HIPAA Privacy and Security Certification Training
This 2-4 days classroom training program focuses on the implications of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) legislation and critical compliance requirements for your business/client.
Learning Objectives
- Understand what HIPAA means, how it affects your organization, and significant changes in policies, procedures and processes within the organization in the handling of patient records.
- Understand the federal program for meaningful use and incentives for adopting electronic health records.
- Understand the current and potential uses of social media, mobile technologies and big data in health care with the privacy and security risks and challenges.
- Identify the main reasons behind HIPAA, specifically, to provide continuity/portability of health benefits to individuals between jobs; to combat fraud/abuse in health insurance and health care delivery; to reduce administrative costs in health_care; to provide uniform standards for electronic health care transactions; and, to ensure security and privacy of patient health information.
- Gain an in-depth understanding of HIPAA Security, Privacy and Transaction rule.
- Understand who Business Associates are and what will they have to do to ensure HITECH HIPAA compliance.
- Examine how implementing HIPAA will affect the way health care entities organize and staff to achieve and monitor compliance with patient privacy/confidentiality needs.
- Understand the new Enforcement rule.
- Review specific requirements and implementation features within each security category.
- Learn how to plan and prepare for HIPAA compliance.
- Understand all required and addressable HIPAA Security implementation specifications.
- Review core elements of a security policy document for a health care entity.
- Review specific requirements and implementation features within each security category.
- Identify core elements of a compliance plan that every health care entity is required to develop for business continuity and disaster recovery.
High Level Course Outline
- HIPAA Fundamentals
- HIPAA Privacy Rule
- HIPAA Security Rule
- Enforcement Rule
- Omnibus Rule of January 2013