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The HIPAA Compliance Course provides HIPAA Training for Health Care Professionals including a comprehensive overview of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) from a healthcare professional's viewpoint. The course focuses specifically on the HIPAA Privacy regulations, which are the major focus of most healthcare providers. HIPAA Compliance also includes an overview of HIPAA regulations. This course was designed to satisfy the mandatory training component of HIPAA Privacy for a healthcare organization's staff.
NOTE: This course is set up for four people, each spending three hours in training.

Upon registering, you are given an initial six months to complete the program. Should you need more time, you may request a 6-month extension at no additional charge.

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of the HIPAA course, students will:

  ·  Understand what HIPAA is.
  ·  Learn the purpose of HIPAA.
  ·  Understand the key features of HIPAA.
  ·  Understand what entities are affected by HIPAA.
  ·  Appreciate the types of standards HIPAA affects and understand the areas affected by the standards' proposed rules.
  ·  Understand the purpose of electronic standardization of transactions, code sets, and unique identifiers.
  ·  Recognize the difference between privacy and security.
  ·  Appreciate the impact of new privacy rules related to HIPAA.
  ·  Understand the cost and savings associated with HPAA.
  ·  Learn the implementation of dates for compliance and penalties for noncompliance to HIPAA regulations.
  ·  Understand how HIPAA will impact personnel and organizations.
  ·  Understand the general process to implement HIPAA compliance in each organization.

  · Introduction to HIPAA

  ·  What is HIPAA?
  ·  Overview
  ·  Insurance Reform
  ·  Administrative Simplifications
  ·  Purpose of Administrative Simplifications
  ·  Who is Affected by HIPAA?
  ·  Penalties for Noncompliance

  ·  Transactions, Code Sets, and Identifiers

  ·  Background
  ·  Transaction Standards
  ·  Code Sets
  ·  Unique Identifiers
  ·  Quiz

  ·  Privacy

  ·  Privacy vs. Security
  ·  Privacy Standards Background
  ·  Privacy Standards
  ·  Scope of Privacy Standards
  ·  Administrative Requirements of Privacy
  ·  Penalties for Noncompliance
  ·  Disclosures of PHI
  ·  Individual Patient Rights
  ·  Notice, Consent, and Authorization
  ·  Disclosure Exceptions
  ·  Minimum Necessary Disclosures
  ·  Incidental Use and Disclosures
  ·  De-Identification
  ·  Quiz

  ·  Security

  ·  Background of Security Standards
  ·  Purpose of Security Standards
  ·  Security Standards
  ·  Quiz

  ·  Implementation of HIPAA

  ·  Compliance Dates for Standards
  ·  Implication of Noncompliance
  ·  Keys to Success for HIPAA Compliance
  ·  Making Your Organization HIPAA Compliant
  ·  Quiz

  ·  Final Exam