Care thrives on trust – and trust thrives on discretion. This course (approx. 12 teaching units of 45 minutes each) shows in 12 modules how to protect health data in compliance with the law: from the legal bases (the EU General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR (DSGVO), the German Federal Data Protection Act – BDSG – and social data protection) and the duty of confidentiality under section 203 of the German Criminal Code (StGB), including the question of when you may or must pass on information, to data subject rights, data security in everyday practice, the use of messengers, email, mobile phones and photos, requests for information from relatives, and dealing with data breaches and reporting them. Each module offers learning objectives, well-founded study text, an In depth section, a case study and a transfer-to-practice exercise. At the end: self-reflection, checklists and your confirmation of participation. The course is no substitute for legal advice but provides professionally sound orientation.
Course objectives:
- Confidently place the legal bases of data protection in care
- Recognise and handle health data as a specially protected category
- Understand the duty of confidentiality and its limits (authorisation to disclose)
- Know data subject rights and put them into practice in everyday work
- Ensure data security in everyday practice and in digital communication
- Recognise data breaches, respond correctly and report them
Self-study without supervision, assignments or assessment of learning progress by instructors; the voluntary self-reflection is for your own orientation only. Your confirmation of participation becomes available once you have marked all modules as done yourself.
Scope: 12 modules of about 45 minutes each (approx. 12 teaching units of 45 minutes each, about 9 hours).