HIPAAShield™ HIPAA Training
(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
HIPAAShield™ is available to assist your enterprise projects and initiatives.
Please contact our toll free at 877.899.9974 x17 for more information and consulting costs.
The HIPAAShield™ Solution Team is excited to offer a training solution that will help organizations train their entire work population in a timely and cost effective manor. The HIPAAShield™ Compliancy Training is devoted to helping organizations meet the Administrative Simplification Act section 164.530(b)(1). This section requires employers to provide HIPAA awareness and "Job Role" policy training. Our course is designed to reach all level of employees from providers to billing clerks to housekeeping.
If you are interested in a evaluating the actual course please contact Lorna Waggoner at 877-899-9974 x17 for your free 45-day trial and Login ID.
Health Care Compliance Association (AAPC) / Healthcare Compliance Certification Board (HCCB)
The following courses have recently been accredited for between 1.2 and 3.6 HCCB CE credits through the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA):
Professional Compliance (3.6 CE credits)
Corporate Compliance (3.6 CE credits)
HIPAA Compliance (3.6 CE credits)
Bioterrorism & Disaster Preparation (1.2 CE credits)
Patient Safety (1.2 CE credits)
JCAHO Accreditation Process and Tracer Methodology (1.2 CE credits)
Patient Rights (1.2 CE credits)
Infection Control (1.2 CE credits)
Documentation for Quality Care (1.2 CE credits)
Patient Education (1.2 CE credits)
Competency for Quality Care (1.2 CE credits)
Reducing Medication Errors (1.2 CE credits)
Organizational Performance Improvement (1.2 CE credits)
Note that many of our courses are also accredited for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. The above credit information in independent of any CME credit offerings
HIPAAShield™ HIPAA Training Course Outline
Introduction
Four common HIPAA dilemmas presented as scenarios
Brief history of HIPAA regulations
Module I - HIPAA
Awareness
Brief overview of HIPAA Administrative Simplifications (AS).
Introduction of key AS concepts:
Covered Entities
Protected Health Information (PHI)
Notice of Privacy Practices
Privacy and Security Policy and Procedure Development
Reasonable Safeguards
Password Protections
Electronic Transaction Formats
Code Sets
Enforcement and Penalties for Violations
Scenarios and exercises
Quiz
Module II - Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health
Information
Privacy Rule Sub-Module
Reviews definitions of key terms
Explains what is included in PHI and IIHI
Explains de-identification
Provides additional Privacy Notice information
Scenarios and exercises
Quiz
Protected Health Information Sub-Module (PHI)
Opens with Privacy Notice scenario
Explains difference between routine and non-routine uses and disclosures of PHI
Explains Authorization Form requirements and when they are needed
Scenarios and exercises
Quiz
Patient Rights Sub-Module
Explains when parents have rights to PHI or unemancipated minors
Explains patient right to access, inspect and/or copy personal PHI and the exceptions to this right
Explains requests by patients to amend PHI
Accounting of non-routine disclosures Restrictions on disclosures
Scenarios and exercises
Quiz
Business Associates (BA) Sub-Module
Explains requirements for BA contracts
Reviews limited covered entity liability for BA misuse of PHI
Quiz
Module III - Standards for Security of Electronic Protected Health Information (Revision released Summer, 2003)
Electronic PHI Security Introduction Sub-Module
Overview of the rule -- introduces three areas of electronic security compliance
Quiz
Administrative Safeguards
Reviews nine administrative safeguard standards
Explains the required and addressable implementation specifications
Scenarios and exercises
Quiz
Physical Safeguards
Reviews four physical safeguard standards
Explains the required and addressable implementation specifications
Scenarios and exercises
Quiz
Technical Security
Reviews five technical
Explains the required and addressable implementation specifications
Scenarios and exercises
Quiz
Module IV - Standards for Electronic Transactions and Code Sets (SETCS)
Electronic Transactions Introduction Sub-Module
Explains implementation deadlines
Eight transaction format categories
Quiz
Implementation Suggestions Sub-Module
Explains importance of information flow
Provides examples of information that should be included in process
Exercise
Quiz
Module V - HIPAA Yearly Compliance Update
An annual update that provides supplementary information about one or more of the HIPAA Rules
Privacy Rule Update Sub-Module (for 2004)
Key Office for Civil Rights (OCR) clarifications about Notices of Privacy Practices and Authorizations
Protected Health Information (PHI) Update Sub-Module (for 2004)
Key OCR clarifications about PHI disclosures to third-parties such as family, friends, employers or clergy
Patient Rights Update Sub-Module (for 2004)
Key OCR clarifications such as Personal Representatives of patients, parental rights and emergency treatment
Business Associates Update Sub-Module (for 2004)
Covers key OCR clarifications about what business associate agreements must cover and to whom they apply
