HIPAA Academy Certification Renewal


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.

Health Care Compliance Association (AAPC) / Healthcare Compliance Certification Board (HCCB)

The following are available in the elearning library:

  • Professional Compliance
  • Corporate Compliance
  • HIPAA Compliance
  • Bioterrorism & Disaster Preparation
  • Patient Safety
  • JCAHO Accreditation Process and Tracer Methodology
  • Patient Rights
  • Infection Control
  • Documentation for Quality Care
  • Patient Education
  • Competency for Quality Care
  • Reducing Medication Errors
  • Organizational Performance Improvement

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
  • Quiz

      Low Cost Per Trainee YES
      Available 24/7 YES
      Interactive Exercises YES
      Content Updated When Rules And Regulations Change YES
      Automated Quizzes And Scoring YES
      Job-Function Specific Learning YES
      Trainees Can Ask Questions YES
      Course Topics Can Be Reviewed Quickly YES
      Completion Certificates Awarded YES
     

    If you are interested in an evaluation of an actual course please contact us at 877-899-9974 x20 or x17.  

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Please email Lorna Waggoner at Lorna.Waggoner@ecfirst.com or call 877.899.9974 x17 with any questions.