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2021 HIPAA Privacy & Security Certificate Program
With the enactment of HIPAA's Standards for Privacy and Security of Individually Identifiable Health Information, the responsibility to keep certain health information secure, confidential, and private has become a legally enforceable responsibility of your facility and its employees. In order for your facility to be successfully compliant, all employees must know and understand their responsibilities with regards to privacy and security of protected health information (PHI) in any form (paper, voice, or electronic). In this course, we will discuss HIPAA Privacy and Security and will reinforce HIPAA education by reviewing pertinent terms, definitions and standards.
Upon completion of the 2021 HIPAA Privacy & Security Certificate Program, you should be able to:
- Explain the difference in HIPAA Privacy and HIPAA Security
- Identify individuals, other than the patient, and relationships as defined by the Privacy Rule that a healthcare provider may discuss PHI and situations where consent may or may not be necessary
- Define Protected Health Information (PHI)
- Recognize breaches of HIPAA
- Identify and understand practical behaviors that protect Protected Health Information
- Explain fines and penalties for HIPAA violations
- Apply privacy standards brought about by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule
- Identify the medical record as protected and confidential information
- Apply the hospital's policy on patient confidentiality
- Recognize examples and repercussions of patient-confidentiality breaches
- Identify what information can be released without prior approval from the patient
- Recognize what the HIPAA Security Rule requires at your facility
- Identify where to go for questions and answers
- State the basic security concepts at your facility
- Apply security "best practices" to safeguard ePHI
- Apply security policies related to your job
- Recognize that all staff play a role in protecting ePHI
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