Subscriber price: $25.00, Non-subscriber price: $30.00
Estimated total study time: 40 minutes
The HIPAA training course helps teach HR managers and employees HIPAA privacy laws. The HIPAA compliance training program helps companies involved in the healthcare industry better protect the security of personal information and patient data. HIPAA compliance is essential in 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 privacy and security requirements on healthcare providers and their business associates.
Newly revised federal regulations regarding HIPPA laws require "covered entities"—healthcare providers, health insurance plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and "business associates" who contract with these entities—to create and implement information-security policies covering protected health information that is electronically transmitted or maintained. The work needed to comply with HIPAA laws and regulations presents a tremendous challenge for all organizations that handle healthcare information.
This 40-minute HIPAA training course explains the basic principles of HIPAA privacy laws in simple, understandable terms. The HIPAA training course includes pop-quizzes, news clippings and a final quiz highlighting real-world HIPAA compliance issues that employees should learn to recognize and respond to appropriately. The HIPAA training course includes these topics: