GISTnet HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance (Employee Health Insurance)

HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance (Employee Health Insurance)

Non-subscriber price: $30.00, Subscriber price: $25.00

This training covers employee privacy and security of information under the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

The privacy and security of personal information is something everyone should be concerned about. This is especially true in the area of healthcare, where individuals share details of their health, personal lives and finances when they are at their most vulnerable. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ("HIPAA") addresses these issues by imposing stringent record-keeping and security requirements on healthcare providers and related entities. The regulations require uniform coding for the electronic transmission of patient data.

In addition, the regulations require "covered entities" — healthcare providers, health insurance plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and those who contract with these entities — to create and implement privacy and security policies covering all patient data that is electronically transmitted or maintained (along with all paper counterparts). The work needed to comply with these regulations presents a tremendous challenge for all organizations that handle healthcare information.

Program Summary

This program explains the HIPAA regulations pertaining to the privacy and security of healthcare information. The topics covered in the program include:

Overview of HIPAA
Covered entities
Covered transactions
Protected health information (PHI)
The privacy and security rules
Notice of privacy practices
Reasonable safeguards
Other uses of PHI
Administrative safeguards for privacy
Administrative safeguards for security
Physical safeguards for security
Technical safeguards for security
E-mail, faxes and e-faxes
Compliance and enforcement