, create confusion, impact multidisciplinary collaboration, and create legal risk.

Managing records ethically protects patient privacy and autonomy while allowing patients access and control over their health data. With the growth of digital health technologies, new challenges such as data security, electronic informed consent, and cybersecurity have emerged. Breaches or cyberattacks can erode trust, discourage information sharing, and disrupt care delivery, highlighting the need to balance accessibility with strong safeguards.

 Join our expert speaker panel to explore how you can effectively manage your patient records to ensure integrity and continue to build trust vital to patient-centred healthcare. 

During this webinar, attendees will review the HPCSA Booklet 9: Guidelines on the keeping of patient health records where the pertinent South Africa laws and basic principles around ethical practices for maintaining patient health records are laid out. The webinar will offer insights into both paper and electronic record-based practices.

The audience will have an opportunity to engage with faculty who offer insights from a clinical, legal, medical malpractice insurance, cybersecurity, and medical practice setup and management perspective through short lectures, interactive case studies, a series of multiple choices questions and Q&A sessions.

This webinar will focus on specialist practices. Administrative staff working in these practices are welcome to join the discussion.

Seats are limited.

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Webinar: Navigating the New HPCSA Booklet 19: The Ethics of Billing | 2 CPD Points

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The healthcare sector is most effective when all stakeholders behave professionally and uphold ethical principles. Unethical practices are evident when stakeholders violate moral principles, ethical practices and organisational standards resulting in reduced productivity, decreased patient outcomes, increased patient risk and cost, fraud, and wastage.

Ethical practice is however linked to cultural values, context and workplace norms. As such, what may be viewed as unethical in one situation could be viewed as ethical practice in another. Unethical behaviour may therefore be unintentional and hence the importance of having clear guidelines on how to act in specific situations.

During this recorded webinar, healthcare providers will review the newly released HPCSA Booklet 19: Guidelines for Health Practitioners on Matters Relating to Ethical Billing Practices where the pertinent South African laws and basic principles around ethical billing practices are laid out. The live audience had an opportunity to engage with faculty who offered a clinical (Dr Simon Strachan, paediatrician in private practice and CEO of South African Private Practitioners Forum), legal (Deniro Pillay, Norton Rose Fulbright Admitted Attorney in the medical law and malpractice litigation sector), HPCSA (Mr Mpho Mbodi, HPCSA Head of Professional Practice division), medical malpractice insurance (Dr Hlombe Makuluma, EthiQal Medicolegal Advisor) perspective through short lectures, interactive case studies, a series of multiple choices questions (MCQs) and Q&A sessions.  

Healthcare professionals who watch this full webinar are entitled to claim 2 ethics CPD points. Instructions on how to claim points are covered in the webinar recording.

Watch the webinar at this link:  https://ethiqal.co.za/webinars/

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Earn CPD Points with EthiQal’s Webinar on Record Keeping

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On Wednesday 5 June at 18:00, EthiQal cordially invites you to attend their ethics webinar, “Documenting care: Effective record-keeping and requests for records”.

Hosted by Dr Hlombe Makuluma, Medicolegal Advisor at EthiQal, this webinar will be co-presented by two admitted attorneys, Mashooma Parker and Jessica Viljoen, who are both legal advisors within the claims team at EthiQal. The 90-minute session will cover compliance for record-keeping requirements as well as dealing with requests for patient records from patients and third parties.

Participants will gain valuable insights to ethically enhance their practice’s visibility and reach, fostering responsible and compliant advertising practices.

Mashooma Parker is a skilled Legal Advisor within the Claims & Legal team at EthiQal, specialising in medical malpractice. With a strong background in the legal field and a passion for assisting healthcare practitioners, Mashooma brings a wealth of expertise to navigate the complexities that arise with patients and third parties. Hosting the first topic, She will cover the requirements for healthcare practitioners to ensure quality record-keeping compliance with Booklet 9 of the HPCSA’s Ethical Guidelines.

Jessica Viljoen is an admitted attorney and legal advisor specialising in professional indemnity insurance for healthcare practitioners, and medical malpractice law. With her extensive experience within the medico-legal space, including her years of litigation experience, Jessica leverages her industry knowledge to provide legal advice and assistance to all specialties of medical practitioners throughout South Africa. She will present the second part of the talk, which will deal with Patient and Third-party requests for patient records and how to ensure compliance with the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000.

The speakers will offer some useful tips from a medico-legal risk management perspective for health practitioners to be cognisant of, as well as to work through some practical examples to illustrate the importance of the topic.

At least one hour’s attendance on the Zoom Platform is required to earn CPD points, and for those unable to watch it live, a recording will be made available.

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