Overview

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is about insurance portability, fraud, and administrative simplification.  This course examines the Administrative Simplification portion of the HIPAA legislation, addressing HIPAA requirements in the areas of Transactions, Privacy, and Security to achieve HIPAA compliance.  

Objectives

• Understanding how HIPAA requirements necessitate changes in policies, procedures and processes concerning an organization's handling patient records.

• Examining how HIPAA affects the way healthcare entities organize and staff to achieve and monitor compliance with patient privacy and confidentiality requirements.

• Stepping through qualifications and positioning strategies for Privacy and Security Officers.

• Learning why HIPAA compliance is better focused as a business issue rather than an IT issue, although IT plays a major role in implementing HIPAA-compliant systems.

• Reviewing specific requirements and implementation features within each HIPAA security category.

• Stepping through planning for HIPAA compliance.  HIPAA compliance involves HIPAA awareness, gap analysis, and remediation actions.

• Validation of HIPAA skills and knowledge

• Preparation for the Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP) exam

Audience

• All key members of the enterprise HIPAA team

• Healthcare Executives

• Senior Clinicians

• Chief Information Officers

• Lawyers

• Compliance Officers

• Privacy and Security Officials

• Quality Assurance and Risk Managers

• Insurance Executives

• Physicians and Office Managers

• Pharmaceutical Company Executives

• Clinical Trial Organization Professionals

HIPAA Fundamentals  

• HIPAA Basics
• HIPAA’s Administrative Simplification Title
• HIPAA Penalties
• HIPAA-Related Organizations
• HIPAA Terminology and Definitions
   

HIPAA Transactions, Code Sets and Identifiers  

• Transactions
• ANSI ASC X12 Standard
• Code Sets
• National Health Care Identifiers
   

HIPAA Privacy Rule  

• Introduction
• Key Definitions
• Notice Requirement
• Consent Requirement
• Authorization Requirement
• Key Parties Impacted
• Minimum Necessary
• Oral Communications
• Parents and Minors
• Communications and Marketing
• Research
• Government Access
   

HIPAA Security Rule  

• Threats
• Definition and Terminology
• Security and Electronic Signatures
• Administrative Procedures
• Physical Safeguards
• Technical Security Services
• Technical Security Mechanisms
• Electronic Signatures
• Security Management
   

Crafting a Plan - Implementation  

• HIPAA Team
• Enterprise Assessment
• Preparation Initiatives
• Implementation
• Auditing and Enforcement
• Developing Compliance Strategy
• Key Steps for HIPAA Transaction Compliance
• Key Steps for HIPAA Privacy Compliance
• Key Steps for HIPAA Security Compliance

 
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